Florissant, MO Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Permitted district
- B-3 Extensive Business District only
- Approval required
- City Council special use permit
- Buffer from school/park/day care/church
- 1,000 feet
- Buffer from residential property
- 250 feet
Summary
Florissant does not allow adult entertainment businesses by right anywhere in the city. They can locate only in the "B-3" Extensive Business District, and only after the City Council grants a special use permit following a public hearing, with the business kept at least 1,000 feet from a school, park, day care or church and 250 feet from residential property.
K. Special Use Permits. ... The City Council may, by Special Permit, after public hearing and notice as provided in Article VIII and subject to such protective restrictions that the Council may deem necessary, authorize the location, extension or structural alteration of any of the following buildings or uses in a "B-3" Extensive Business District: ... 2. Adult entertainment businesses, provided that the physical confines of such businesses are not located within one thousand (1,000) feet of a public or private school, public park, day care center, church or within two hundred fifty (250) feet of a residentially zoned or used property.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4989395; v43 updated 2026-05-26; through 05-26-2026).
Full Breakdown
125(K) makes adult entertainment a Special Use Permit item in the "B-3" Extensive Business District rather than a by-right use: the City Council, not the Building Commissioner or Planning and Zoning Commission alone, must approve it after a public hearing and notice under Article VIII of the Zoning Code, and the Council can attach whatever protective restrictions it deems necessary. Item 2 of that Special Use Permit list sets two distance floors an adult entertainment business must clear before the Council will even consider it: the physical confines of the business cannot sit within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, a public park, a day care center or a church, and cannot sit within 250 feet of any residentially zoned or occupied property.
Because the use is confined to B-3 and gated behind a discretionary Council permit, it is unavailable in every other Florissant zoning district, including the B-1, B-2 and B-4 commercial districts and all residential districts, regardless of distance from a sensitive use. 125(K) rather than a dedicated adult-business licensing chapter.
Violations & Fines
Operating an adult entertainment business without the City Council's Special Use Permit, or inside the 1,000-foot school/park/day care/church buffer or the 250-foot residential buffer, is a Zoning Code violation Florissant can enforce through denial or revocation of the required permit and business license, with prosecution as an ordinance violation in Florissant Municipal Court for continued unpermitted operation.
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