Bloody hell, they are trying to shut down our porn stores!
 

I'm really getting sick of living in Kansas. Today I read an article I found on our local gov't website. On the first page was a link to this story:

In response to various media inquiries, the following statement has been issued by the office of Gary E. Rebenstorf, City of Wichita Director of Law and City Attorney:

SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS ORDINANCE STATUS

As of Jan. 1, the moratorium on new licenses for sexually oriented businesses within the City of Wichita will expire. The moratorium was approved Feb. 8, 2005, by the Wichita City Council.

The Council also enacted a new zoning ordinance on that date that restricts those businesses to areas that are further than 500 feet from a church, school, public park, licensed in day care center, residential zoning district boundary, Old Town district boundary, or other adult entertainment establishment.

The 2005 ordinance defines a sexually oriented business within the City of Wichita as a holder of a valid adult entertainment establishment license. By adding the definition, the City?s regulatory code became consistent with the existing City-County unified zoning code.

As of Feb. 8, 2005, there were nine sexually oriented businesses validly operating in the City of Wichita in areas prohibited by the new limitations. The moratorium provided a two-year grace period for those businesses to voluntarily comply with the new ordinance.

Since the enactment of the 2005 ordinance, four of these businesses have closed their doors and ceased to operate. The City is in the process of negotiating the eminent closure of two such additional businesses.

The ordinance requires the City to test the constitutional validity of the ordinance in court before it seeks to enforce it against any of the remaining, pre-existing businesses. It is likely there will be three such businesses. These businesses will not be sued directly. There are available court procedures that will allow the City to seek a court determination without placing the burden of defense on those businesses. However, those remaining businesses will have an opportunity to appear in court if they so choose to address the validity of the ordinance.

There are seven sexually oriented businesses in the City currently operating in areas allowed by the resolution.

The specific ordinance that addresses the lawsuit requirement is found at VII-J.2.c of the Wichita/ Sedgwick County Unified Zoning Code.
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This kind of thing is really getting tiring. It doesn't even sound any more like they want these stores to move, just close their doors forever. I know this isn't the only state/city to do this but come on.

This government is getting ridiculous. Go Ron Paul or go the way of Communist China

This just goes to show how little you know about Ron Paul.

Isn't it his position that stuff like this would be determined by the state? Get used to it if he were to get elected.

If you don't like state laws then move to another state! That is ALOT easier than moving to another country if you don't like federal laws.

Based on the title I thought you were another pissed Aussie.

Nope, just a pissed Kansan.

Please tell me you are drunk.

"Bloody hell" is a very common phrase in Kansas. :1orglaugh

That's what you get for living in Kansas. Seriously.

Your location states NYC area, and Rudy Giuliani used very similar rezoning laws to close the sex shops in Times Square (even though those laws were being worked on before Giuliani ever took office and he took credit for what was already in motion). Most states never thought of using rezoning laws to close adult bookstores until the success NYC had gave them a blueprint.

The sad truth is this is happening in some form in almost every state. They are making it so adult bookstores have nowhere to operate but high crime areas and industrial/warehouse districts, and then they try to blame the adult bookstores for the crime that was already there due to poverty...

If you want to do sex and drugs and rock and roll, move to Nevada.

And yet i still know the owners, djs, girls and managers at several strip clubs in times square and surrounding areas. You'll never win me over trying to make a comparison between nyc and kansas. :1orglaugh

There are still a bunch of shops on 8th ave also.

DivaShane for Governor of Kansas!

Fuck me, more bullshit laws.

I'm not really trying to compare NYC and Kansas, and I know there are still plenty of adult businesses in NYC. I'm just saying that the success NYC had in closing down a lot of the shops is the blueprint that Kansas and damn near every other state is using to try and close as many adult businesses as possible...

That happened a while ago. Where are you people at when the law is getting proposed? Why weren't you yelling about it then?

People forget that and its very scary.