Clinton Township, MI Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

01(a)(5) sets the location standards for adult use businesses, listed among the supplemental use standards that apply on top of ordinary district regulations. Adult use businesses are permitted in the B-3 General Business District subject to three conditions. First, no adult use business may locate closer than 1,000 feet to any other adult use business, a spacing rule aimed at preventing clustering. Second, establishing such a use in a B-3 District is otherwise unlawful unless the prohibition is waived: a waiver requires a validated petition filed with the Clinton Township Planning Department describing the business as adult-use in nature, signed by at least 51% of residentially-zoned property owners, 51% of occupants of any residential rental units, and 51% of those owning or conducting business within 300 feet of the proposed site, and it must also carry the signature of the legal representative of any church or school within 300 feet.

Third, the site must abut a major thoroughfare, with all ingress and egress directly from that thoroughfare, and the use cannot be located within a planned shopping center. Because the B-3 default is prohibition unless the neighborhood petition succeeds, an adult use business effectively needs both zoning compliance and a supermajority of nearby stakeholders' consent before the Township will allow it to open, making this one of the more discretionary approval paths in the Zoning Code. The provision was re-adopted under Ordinance 260-A-499, passed December 22, 2025.