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Now it is the La Conner Town Council’s turn to decide how best to regulate adult businesses should one or more try to locate here.

Fortunately, the panel has received some grown-up advice.

The La Conner Planning Commission last week unanimously approved forwarding to the Council a detailed and highly restrictive framework developed with Planning Director Michael Davolio and Assistant Planner Ajah Eills based on court rulings issued in First Amendment and freedom of expression cases.

The plan limits to industrial zones on the town’s north and south ends sites where adult-oriented busine...