 A city’s “interest in attempting to preserve the quality of urban life is one that must be accorded high respect...””

A dissenting opinion was authored by Justice Souter, who stated, “In 1977, the city of Los Angeles studied sections of the city with high and low concentrations of adult business establishments catering to the market for the erotic.The city found no certain correlation between the location of those establishments and depressed property values, but it did find some correlation between areas of higher concentrations of such business and higher crime rates.On that basis, Los Angeles followed the examples of other cities in adopting a zoning ordinance requiring dispersion of adult establishments.