Kootenai County, ID Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

1201, limits sexually oriented businesses to the Industrial zone; subsection A prohibits them in every other zone the county recognizes, including Commercial, Light Industrial, Agricultural, Rural, Restricted Residential and High Density Residential. Subsection B layers on the state location requirements at Idaho Code 67-6533. Subsection C sets a one-thousand-foot (1,000') buffer, measured property line to property line, from eight categories of use: any public or private school, college, university, trade or vocational school; the boundary of any residential district; any single-family, two-family or multi-family dwelling unit; any publicly or privately owned park open to the public; any childcare center, preschool or Head Start facility; any place of worship or assembly; any business licensed to sell or serve alcohol; and any other sexually oriented business.

Subsection D makes it unlawful to operate more than one sexually oriented business in the same building, structure, lot or parcel, even under different ownership. Subsection E bars operating one as an accessory to another permitted use, and subsection F prohibits displaying sexually oriented material, decorations or signage where it can be observed from a public right-of-way; subsection G extends that ban to sexually oriented imagery on signage itself. Subsection H prohibits possessing, selling, distributing, serving or consuming alcohol on any parcel where a sexually oriented business operates.

1201, cite the county's public health and safety interest and frame the regulations as content-neutral time, place and manner rules that leave Title 18, Chapter 41, Idaho Code's obscenity and indecency standards untouched.