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CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO. 2720
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING
FINDINGS OF FACT IN SUPPORT OF AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND
LICENSING THE BUSINESSES, MANAGERS, AND EMPLOYEES THAT
PROVIDE ADULT ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CITY -OF RENTON.
WHEREAS, cities have the right to enact laws for the protection
of the public health, safety and general welfare; and
WHEREAS, various Washington State municipalities have found it
is necessary for the public health, safety, and welfare to regulate
businesses, managers, and employees that provide adult
entertainment; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has adopted ordinances relating to
adult businesses and adult entertainment that regulate adult motion
picture theatres, massage parlors and massagists, and adult
entertainment in businesses licensed by the Washington Liquor
Control Board in order to protect the public health, safety, and
general welfare of the City as well as to protect and preserve the
quality of the City' s neighborhoods, commercial districts, and the
quality of urban life ; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that adult
entertainment, including nude and semi-nude dancing, in public
establishments is frequently linked to patron, employee, and owner
participation in criminal activity including controlled substance
violations, liquor law violations, prostitution, and, generally,
increased criminal activity; and
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WHEREAS, the City takes notice of the experiences of other
cities and counties of the specific adverse impacts of businesses
providing adult entertainment including nude and semi-nude dancing,
specifically in Bothel, Bremerton, Seattle, Kent, King County, and
Snohomish County as permitted by the United States Supreme Court in
the case of City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres; and
WHEREAS, the City has previous experience with adult use
businesses and has noted an increase in criminal activity in and
around those businesses ; and
WHEREAS, testimony has previously been presented to the City
Council and its committees concerning the adverse secondary impacts
of businesses providing adult entertainment as part of the study
effort undertaken by the City prior to its adoption of an ordinance
regulating the location of adult motion picture theatres, such
testimony and study resulting in findings of fact adopted by the
City Council and approved by the United States Supreme Court in City
of Renton v. Playtime Theatres; and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Supreme Court in the case of
O'Day V. King County, 109 Wn. 2d 796, has approved the
constitutionality of a King County ordinance regulating nude
dancing, and the City Council is aware of, and relies upon that
decision in drafting its regulations; and
WHEREAS, the court in O'Day v. King County has found
regulations similar to the ones being considered by the City Council
as being regulation of conduct, and not expression; and
WHEREAS, the City Council seeks to regulate only the negative
secondary effects of adult entertainment, and does not intend to
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regulate the content of the entertainment, unless that content is
obscene; and
WHEREAS, the City Council intends to impose only reasonable
time, place, and manner restrictions on free speech to the extent
any regulation does impinge free speech; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has been informed that the case of
O'Day v. King County requires the court to give a constitutional
construction to these regulations; and
WHEREAS, the City of Renton presently has no businesses that it
is aware of that would be regulated by the proposed regulations on
adult entertainment, and is unaware of any proposal to locate such a
business within the city limits of the City of Renton; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes adult entertainment
regulations to be in place prior to location of any such business
within the city limits of the City of Renton, in order to prevent or
minimize the negative secondary effects of such businesses;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RENTON,
WASHINGTON, DO RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. The above findings are true and correct.
SECTION II. This resolution will serve as the basis for the
adoption of an ordinance regulating and licensing businesses,
managers, and employees that provide adult entertainment in the City
of Renton.
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RESOLUTION NO. 27.20
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 23rd day of may ,
1988.
Ma ne E 11
otor, City Clerk
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR this 23rd day of May ,
1988.
Earl Clymerj ayor
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Approved as to form:
Lawrence J. Wa en, .City -Attorney
Res. 19: 5-20-88: as.
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