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reenacted to read as follows: 17.16.240 Sexually Oriented Businesses. A. It shall be unlawful to cause or permit the operation, establishment, or maintenance of a sexually oriented business outside of the Industrial (I) zone district. It shall be unlawful to cause or permit the operation, establishment, or maintenance of a sexually oriented business within the Industrial (I) zone district unless the same has been approved as a special review use pursuant to Chapter 17.40 of this Title and is in compliance with such approval and all applicable regulations of this Code. B. No sexually oriented business shall be established, operated or maintained within 1,500 of any school or within 1,000 feet of: 1. Any religious institution; 2. Any public building; 3. An existing dwelling; 4. Any park; 5. The boundary of a residential zone district; or 6. Another sexually oriented business. C. The distance between two sexually oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the closest exterior structural wall of each business. D. The distance between a sexually oriented business and any religious institution, school, public building, existing dwelling, park, or boundary of a residential zone district shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest point of the building or structure used as part of the premises where the sexually oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a religious institution, school, public building or existing dwelling, or the nearest boundary of an affected park or residential zone district. E. No more than one sexually oriented business shall be established, operated or maintained within the same building, structure, premises or portion thereof. F. Any sexually oriented business lawfully operating on the effective date of this ordinance that is in violation of subsection B of this section will be permitted to continue for a period of six (6) months from the effective date hereof. G. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection F of this section, the City may grant an extension of time during which a sexually oriented business in violation of subsection B of this section will be permitted to continue upon a showing that the owner of the business has not had a reasonable time to recover the initial financial investment in the business. No such extension of time shall be for a period greater than that reasonably necessary for the owner of the business to recover his or her initial financial investment in the business. A sexually oriented business in violation of subsection B of this section may continue during such extended period unless the business is sooner terminated for any reason or voluntarily discontinued