Public Township Council Meeting — Packet

DRAFT PROPOSED REVISIONS – OCTOBER 2011 (iii) Masturbation, actual or simulated; and (iv) Excreta functions as part of or in connection with any of the activities set forth in the definition of specified sexual activities above. Tattoo parlor shall mean any establishment, shop or operation wherein a tattoo is removed from or affixed upon the surface of a human body. (3) Location of Sexually Oriented Businesses. (i) A person violates this ordinance if he/she operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business within five hundred (500) feet of: [a] Places of public worship, including but not limited to any church, synagogue, temple; [b] Any school or other place of instruction, whether public or private, including but not limited to any elementary or secondary school or any school bus stop; [c] Any municipal or county playground or place of public resort and recreation; [d] Any mental or physical health care provider or facility; [e] Any individual residence or residential district; [f] A boundary of any zone, as defined by the Land Use Regulations of the Township of West Orange, in which residential uses are permitted; [g] Any day-care center or similar facility for pre-school children; [h] Any other sexually oriented business; and [i] Any hospital. (ii) Measurement shall be made in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest point of the property line of the parcel of land upon which the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises devoted to residential use or another sexually oriented business, which is used for a purpose set forth herein. (iii) Every sexually oriented business shall be surrounded by a perimeter buffer of at least fifty (50) feet in width with plantings, fence, or other physical divider along the outside of the perimeter sufficient

hall be surrounded by a perimeter buffer of at least fifty (50) feet in width with plantings, fence, or other physical divider along the outside of the perimeter sufficient to impede the view of the interior of the premises in which the business is located. (iv) No sexually oriented business shall display more than two (2) exterior signs, consisting of one (1) identification sign and one (1) sign giving notice that the premises are off limits to minors. The combined signage shall be no more than forty (40) square feet in size. In addition, the signage shall comply with the Township Zoning Ordinance, but in no event, shall the total square footage of both signs exceed forty (40) square feet in the aggregate. (4) Development Standards. (i) Buildings used for sexually oriented businesses shall meet all applicable safety standards of the Township, including but not limited 129