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ORDINANCE 18-1488 <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA, <br />AMENDING THE CITY UNIFIED LAND DEVELOPMENT <br />REGULATIONS, CHAPTER II, DISTRICT AND GENERAL <br />REGULATIONS, ARTICLE V, SECTION 2-5.3, TABLE 2-5.3 LAND USE <br />BY DISTRICT, TO AMEND THE USES PERMITTED IN THE <br />INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS; AND AMENDING ARTICLE VII, <br />GENERAL REGULATIONS, SECTION 2-7.28, INDUSTRIAL -MEDIUM <br />DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES, TO INCLUDE <br />INDUSTRIAL AND TO MODIFY LOCATIONAL CRITERIA AND <br />DESIGN GUIDELINES; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, <br />CONFLICTS, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. <br />WHEREAS, Part III, Chapter II, of the Unified Land Development Regulations (ULDR) <br />establishes zoning districts and general regulations for the use of land within the jurisdictional <br />limits of the City of Casselberry, Florida (City); and <br />WHEREAS, community and neighborhood changes to the area encompassing current <br />Industrial Medium (IM) zoned properties require the rezoning of said IM properties for parks and <br />recreation uses; and <br />WHEREAS, due to the rezoning of these IM zoned properties, it is necessary to amend <br />the ULDR to include adult entertainment establishments and sexually oriented businesses as <br />permitted uses within the Industrial zoning district, if certain distance requirements are met; and <br />WHEREAS, properties zoned for industrial development are required to be designed to <br />minimize negative impacts upon adjacent residential areas and on roadways by incorporating <br />traffic control and urban design measures, including appropriate site design, landscape, and <br />buffering techniques; and <br />WHEREAS, there is convincing documented evidence in the form of current studies and <br />recent case law that sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments, by their <br />use, may have a deleterious effect on the surrounding residential areas adjacent to them through <br />adjacency and potential incompatibility, as well as other public and civic uses, causing increased <br />crime, changes to the residential neighborhood character, and otherwise adverse impacts to non- <br />residential economic development; and <br />WHEREAS, recent studies and case law documenting the adverse secondary effects of <br />adult entertainment establishments and sexually oriented businesses on geographic areas <br />surrounding said establishments include: Using Location Quotients to Test for Negative <br />Secondary Effects of Sexually Oriented Businesses, Eric S. McCord, Cityscape: A Journal of <br />Policy Development and Research, 2014; Does the Presence of Sexually Oriented Businesses <br />Relate to Increased Levels of Crime? An Examination Using Spatial Analysis, Richard <br />Tewksbury and Eric S. McCord, Crime and Delinquency, 2012; Do `Off -Site' Adult Businesses <br />