Town of Saratoga

TOWN GRAPPLES WITH ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ZONING:

The town looked for an out-of-the-way rural place to put an adult entertainment zone before settling on a spot between Swamp Road and Route 4 about three miles south of Schuylerville.
...
McClure has lived on Coveville Road, also known as County Route 69, for seven years. She said she'd rather see the adult entertainment zone placed in an industrial zone, which is where most towns put them.

Saratoga doesn't have an industrial zone, though, Town Supervisor Tom Wood said Tuesday. Federal courts have ruled that municipalities can't ban businesses like strip clubs, adult bookstores, adult video stores and 'adult physical contact establishments' outright. But they can restrict such businesses to specific areas.
...
Wood said the town doesn't want adult businesses at all. So the town decided to ban them from its commercial districts along Route 29 and 9P on Saratoga Lake.

'It's too likely someone would want to open one there,' he said.

But 85 percent of the town is zoned agricultural, Wood said, so the town had to narrow it down somehow. Officials ended up picking a section of land bordered by Hathaway Road on the west, Swamp and Haas roads on the north, Coveville Road to the south and a small section of Route 4 to the east.
...