The Rocklin City Council will meet Friday - with two council members attending via telephone - to extend a moratorium on adult entertainment businesses while the city attorney crafts stricter regulations.
Rocklin's current ordinance only restricts where adult entertainment businesses can be located within the city. For instance, they're prohibited to open up a shop within 1,000 feet of a school or church.
Other communities, however, regulate how these establishments can operate, such as their hours, whether alcohol can be served and the proximity of customers to performers, City Manager Carlos Urrutia said.
"The city attorney was very concerned that if we were to receive an application, our ordinance would not be adequate," Urrutia said. "Under the First Amendment, we cannot exclude them completely. We can restrict them, but we can't say, 'Sorry, Charlie. You can't come in.' "
Earlier this year, the council approved a 45-day moratorium, which ends Friday.
The city attorney requested a 10-month-15-day extension to give him more time to prepare the new ordinance.
Although the extension was on Tuesday night's council agenda, council members Kathy Lund and Peter Hill, who are both on the East Coast, were absent, and the extension failed to win the required four-fifths approval, Urrutia said.
The 5 p.m. special meeting will be held at Rocklin City Hall, 3980 Rocklin Road.
By teleconferencing, Lund will attend from the Marriot Hotel Long Wharf in Boston, and Hill will attend from the Glenn Motor Inn in Watkins Glen, New York.
Rocklin currently has no adult entertainment businesses.
Call The Bee's Jennifer K. Morita, (916) 773-7388.
