Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is advocating for a more exhaustive review process around adult entertainment businesses downtown, in Chinatown, and in the Bay Village neighborhood. The move, Flynn said, is meant to give residents more agency and to prevent the area from sliding back into its history as the notorious “Combat Zone.”

Flynn filed a measure this week that would amend the city’s zoning code in order to make adult entertainment businesses in those neighborhoods a “conditional use” rather than an “allowed use.” An amendment like this should have been made “decades ago,” Flynn said, so that adult entertainment establishments must undergo a significant community review process before being approved.

“Residents of a neighborhood deserve a say in what takes place there. With ongoi

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