Condor, Inc. v. Board of Zoning Appeals

BURNETT, Justice:

Appellants, operators of sexually oriented businesses, challenge the applicability and constitutionality of the City of North Charleston’s (City’s) Ordinance § 4-14 which, inter alia, restricts the location of sexually oriented businesses. Appellants contend: 1) there is no evidence they operated sexually oriented businesses in September 1992 and 2) the ordinance is unconstitutional as applied because it effectively “zones out” sexually oriented businesses from the City.

BACKGROUND

In September 1992, the City building administrator notified appellants they were operating…