18-16.040 Design and Performance Standards.
The establishment or operation of an adult entertainment business shall comply with the applicable fees and site development standards, including, but not limited to, parking and design review and the requirements of the Uniform Codes adopted pursuant to Chapter IX. An adult entertainment business shall comply with the City’s applicable business tax requirements. In addition, adult entertainment businesses shall comply with the following design and performance standards:
a. Signs, advertisements, displays or other promotional materials depicting or describing “specified anatomical areas” or “specified sexual activities” or displaying instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with “specified sexual activities” shall not be shown or exhibited so as to be discernible by the public beyond the walls of the building or portion thereof in which the adult entertainment business is conducted.
b. Each adult entertainment business shall have a business entrance separate from any other nonadult business located in the same building.
c. All building openings, entries and windows for an adult entertainment business shall be located, covered or screened in such a manner as to prevent a view into the interior of an adult entertainment business from any area open to the general public.
d. No adult entertainment business shall be operated in any manner that permits the observation by the public of any material or activity depicting, describing or relating to “specified sexual activities” or “specified anatomical areas” from any public way or from any location beyond the walls of the building or portion thereof in which the adult entertainment business is conducted.
e. The building entrance to the adult entertainment business shall be clearly and legibly posted with a notice indicating that minors are precluded from entering the premises.
f. No loudspeakers or sound equipment shall be used by adult entertainment businesses for amplification of sound to a level discernible by the public beyond the walls of the building or portion thereof in which the adult entertainment business is conducted.
g. Each adult entertainment business shall be provided with a manager’s station which shall be used for the purpose of supervising activities within the business. A manager shall be on the premises during all times that the adult entertainment business is open to the public.
h. The interior of the adult entertainment business shall be configured in such a manner that there is an unobstructed view from a manager’s station of every area of the adult entertainment business to which any patron is permitted access for any purpose, excluding restrooms. If the adult entertainment business has two (2) or more manager’s stations designated, then the interior of the adult entertainment business shall be configured in such a manner that there is an unobstructed view of each area of the adult entertainment business to which any patron is permitted access for any adult purpose, excluding restrooms, from at least one (1) of the manager’s stations. The view required in this subsection must be by direct line of sight from the manager’s station.
i. No individual viewing area may be occupied by more than one (1) person at any one (1) time. “Individual viewing area” shall mean a viewing area designed for occupancy by one (1) person. Individual viewing areas of the adult entertainment business shall be operated and maintained without any hole or other opening or means of direct communication or visual or physical access between the interior space of two (2) or more individual viewing areas.
j. Off-street parking shall be provided for the adult entertainment business as specified in accordance with the parking provisions of Section 18-20.090.
k. An off-site security program shall be prepared and implemented including the following items:
1. All off-street parking areas and building entries serving the adult entertainment business shall be illuminated during all hours of operation with a lighting system which provides a minimum maintained horizontal illumination of one (1) footcandle (ten (10) lux) (one (1) candlepower) of light on the parking surface and/or walkway.
2. All interior portions of the adult entertainment business, except those areas devoted to mini-motion or motion pictures, shall be illuminated during all hours of operation with lighting system which provides a minimum maintained horizontal illumination of not less than two (2) footcandles (twenty (20) lux) (two (2) candlepower) of light on the floor surface. (Ord. #248-2020, S2 (Exh. A))