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e e That Section 7-700, Special Use Performance Standards of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of La Porte is amended by adding a new Subpart G to read as follows: G. Location of Adult Oriented Businesses (A) A person commits an offense if he operates or causes to operate an adult oriented business within 1,000 feet of any of the following, whether located within or outside the corporate limits of the City of La Porte: (1) a boundary of a residential district; (2) the property line of a lot devoted to a residential use; (3) a church; (4) a school; (5) a day care or kindergarten; or (6) a public park or playground. (B) For the purposes of Subsection (A), measurement shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where an adult oriented business is conducted, to the nearest property line of the premises of a church, school, day care or kindergarten, or to the nearest boundary of an affected public park or playground, residential district, or lot devoted to a residential use. (C) A person commits an offense if he or she operates or establishes, or causes or permits another to operate or establish an adult oriented business which is located within 1,000 feet of another adult oriented business. The distance between two adult oriented businesses shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the closest exterior walls of the structures in which the businesses are located. (D) A person commits an offense if he causes or permits the operation, establishment, or maintenance of more than one adult oriented business in the same building, structure, or portion thereof. 11