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police department involvement in every aspect of the process; and (4) prohibit bars or taverns within 1,000 feet of an adult business. NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK(TIMES SQUARE) 1994 Insight Associates performed this study in 1994 - one year after the City of New York passed extensive legislation that restricted and regulated sexually oriented businesses. The study focused on the Times Square Business Improvement District, especially on the areas of sexually oriented business concentration. Researchers combined analysis of available data on property values and incidence of crime with a demographic and commercial profile of the area to show relationships between the concentration of adult-use establishments and negative impacts on businesses and community life. The study also included anecdotal evidence from property owners, businesses, community residents and others regarding public perceptions of the impact of sexually oriented businesses on their neighborhoods. The study cited the strategies of several other big cities as possible methods to regulate sexually oriented businesses, including dispersal and concentration strategies. Using crime and pollution statistics from 1992 and 1993, the study showed that the streets were significantly less polluted and overall crime in the area had dropped drastically since the increase in regulation. Survey respondents acknowledged the improvements in the area and voiced optimism about the future of Times Square. They also complained of the increase of adult establishments on Eighth Avenue. Many respondents felt that some adult establishments could exist in the area, but that their growing number and their concentration on Eighth Avenue constituted a threat to the commercial prosperity and residential stability achieved in the preceding years in that section of the city. Some data from before the recent increase in adult establishments was unobtainable, and the study thus could not show if there had been an increase in actual complaints corresponding to the proliferation of sexually oriented businesses. The study did, however, reveal a reduction in criminal complaints corresponding to the distance from the major concentration of sexually oriented establishments. In addition, from 1985 to 1993 property values increased 26% less in concentrated sex-business areas than in the control group areas. DALLAS, TEXAS April 29, 1997 An analysis of the effects of sexually oriented businesses on their surrounding neighborhoods was completed by The Malin Group on December 14, 1994 and supplemented by them on April 29, 1997. The analysts reviewed similar studies of adult entertainment completed by five other major cities and found that comparable results were obtained in each study. This study compared two control areas—one with no sexually oriented businesses and one with two sexually oriented businesses more than a half mile apart—with a study area 2 000015