Colorado Springs, CO Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

121) governs adult arcades, adult bookstores and video stores, adult cabarets, adult motels, adult motion picture theaters, adult theaters and sexual encounter establishments, collectively 'sexually oriented businesses', first enacted by Ordinance 92-159 and most recently amended by Ordinance 14-79. B, the application must include a to-scale or dimensioned floor diagram (accurate to plus or minus six inches) showing total floor space, the use of every room, which areas are off-limits to patrons, and where the license will be posted; no configuration change is allowed afterward without the Deputy Licensing Officer's prior written approval.

C requires the applicant to be qualified under the General Licensing Code and the premises to pass inspection by the Fire Department, the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department's Building Official, and the Deputy Licensing Officer. 1303A, before the license application can proceed; if that zoning permit is appealed, the license application is frozen until the appeal is finally decided. A, the City must issue the license within thirty days of a complete application unless the Deputy Licensing Officer finds a disqualifying factor, including the applicant being under 18, having an overdue debt to the City tied to a sexually oriented business, falsifying the application, or a felony conviction within the preceding five years for offenses including incest, sexual exploitation of a child, obscenity, prostitution, public indecency or sexual assault under specified Colorado Revised Statutes provisions.