ZONE ALONE
03/18/2015 – Local Law Amended
APPENDIX II: ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ORDINANCE
1) INTENT
“It is the intent of this local law to regulate sexually-oriented businesses, to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of the Town of Lansing and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to monitor the location and concentration of sexually oriented businesses within the town of Lansing.”
“A sexually oriented business, as defined herein, may be operated only within a rural agricultural district in the TOWN OF LANSING”
Adult arcades, Adult bookstores/Adult video stores; including Instruments, devices or paraphernalia which are designed for use in connection with “specified sexual activities” – Adult nightclubs and bars, Adult theaters, Massage parlors, Escort agencies, and Sexual encounter centers.
Instead of placing this Adult Entertainment in a well-trafficked and lit commercial district; this “reasonable” law restricts all sexually-oriented businesses to an area where the families are poorer and more isolated, there is little traffic, no street lights, and no deputy’s patrols — the perfect hunting ground for the kind of sexual predators these unmonitored and out of sight businesses would draw.
Why? Because, I was told by the Town Supervisor: “People in the other parts of town would get upset if it was allowed near where they lived or could be seen.” No reasons for how this decision promotes “the health, safety, morals and general welfare” of rural families have ever been given.
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Tompkins County’s attack on the rural community goes far beyond a passive and stony gaze in the face of poverty and need – Ithaca’s expanding resettlement government uses a high maintenance, urban sprawl bedroom community policy to increase taxes beyond what the original residents can afford; while choking off services and bombarding the stubborn with iniquitous laws to speed up their “constructive eviction.”