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<br />Amarillo, Texas; Garden Grove, California; Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas; Macon-Bibb County,
<br />Georgia; Palm Beach County, Florida; Manatee County, Florida; the findings ofthe Attorney General of
<br />the State of Minnesota; the report of United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
<br />(1986); Jacksonville, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; and "A Summary ofa National Survey of Real Estate
<br />Appraisers Regarding the Effect of AdultBookstores on Property Values," conducted by the Division of
<br />Planning, Department of Metropolitan Development, Indianapolis, January 1984; the publication entitled
<br />"Protecting Communities From Sexually Oriented Businesses" (Southwest Legal Press, Inc.); the
<br />publication entitled "Local Regulation Of AdultBusinesses" (Clmk, Boardman and Callaghan); publications
<br />prepared by the Florida Family Association, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) relatingto the regulation of sexually
<br />oriented businesses and adverse secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses; the" Report to: The
<br />American C enter for Law and Justice on the Secondary Impacts of Sex Oriented Businesses", Peter R.
<br />Hecht, Ph.D. (1996); and the findings offact relating to the AdultEntertainment Code of Orange County,
<br />Florida, a neighboring and contiguous county in Central Florida, and the findings offactrelatingto the
<br />Sexually Oriented Business and AdultEntertainment Establishment Ordinance of Seminole County, Florida,
<br />the county in which the City of Casselberry is located, matters and materials submitted at the public
<br />hearings relating to this Ordinance and other matters and documents relating to all ofthe above; the City
<br />Commission finds:
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<br />(1) Sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments lend themselves to ancillary
<br />unlawful and unhealthy activities that are presently uncontrolled or not adequately controlled by the
<br />operators ofthe establishments orbusinesses. Further, there are presently no mechanisms or inadequate
<br />mechanisms to make the owners of these businesses or establishments responsible for the activities that
<br />occur on their premises.
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<br />(2) Certain workers of certain sexually oriented businesses and adult entertainment establishments
<br />defined in this Article engage in a higher incidence of certain types of illicit sexual behavior than workers
<br />of other business establishments.
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<br />(3) Sexual acts, including masturbation, and oral and anal sex, occur at sexually oriented businesses
<br />and adult entertainment estab lishments, especiall y those which provide private or semi-private areas, booths
<br />or cubicles forviewingfilms, videos, live sex shows and those having physical interaction between workers
<br />and customers.
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<br />(4) Offering and providing such private spaces encourages such previously mentioned activities, which
<br />create unhealthy conditions
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<br />(5) Persons frequentcertainadulttheaters, adult arcades, and other sexually oriented businesses and
<br />adult entertainment estab lishments for the purpose of engaging insex within the premises of such businesses
<br />and establishments
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<br />(6) At least 50 communicable diseases may be spread by activities occurring in sexually oriented
<br />businesses and adult entertainment establishments, including, but not limited to, syphilis, gonorrhea, human
<br />immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV-AIDS), genital herpes, hepatitis B, Non A, NonB amebiasis,
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<br />Ordinance #99-934, Page 5 of 54
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<br />April, 1999
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