Ordinance Number 562ORDINANCE NO 562
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 9 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE TO PROVIDE REGULATIONS FOR ESTABLISHING
WAREHOUSING, FORTUNETELLING, ADULT BUSINESSES,
AND MASSAGE PARLORS WITHIN THE CITY
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA,
HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Findings.
The City Council finds that:
A. The City's Environmental Review Board has reviewed
the amendment as set forth herein, has determined
that the amendment is a minor change in land use
limitations and is therefore categorically exempt.
The Environmental Review Board has otherwise
carried out all requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act as amended. The City
Council hereby finds and certifies said actions as
appropriate and correct.
B. The code amendment will provide regulations and
restrictions for establishing certain uses within
the City.
C. A duly noticed public hearing has been held to
receive and consider public testimony regarding
the proposed amendment.
SECTION 2. Amendment Text.
A. Introduction
Based upon the findings set forth in Section 1,
preceding, the following amendments to the
Municipal Code are hereby enacted:
B. Amendments
1. Sections 9-3.415(b)(2) and 9-3.417(b)(4) are
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Warehousing, storage and transfer uses, such
as cold storage plants, trucking firms and
beverage distributors, provided said use has
less than 50,000 square feet of floor area;"
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2. Sections 9-3.415(d)(22), 9-3.416(d)(10) and
9-3.417(d)(10) are hereby added to read as
follows:
"warehousing, storage and transfer uses, such
as cold storage, plants, trucking firms and
beverage distributors, containing 50,000
square feet of floor area or more."
3. Section 9-3.415(b)(23) is hereby added to
read as follows:
"Fortunetelling."
4. Sections 9-3.414(d)(19) and 9-3.415(d)(23)
are hereby added to read as follows:
"Adult Businesses, as set forth in Section
9-3.626 of Article 6 of this Chapter."
5. Section 9-3.626 is hereby added to the
Supplementary District Regulations to read as
follows:
"Section 9-3.626. Adult Businesses.
"(a) Purpose and Intent. Special locational
regulation of adult entertainment
businesses is necessary to ensure that
adverse effects caused by operational
characteristics will not contribute to
the blighting or downgrading of the
surrounding neighborhoods. The primary
purpose of the regulation is to prevent
the concentration or clustering of these
businesses in any area.
"(b) Definitions. For the purposes of this
Section, the term "adult business" is
defined to include each and every one of
the following described uses:
"Adult book store: An establishment
having as a substantial or significant
portion of its stock in trade, books,
magazines, or other periodicals which
are distinguished or characterized by
their emphasis on matter depicting,
describing or relating to "specified
sexual activities" or "specified
anatomical areas" or an establishment
with a segment or section devoted to the
sale or display of such material.
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business which is conducted exclusively
for the patronage of adults, and as to
which minors are specifically excluded
from patronage thereat, by law except
any business licensed by the State
Department of Alcoholic Beverage
Control; or (2) any business, other than
those expressly specified in this
Section, where employees or patrons
expose "specified anatomical areas" or
engage in "specified sexual activities;"
or (3) any other business or
establishment which offers its patrons
services or entertainment characterized
by an emphasis on matter depicting,
exposing, describing, or discussing or
relating to "specified sexual
activities" or "specified anatomical
areas." Adult business shall not be
deemed to include the practice of any of
the healing arts by any person licensed
therefor under the California Business
and Professions Code.
"Adult hotel or motel: A hotel or motel
wherein material is presented which is
distinguished or characterized by an
emphasis on matter depicting, describing
or relating to "specified sexual
activities" or "specified anatomical
areas."
"Adult mini -motion picture theater: An
enclosed building with a capacity for
less than fifty persons used for
presenting material distinguished or
characterized by an emphasis on matter
depicting or relating to "specified
sexual activities" or "specified
anatomical areas" for observation by
patrons therein.
"Adult motion picture arcade: Any place
to which the public is permitted or
invited wherein coin or slug -operated or
electronically, electrically or
mechanically controlled still or motion
picture machines, projectors or other
image-producting devices are maintained
to show images to five or fewer persons
per machines at any one time, and where
the images so displayed are
distinguished or characterized by an
emphasis on depicting or describing
"specified sexual activities" or
"specified anatomical areas."
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"Adult motion picture theater: An
enclosed building with -a capacity of
fifty or more persons used for
presenting material distinguished or
characterized by an emphasis on matter
depicting, describing or relating to
"specified sexual activities" or
"specified anatomical areas" for
observation by patrons therein.
