§ 25-803. Location and site requirements within district AE.

Any adult bookstore, adult entertainment facility, bathhouse, massage shop, or modeling studio shall meet the following location and site requirements:

(1)

No more than two (2) or such uses shall be located within one thousand (1,000) feet of each other as measured in a straight line from the lot line of the affected properties.

(2)

All access shall be provided from a major thoroughfare.

(3)

The property on which such use is located shall have a minimum of fifty (50) feet of street frontage.

(4)

The property on which the use is located shall be screened by a solid masonry wall at least six (6) feet in height along the side and rear property lines.

(5)

The facility on which the use is located and the parking for such facility shall have a front yard setback of twenty (20) feet, a side yard setback of ten (10) feet, and a rear yard setback of ten (10) feet.

(6)

The parking requirements as provided in section 25-1301 shall be met as well as the loading requirements of section 25-1302.

(7)

If the parking and maneuvering space of any parking lot exceeds seventy-five hundred (7,500) square feet, at least five (5) percent of the lot area shall be maintained as landscaped area; provided that a credit toward the overall required landscaped area may be provided if the landscaping provides for trees either at least fifteen (15) feet in height or at least three (3) inches in diameter for each two thousand (2,000) square feet of required landscaped parking area. Additionally, fifteen (15) percent of the entire lot area including parking area shall be maintained as an open landscaped area with a twenty (20) foot landscape buffer along all street frontage.

(8)

The facility in which the use is located shall be designed in such a fashion that all openings, entries and windows prevent view into such facilities from any pedestrian sidewalk, walkway, street or other public area.

(9)

The facility in which such a use is located shall be limited to one (1) wall-mounted sign no greater than one (1) square foot of a sign area per linear foot of wall length, not to exceed a total of fifty (50) square feet; said sign shall not flash, blink or move by mechanical means and shall not extend above the roof line of the building. Further, no merchandise or pictures of products or entertainment on the premises shall be displayed in window areas or any area where such merchandise or pictures can be viewed from the sidewalk in front of the building. No flashing lights and/or lighting which leaves the impression of motion or movement shall be permitted.

(Ord. No. 6479, § 4, 2-9-93; Ord. No. 96-45, § II, 6-25-1996; Ord. No. 18-12, § II, 3-27-2018)