Wapato City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 17
30 LIVE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT
§ 17.30.010 Purpose.
The purpose of these regulations is to separate certain uses from the secondary effects of adult entertainment businesses by establishing criteria to adequately separate such establishments from neighborhoods, schools, permanent religious institutions, licensed day care facilities and parks, and to regulate signage of the businesses.
(Ord. 1269 § 1(part), 2012)
§ 17.30.020 Restrictions on locations of live adult entertainment businesses.
A.
Applicability. Adult entertainment businesses, as defined in Section 5.30.020, shall be allowed as a conditional use in the commercial districts of the city of Wapato, specifically the B1, B2 and CBD districts, as a Class 2 review. In addition to the standards set forth in the Wapato Municipal Code, the use shall be subject to the following development standards:
1.
Distance Restrictions. It shall be unlawful for anyone to establish a live adult entertainment business or to relocate a live adult entertainment business within five hundred feet, measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects and from the primary entrance doorway of the live adult entertainment business, of any existing live adult entertainment business, public park, child care facility licensed by the state of Washington, preschool, permanent religious institution, or public or private educational facility, including but not limited to public or private elementary, middle or high schools, public or private tutoring locations, or public or private tutoring businesses.
2.
Distance Restrictions from a Residential District. It shall further be unlawful to locate or relocate any live adult entertainment business within five hundred feet, measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects and from the primary entrance doorway of the live adult entertainment business, of any residential district.
B.
Nonconforming Status. The location of a newly established public park, licensed child care facility, permanent religious institution, preschool, or public or private educational facility within five hundred feet, or the establishment of a residential district within five hundred feet, of an existing live adult entertainment business shall not cause the existing live adult entertainment business to be deemed a nonconforming use.
(Ord. 1273 § 1, 2013; Ord. 1269 § 1(part), 2012)