"Adult Cabaret: A nightclub, theater or
other establishment which features live
performances by topless and/or
bottomless dancers, go-go dancers,
exotic dancers, strippers, or similar
entertainers, where such performances
are distinguished or characterized by an
emphasis on "specified sexual
activities" or "specified anatomical
areas."
"Encounter center or rap studio: Any
business agency, or person who, for any
form of consideration or gratuity,
provides a place where two or more
persons may congregate, assemble or
associate for the primary purpose of
engaging in, describing or discussing
"specified sexual activities" or
exposing "specified anatomical areas."
For the purposes of these regulations,
encounter center shall include massage
parlor and other similar establishments.
"Adult model studio: Any premises or
mobile facility where there is conducted
the business or transaction of
furnishing, providing or procuring
figure models who pose for the purpose
of being observed or viewed by any
person, or being sketched, painted,
drawn, sculptured, photographed, filmed,
videotaped, or otherwise similarly
depicted in the nude before persons who
pay a fee, or any other thing of value,
as consideration, compensation or
gratuity, for the right or opportunity
to so observe a figure model, or for
admission to, permission to or as a
condition of, remaining on the premises.
"Adult model studio" does not include
any studio or classroom which is
operated by any public agency, or any
public or private educational
institution authorized under California
Education Code Section 94300 et seq., to
issue and confer a diploma or degree.
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"Specified sexual activity: Includes the
following:
11(1) Actual or simulated sexual
intercourse, oral copulation, anal
intercourse, oral anal copulation,
bestiality, direct physical
stimulation of unclothed genitals,
flagellation or torture in the
context of a sexual relationship,
or the use of excretory functions
in the context of a sexual
relationship, and any of the
following depicted sexually
oriented acts or conduct:
analingus, buggery, fellatio,
necrophilia, pederasty, pedophilia,
piquerism, sapphism, zooerasty; or
"(2) Clearly depicted human genitals in
a state of sexual stimulation,
arousal or tumescence; or
"(3) Use of human or animal ejaculation,
sodomy, oral copulation, coitus, or
masturbation; or
"(4) Fondling or touching of nude human
genitals, pubic region, buttocks or
female breasts; or
11(5) Masochism, erotic or sexually
oriented torture, beating or the
infliction of pain; or
"(6) Erotic or lewd touching, fondling
or other sexually oriented contact
with an animal by a human being; or
"(7) Human excretion, urination,
menstruation, vaginal or anal
irrigation.
"Specified anatomical areas: Includes
any of the following:
"(1) Less than completely and opaquely
covered: (a) human genitals or
pubic region; (b) buttock and (c)
female breast below a point
immediately above the top of the
areola; or
"(2) Human male genitals in a
discernibly turgid state, even if
completely and opaquely covered.
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"(c) Establishment. The establishment of any
adult business business includes the
opening of such a business as a new
business, the relocation of such
business, or the conversion of an
existing use or premises to any adult
business use.
"Prior to establishing an adult business,
approval of a conditional use permit
shall be required. All such uses are
subject to the following conditions:
"(1) No such business shall be located
within one thousand (1000) feet of
any existing religious and/or
educational institution, public
park, or recreation facility.
"(2) No such business shall be located
within one thousand (1000) feet of
any adult business.
"(3) No such business shall be located
within five hundred (500) feet of
any area zoned for residential
use."
SECTION 3. Effective Date.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty
(30) days after its passage.
SECTION 4. City Clerk's Certification
The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Ordinance and cause the same to be posted at the duly designated
posting places within the City and published once within fifteen
(15) days after passage and adoption as required by law; or, in
the alternative, the City Clerk may cause to be published a
summary of this Ordinance and a certified copy of the text of
this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk
five (5) days prior to the date of adoption of this Ordinance;
and, within fifteen (15) days after adoption, the City Clerk
shall cause to be published, the aforementioned summary and shall
post a certified copy of this Ordinance, together with the vote
for and against the same, in the Office of the City Clerk.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of
January , 1986
PHILLI . SCH RTZE, OR
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
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I, MARY ANN HANOVER, City Clerk of the City of San Juan
Capistrano, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a
true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 562 , which was
introduced at a meeting of the City Council of the City of San
Juan Capistrano, California, held on January 7 , 1986 , and
adopted at a meeting held on January 21 , 1986 , by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Friess, Bland, Buchheim,
Hausdorfer, and Mayor Schwartze
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
( SEAL)
MARY ANN Al OVER, CITY CLERK
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