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Pornography
Sexually-Oriented Businesses
Partnering With the Business Community to Fight Sexually Oriented Businesses
A study was conducted in Los Angeles comparing crime statistics in areas where sexually
oriented businesses were located to areas of the city without sexually oriented businesses.
The areas with sexually oriented businesses experienced an increase in crime:
• pandering up 340%
• murder up 42.3%
• aggravated assault up 45.2%
• robbery up 52.6%
• purse snatching up 17%.
An appraiser questionnaire was distributed to real estate professionals with the results being summarized as follows:
• 87.7% felt sexually oriented businesses would decrease market value of business property in the same vicinity
• 72.8% felt the concentration of sexually oriented businesses would decrease the annual
income of other businesses in that same vicinity
• Over 90% felt that the concentration of sexually oriented businesses would decrease the market value of private residences located within 1,000 feet by up to 20%
A survey of property owners indicated:
• Almost 85% felt that adult businesses had a negative effect on the sales and profits of businesses
• Over 80% felt that adult businesses had a negative effect on the value and appearance of
homes in the area of the adult business.
Area property and business owners cited:
• Difficulty in renting office space
• Difficulty in keeping desirable tenants
• Difficulty in recruiting employees
• Limits hours of operation during evening hours
• Deters patronage from women and families
• Generally reduces business patronage
Respondents emphasized concerns about the high incidence of crime. A high percentage of
respondents said that the aesthetics of adult businesses are garish, sleazy, shabby, blighted, tasteless and tend to increase the incidence of litter and graffiti.
What you can legally do to prevent sexually oriented businesses from locating in your community
Based on the study cited above from Los Angeles and others confirming these statistics, it is a
matter of good business sense to do everything possible to legally prevent sexually oriented businesses (SOBs) from locating in your community. Begin by contacting all local commercial
property managers/owners and ask them to consider adding lease/deed restrictions to prevent SOBs from leasing/buying property for sexually oriented uses. A sample restrictive covenant is provided below.
FORM OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANT FOR DEED OR LEASE
OWNER/LESSEE, for the benefit of his/her/its respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns, and each and every person, firm or corporation hereinafter owning
and/or leasing any portion of the real estate described on Exhibit "A," does hereby declare, create and establish the following restrictive covenant with respect to the real estate:
"No one shall operate, establish, carry on, permit or cause or suffer to be erected, operated or carried on in any manner or any part of the real estate the following ("Prohibited Uses"):
Sexually Oriented Businesses, as that term is described in Chapter _____ of the Code of Ordinances of the City of ___________________ including, without limitation, adult arcades,
adult bookstores, adult video stores, adult cabarets, adult motels, adult motion picture theaters, adult theaters, escort agencies, nude model studios, and sexual encounter centers."
This Restrictive Covenant against Prohibited Uses shall constitute a real property covenant running with the land, binding upon the heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the undersigned.
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