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A-98-2 August 31, 1998 Staff Report Page 3 of 4 DISCUSSION AND STAFF ANALYSIS In order to address the weaknesses in the existing Code, staff researched the ordinances of numerous other cities. Two proposed ordinances were drafted based on a model ordinance provided by the League of California Cities to assist cities with this process. The first changes the locational requirements in the Zoning Code, and the second adds a chapter to the Municipal Code of licensing requirements for adult -oriented businesses. These proposed ordinances were then modified to incorporate suggestions from the public and the NFLF. For example, sites with frontage on Williams, Alvarado and Fairway were removed from the potential site list after the community mentioned that these streets were paths used by children to access the junior high school and the ball fields. Another suggestion incorporated into the ordinances was a noticing requirement to property owners within 1000 feet of any site for which the City receives an application for an adult -oriented business. This will help the City to determine whether the proposed business meets the locational distance requirement from impacted uses. The changes to the Zoning Code can be summarized as follows: • Remove the current definitions and add more detailed ones; • Allow adult -oriented businesses to locate in industrially zoned areas (IP Industrial Park District, IG Industrial General and IL Industrial Limited. Parcels in these areas which have frontage on main streets or which have overlay zones will not be included as potential sites; and `./ • Expand the locational requirement distance. Adult -oriented businesses can be no closer than 1000 feet to any residential zoned property, school, daycare, church, youth organization, park or other adult -oriented business. This distance shall be measured from the property line of a site with an adult business to the property line of an impacted use. The proposed approach of using the IP, IG and IL Districts and the locational requirement of 1000 feet was made after careful consideration by staff. Originally, only the IP District was considered, but this did not provide an adequate number of sites once parcels on main streets were removed from consideration. Other districts, such as the CG Commercial General and CS Commercial Service, were considered, as were the options of creating an overlay zone or using only redevelopment areas. Locational standards ranging from 400 to 1000 feet were also tested. In these alternative cases, either too many or too few potential sites were provided. At the April 20th City Council meeting, it was suggested that a clustering option be considered. This option was reviewed at the June 25th workshop but was strongly discouraged by the NFLF because of the substantial increase in crime associated with grouping adult businesses within walking distance of each other. With these changes in the location requirements, a minimum of seven sites and a maximum of nine sites will be possible. Once the library relocates after its renovation, 55