The Butte County Planning Commission voted during its Dec. 13 meeting to keep adult shops out of light-industrial zones.
The commission added adult shops to a list of
businesses that might have an undesirable effect on surrounding areas. Examples
include liquor stores, pawnshops, tobacco stores, tattoo parlors, piercing
shops and nightclubs.
Dan
Breedon, principal planner at the meeting, described them as establishments
“which may need to be disbursed to minimize their impacts.”
Light-industrial
zones are generally composed of establishments with little potential to make
noise, odor or vibration. Before this meeting, adult shops were permitted in
light- and heavy- industrial zones, but the commission's action limits adult shops to
heavy- and general-industrial zones.