COUNCIL ENDORSES ADULT BUSINESS LIMITS.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. voted preliminary approval Tuesday to a new ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation.An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been that would expand the zones where adult businesses are banned by prohibiting them from streets regularly used by children going to school. Councilman Mike Hernandez proposed the ordinance, saying the current city law is inadequate. The current law prohibits adult entertainment businesses within 500 feet of schools, parks, churches and residential neighborhoods and within 1,000 feet of another adult business. ``We need to tighten up Verb 1. tighten up - restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations" constrain, stiffen, tighten confine, limit, throttle, trammel, restrain, restrict, bound - place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the the ordinance so that it basically doesn't allow for the opening of these establishments in the corridors where children have to travel, or in public facilities open to the public,'' Hernandez said. An attorney for one adult business said the proposal is unconstitutional unconstitutional adj. referring to a statute, governmental conduct, court decision or private contract (such as a covenant which purports to limit transfer of real property only to Caucasians) which violate one or more provisions of the U. S. Constitution. . Roger Don Diamond, who represents the Industrial Strip nightclub in Hernandez's east side district, said it is unclear what would constitute a corridor for schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school . ``The language is very vague and probably unconstitutional,'' Diamond said. The City Council directed attorneys to draft an ordinance that would ban adult businesses from ``a corridor regularly traveled by children en route to and from school,'' and within 500 feet of ``a government office where students receive vocational training.'' Hernandez said his intent is for streets to qualify for the restriction if they are regularly traveled on foot by students, although he would not rule out it also applying to streets used by school buses. ``It never made sense that you couldn't open another adult establishment within 1,000 feet of an adult entertainment business but you can open it within 600 feet of a school,'' Hernandez said. ``We want to create some consistency.'' Assistant City Attorney Claudia McGee Henry said Hernandez's proposal would have to be subject to public hearings by the Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle and the drafting of firm language before it is returned to the council for approval. Henry declined to make a judgment on the legality le·gal·i·ty n. pl. le·gal·i·ties 1. The state or quality of being legal; lawfulness. 2. Adherence to or observance of the law. 3. A requirement enjoined by law. Often used in the plural. until the language is drafted. |
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