The Town Council of the Town of Farmington, Connecticut, finds:
A.
The operation of adult-oriented establishments in the Town requires special regulation and supervision by the Town to protect, preserve and promote the health, safety and welfare of the patrons, clients or customers and employees of such establishments, as well as the health, safety and welfare of the Town's citizens. Further, protecting order and morality, preserving the character and preventing the deterioration of the Town's neighborhoods, avoiding blight, decreasing crime and juvenile delinquency, promoting retail trade, maintaining property values and ensuring sanitary and safe public places are desirable objectives of the community and its leaders.
B.
Statistics and studies performed by a substantial number of cities and towns in the United States indicate that:
(1)
Large numbers of persons frequent such adult-oriented establishments, especially those which provide closed booths, cubicles, studios and rooms for the private viewing of so-called “adult motion pictures” and/or videotapes and/or live entertainment;
(2)
Such closed booths, cubicles, studios and rooms have been used by patrons, clients or customers of such adult-oriented establishments for the purpose of engaging in specified sexual activities;
(3)
Male and female prostitutes have been known to frequent such establishments in order to provide sex for hire to the patrons, clients or customers of such establishments within such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms;
(4)
Doors, curtains, blinds and/or other closures installed in or on the entrances and/or exits of such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms which are closed while such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms are in use encourage patrons, clients or customers using such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms to engage in specified sexual activities therein with prostitutes and/or with other persons and/or by themselves, thereby promoting and encouraging prostitution and the commission of specified sexual activities which cause blood, semen, urine or other bodily secretion to be deposited on the floors and/or walls of such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms, which deposits could prove detrimental to the health and safety of other persons who may come into contact with such deposits;
(5)
Booths, cubicles, studios and rooms which are closed while such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms are in use often contain holes that have been cut or smashed out of the walls or other partitioning material. These holes permit the inhabitant of one booth to engage in specified sexual activities with the inhabitant of the adjoining booth, cubicle, studio or room. These so-called "glory holes" promote and encourage specified sexual acts to occur between persons anonymously. Anonymous sexual contact poses a higher risk of the spread of communicable diseases, including the AIDS virus and Hepatitis B and other sexually transmitted diseases. Further, the existence of glory holes in booths, cubicles, studios and rooms at adult-oriented establishments provides an increased risk that blood, semen, urine or other bodily secretion will be deposited on the floors and/or walls of such booths, cubicles, studios and rooms, which deposits could prove detrimental to the health and safety of other persons who may come into contact with such deposits;
(6)
Specified sexual activities often occur at unregulated adult-oriented establishments which provide live adult entertainment. Specified sexual activities include sexual physical contact between employees and patrons, clients or customers of adult-oriented establishments, and specifically include lap dancing, and/or manual or oral touching or fondling of specified anatomical areas, whether clothed or unclothed. Such casual sexual physical contact between strangers may result in the transmission of communicable diseases which would be detrimental to the health of the patrons, clients or customers and employees of such adult-oriented establishments;
(7)
The unregulated operation of adult-oriented establishments is associated with an increase in the incidence of sex-related crimes and also has a disruptive effect on the surrounding neighborhood by causing excessive noise, parking problems, the presence of discarded sexually oriented material on residential lawns and the performance of sexual acts in public places; and
(8)
The reasonable regulation and supervision of such adult-oriented establishments tends to discourage prostitution, other sex-related crimes, anonymous, high-risk sexual contact and/or high-risk unsanitary sexual activity, excessive noise and property devaluation, thereby decreasing the incidence of communicable diseases and sex-related crimes, and thereby promoting and protecting the health, safety and welfare of the employees and the public who patronize such establishments, and protecting the health, safety and property interests of the Town and its citizens.
C.
The continued unregulated operation of adult-oriented establishments is and would be detrimental to the general welfare, health and safety of the citizens of Farmington.
D.
The Constitution and laws of the State of Connecticut grant to the Town powers, especially police power, to enact reasonable legislation and measures to regulate and supervise adult-oriented establishments in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
E.
It is not the intent of the Council, in enacting this chapter, to deny to any person rights to speech protected by the United States and/or State Constitutions, nor is it the intent of the Council to impose any limitations or restrictions on the content of any communicative materials including sexually oriented films, videotapes, books and/or other materials. Further, by enacting this chapter, the Council does not intend to deny or restrict the rights of any adult to obtain and/or view any sexually oriented materials protected by the United States and/or State Constitutions, nor does it intend to restrict or deny any constitutionally protected rights that distributors or exhibitors of such sexually oriented materials may have to sell, distribute or exhibit such materials.