18-16.030 Location of Adult Entertainment Businesses.
a. No person shall operate or establish an “adult entertainment business,” as defined in this Code, in any area of the City, except as noted in subsection (b) of this section.
b. No building permit or zoning clearance, business license or other permit or entitlement for business use shall be legally valid unless it is operated within the AE, Adult Entertainment Combining Zone.
c. Any adult entertainment business proposed to be operated or established in the AE, Adult Entertainment Combining Zone shall be subject to the following restrictions:
1. The establishment or operation of an adult entertainment business shall be subject to the locational criteria setting forth minimum distances from the sensitive uses and zones as follows:
(a) Seven hundred (700') feet from any parcel of land which is located in a residential zone.
(b) Seven hundred (700') feet from any parcel of land upon which a religious institution or school is located.
2. For the purpose of this chapter, all distances shall be measured in a straight line, without regard for intervening structures, using the closest property lines of the parcels of the land involved. (Ord. #248-2020, S2 (Exh. A))