Balto. County Council eyes crackdown on adult businesses
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Businesses that stock adult entertainment products could face a stark choice under a proposal that’s again moving through the Baltimore County Council: scale back on sexual inventory or find a less visible location.
The County Council is set to strengthen zoning restrictions on adult video stores, massage parlors and tattoo and body-piercing shops at its meeting next Tuesday.
The proposal would ban those businesses and any others that sell or display sexual paraphernalia and material from operating within 1,000 feet of many establishments — including churches, libraries, day care centers, homes or other family facilities. Current law sets the distance at 500 feet.
The bill, sponsored by Council Chairman John Olszewski and Councilman Sam Moxley, would also reduce the standard for the total adult inventory from 20 percent to 15 percent. The same lower percentage would apply to the establishment’s gross retail sales. Businesses that exceed those percentages would be subject to the distance restrictions.

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