It is recognized that the buildings and establishments
operated as adult entertainment uses have serious objectionable operational
characteristics. In order to promote the health, safety and general
welfare of the residents of the Village of Manlius, this chapter is
intended to restrict adult entertainment uses to industrially zoned
areas of the Village. The Village Board hereby finds that the operational
characteristics of adult entertainment uses increase the detrimental
impact on a community when such uses are spread throughout the community.
The Village Board finds that, based upon common knowledge and experience
and studies conducted by other municipalities, both large and small
(such as Kansas City, Missouri, and the Village of Bergen, New York),
the adult entertainment uses sought to be regulated by this chapter
have been associated with criminal and other socially undesirable
behavior, such as disorderly conduct, prostitution, pornography, drug
trafficking and substance abuse, which have the resulting effects
of depressing property values in the surrounding neighborhood and
increasing the burden upon law enforcement personnel and municipal
expenditures therefor. Therefore, this chapter is intended to promote
the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the Village
of Manlius by regulating the concentration and location of such adult
entertainment uses.
No adult entertainment use shall be conducted
in any manner that permits the observation of the adult entertainment
use from any public way or from any other lot.
A violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II, General Penalty, of the Code.