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<br />Ordinance No. 96-48 <br />City of North Olmsted <br />(B) Findings. Based on evidence concerning the adverse secondary effects of adult <br />entertainment on the community presented in hearings and reports made available to the <br />Council, and on findings incorporated in the cases of City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, <br />Inc., 475 U.S. 41 (1986), Young v. American Mini Theatres, 426 U.S. 50 (1976), and <br />Northend Cinema, Inc. v. Seattle, 585 P.2d 1153 (Wash. 1978), and on studies in other <br />communities including, but not limited to, Phoenix, Arizona; Minneapolis, Minnesota; <br />Indianapolis, Indiana; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and Beaumont, Texas; and also on <br />the findings found in the Report of Attorney General's Working Group on the Regulation of <br />Sexually Oriented Businesses, (7une 6, 1989, State of Minnesota), the Council finds: <br />1. Adult entertainment businesses in the City lend themselves to ancillary <br />unlawful and unhealthy activities that aze presently uncontrolled by the operators of the <br />establishments. Further, there is presently no mechanism to make the owners of these <br />establishments responsible for the activities that occur on their premises. <br />2. Certain employees of adult entertainment businesses defined in this <br />ordinance engage in higher incident of certain types of sexually oriented behavior at these <br />businesses than employees of other establishments. <br />3. Sexual acts, including masturbation, oral and anal sex, occur at adult <br />entertainment businesses. <br />4. Persons frequent certain adult entertainment businesses for the purpose of <br />engaging in sex on the premises of such businesses. <br />5. At least 50 communicable disea.ses may be spread by activities occurring in <br />adult entertainment businesses, including, but not limited to, syphilis, gononhea, human <br />immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV), genital herpes, hepatitis B, Non A, Non B amebiasis, <br />salmonella infections and shigella infections. <br />6. Since 1981 and to the present, there has been an increasing cumulative <br />number of reported ca.ses of AIDS caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the <br />United States-- 600 in 1982, 2,200 in 1983, 4,600 in 1984, 8,555 in 1985 and 253,448 <br />through December 31, 1992. <br />2