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<br />WHEREAS, the concern over sexually transmitted diseases is a legitimate health concem of the City <br />which demands reasonab Ie regulation of sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments <br />in order to protect the health and well-being of the citizens of the City of Casselberry; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, licensing is a legitimate and reasonable means of accountability to ensure that operators <br />of sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments comply with reasonableregulations <br />and to ensure that operators do not knowingly allow their establishments to be used as places of illegal <br />sexual activity or solicitation; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, there is convincing documented evidence that sexually oriented businesses and adult <br />entertainment establishments, because of their very nature, have a deleterious effect on both the existing <br />businesses around them and the surrounding residential areas adjacenttothem as well as other public and <br />civic uses, causing increased crime and the downgrading of property values and adverse impacts to <br />economic development and tourist development programs and activities; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is recognized that sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments, <br />due to theirnature, have serious objectionable operational characteristics, particularly when they are <br />located in close proximity to each other, thereby contributing to urban blight and downgrading the quality <br />oflife in the adjacent area; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City Commission desires to minimize and control these adverse effects and thereby <br />protect the health, morals, good order, safety and welfare of the citizenry; protect the citizens from <br />increased crime; preserve the quality oflife; preserve the property values and character of surrounding <br />neighborhoods and deter the spread of urban blight; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City Commission has determined that locational criteria alone do not adequately <br />protect the health, good order, morals, safety and general welfare of the people of this City; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is not the intent of this Ordinance to unreasonably regulate any speech activities <br />protected by the First Amendment, butto enact a content-neutral Ordinance which addresses the adverse <br />secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is notthe intent of the City Commission to condone or legitimize obscene material or <br />any other illegal activity and the City Commission recognizes that state and federal law prohibits the <br />distribution of obscene materials and the Commission expects and encourages local and state law <br />enforcement officials to enforce state obscenity statutes and related statutes against any such illegal activities <br />in the City; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, it is not the intent of this Ordinance to regulate the display of specified anatomical areas <br />incidental to a performance offered by a proprietary school licensed by the State of Florida, a college, <br />community college, university supported partly or entirely by taxation or a private college oruniversity <br />which maintains and operates educational programs in which credits are transferable to a college, <br />community college, or university supported partly or entirely by taxation or in any structure owned by a <br /> <br />Ordinance #99-934, Page 3 of 54 <br /> <br />April, 1999 <br />