VENTURA : Law Limits Locations for Adult Businesses
Adult businesses will be banned from all but Ventura’s industrial areas under a law unanimously approved this week by the City Council.
The law prohibits adult-oriented businesses from locating within 200 feet of each other, and within 500 feet of a church, school, residence or other place where children might be.
The new law suggests the streets between Victoria Avenue and Arundell Avenue, south of the Ventura Freeway, as the largest area in the city where adult-oriented businesses might locate.
Various residents have asked the city to consider prohibiting such businesses entirely. The city’s attorney has warned that doing so would violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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