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A. Temporary Structures. No sexually oriented business shall be located in any temporary or portable structure.

B. Trash Dumpsters. Trash dumpsters shall be enclosed by a screening enclosure so as not to be accessible to the public.

C. Landscaping. No landscaping shall exceed 30 inches in height, except trees with foliage not less than six feet above the ground.

D. Parking. All off-street parking areas and premises entries of the sexually oriented business shall be illuminated from dusk to closing hours of operation with a lighting system that provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one foot-candle of light on parking surfaces and walkways. The lighting shall be shown on the site plan required by CMC 20.52.020(A)(3).

E. Sound Attenuation. The premises within which the sexually oriented business is located shall provide sufficient sound-absorbing insulation so that noise generated inside the premises shall not be audible anywhere on adjacent property, public rights-of-way or within any separate unit within the same building.

F. Indoor Areas. All indoor areas of the sexually oriented business within which patrons are permitted, except restrooms, shall be open to view by the management at all times.

G. Lighting. All interior areas of the sexually oriented business shall be illuminated at a minimum of the following foot-candles, minimally maintained and evenly distributed at ground level:

Table 20.52-1. 

Area

Foot-candles

Retail Stores

20 (minimum)

Theaters and Cabarets

5 (except during performances, at which times lighting shall be at least 1.25 foot-candles)

Arcades

10

Motels/Hotels

20 (in public areas)

H. Restroom Facilities. The sexually oriented business shall provide and maintain separate restroom facilities for male patrons and employees, and female patrons and employees. Male patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for females, and female patrons and employees shall be prohibited from using the restroom(s) for males, except to carry out duties of repair, maintenance and cleaning of the restroom facilities. The restrooms shall be free from sexually oriented material and sexually oriented merchandise. Restrooms shall not contain television monitors or other motion picture or video projection, recording, or reproduction equipment. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to a sexually oriented business that: (1) is not required to and does not provide restroom facilities to patrons or the general public; and (2) deals exclusively with sale or rental of sexually oriented material or sexually oriented merchandise that is not used or consumed on the premises.

I. Arcades. Sexually oriented arcades shall comply with the following additional requirements:

1. The interior of the premises shall be configured in such a manner that from a manager’s station there is an unobstructed view of every area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. If the premises have two or more designated manager’s stations, then the interior shall be configured in such a manner that from at least one of the manager’s stations there is an unobstructed view of each area of the premises to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. The view required in this section must be direct line of sight from the designated manager’s station.

2. The view specified in subsection (I)(1) of this section shall at all times remain unobstructed by doors, walls, merchandise, display racks, or other materials.

3. The walls or partitions between viewing rooms or booths shall be maintained in good repair at all times. The walls or partitions between viewing rooms or booths shall not contain holes between any two such rooms or booths such as would allow either:

a. Viewing from one room or booth into another; or

b. Physical contact of any kind between the occupants of any two such rooms or booths.

J. Cabarets and Theaters. Sexually oriented cabarets and sexually oriented theaters, except for businesses regulated by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, shall comply with the following additional requirements:

1. Separate dressing room facilities for entertainers, exclusively dedicated to the entertainers’ use, shall be provided.

2. An entrance/exit for entertainers, separate from the entrance/exit used by patrons, shall be provided.

3. Access between the stage and the entertainers’ dressing room facilities, completely separated from the patrons, shall be provided. If such separate access is not physically feasible, a minimum three-foot-wide walk aisle between the entertainers’ dressing room facilities and the stage shall be provided. Such walk aisle shall contain a railing, fence or other barrier separating the patrons and the entertainers. Such railing, fence or other barrier shall be at least 30 inches in height and shall be sufficient to prevent any physical contact between patrons and entertainers. (Ord. 690 § 4 (Exh. A), 2018).