Purpose. Within the city it is acknowledged that there are some uses, often referred to as sexually oriented businesses, which because of their nature can have a negative impact on nearby property, particularly when these sexually oriented businesses are concentrated together or located in direct proximity to residential uses, child care centers, churches, cemeteries, schools, libraries, playgrounds, and/or parks. Special regulations for these sexually oriented businesses are necessary to insure that these adverse impacts will not contribute to the blighting of surrounding areas. The primary goal of these regulations is to prevent the concentration or location of these uses in a manner that would exacerbate their adverse effects.
This sexually oriented business standards section applies to the following zoning districts:

(a) Location. A sexually oriented business shall not be located on a property within five hundred feet of any of the following:
(1) Place of worship;
(2) School (preschool, K-12);
(3) Day care center, child or adult;
(4) Park (for purposes of this section, publicly owned multiuse trails shall be deemed to be a park);
(5) Library;
(6) Residential district, including any portion of a planned unit development designated for residential use;
(7) Large-scale multi-tenant nonresidential center;
(8) Cemetery; and
(9) Another sexually oriented business.
(b) Distance Measurements. The distance between a sexually oriented business and established uses outlined in subsection (a), Location, of this section shall be measured from the nearest property line of the property from which spacing is required to the nearest property line on which the sexually oriented business use will be located, using a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or public rights-of-way.
(b) Exterior Display. No sexually oriented business shall be conducted in any manner that permits the observation from any right-of-way of material depicting specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas by display, decoration, sign, show window or other opening. (Ord. 06-24 § 3 (part), 2006).