It is the intent of this chapter to provide standards for the location and operation of adult entertainment business. This includes all adult oriented businesses including adult arcades, adult bookstores, adult novelty stores, adult video stores, and similar adult uses, adult entertainment parlors and adult live entertainment centers.
(Ord. 995 § 12 (Exh. A), 2015)
Adult entertainment businesses shall conform to the minimum standards of the underlying zone, as well as the following general standards.
A. 
A pre-submission conference shall be required.
B. 
All on-site parking areas and premises entries of adult entertainment uses shall be illuminated from dusk until one hour past closing hours of operation with a lighting system which provides an average maintained horizontal illumination of one foot candle of light on the parking strips and/or walkways. An on-premises exterior lighting plan shall be presented to and approved by the department of community development prior to the operation of any such use.
C. 
All parking must be visible from the fronting street. Access to the exterior rear of the building shall be denied to any persons other than employees or public officials during the performance of their respective duties and tasks by means of fencing as approved by the site plan review committee.
D. 
In addition to the requirements of Chapter 18.60 YMC, the following provisions shall be followed:
1. 
There shall be no electronic reader boards or changing message center signs;
2. 
All adult entertainment businesses shall have facades, exteriors, and exits which must be indistinguishable from surrounding buildings. Illustrations to include silhouettes, depicting partially or totally nude males and/or females shall not be posted or painted on any exterior wall of the building used for such businesses or on any door or apparatus attached to such building.
E. 
No alteration of the configuration of the interior of the adult entertainment business or enlargement of the floor space occupied by the premises may be made after obtaining a license, without the prior approval of the community development department.
F. 
Buffering requirements shall be measured by following a straight line without regard to intervening buildings from the nearest point of the property parcel upon which the proposed use is to be located to the nearest point of the parcel of property or the zone classification boundary line from which the proposed land use is to be separated.
1. 
No adult entertainment business shall be located closer than 660 feet from another adult entertainment business, whether such other business is located within or outside the city limits;
2. 
No such adult entertainment business shall be located closer than 660 feet from the following use or zone, whether such use or zone is located within or outside the city limits:
a. 
All public facilities, including public and private schools, parks, libraries, etc.;
b. 
Property used for state-certified day-care;
c. 
Property used for community teen centers;
d. 
Property used for churches, cemeteries or other religious facilities or institutions;
e. 
Property used for residential and lodging uses and property zoned primarily for residential uses, including R-4, R-6 and R-16 zones;
f. 
Property used for organizations, associations, facilities and businesses which provide, as a substantial portion of their activities, function or business, the provision of services to children and/or youth, so that the premises of the organization, facility or business would have children and youth in attendance or at the location during a predominant portion of the operational hours of an adult entertainment facility.
(Ord. 995 § 12 (Exh. A), 2015)
This chapter does not prohibit video stores that sell and/or rent only video tapes or other graphic reproductions when 20 percent or less of its stock in trade or revenue comes from the rental or sale of video tapes or other photographic reproductions considered adult, plays, operas, musicals, or other dramatic works, classes, seminars and lectures which are held for serious scientific or educational purposes, exhibitions, performances, expressions and/or dances that are not obscene.
These exemptions do not apply to sexual conduct described in RCW 7.48A.010. Whether or not activity is obscene shall be judged by consideration of the standards set forth in RCW 7.48A.010.
(Ord. 995 § 12 (Exh. A), 2015)