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

16, Adult-Oriented Uses, Regulated, adopted by Ordinance No. 1742 on January 14, 2020, confines these businesses to a single zoning district and layers on strict spacing requirements. 010(A) allows adult-oriented uses only within the planned industrial district and requires separation, measured from the most proximate and directly measured legally described property line, of not less than 1,000 feet from any residential zoning district, place of worship, park, child care facility (including daycares), or school meeting the state's compulsory-education requirements, and not less than 300 feet from another adult-oriented use.

Subsection (B) makes clear that public streets, sidewalks, driveways, easements and other rights-of-way count toward those measured distances rather than being excluded. 25, with a copy to the city attorney's office. 030: the city council can grant a variance only after a public hearing and only where the applicant proves, through diligent inquiry, that no compliant site is available in the planned industrial district, with economic hardship expressly excluded as a basis; even then, a variance can only shorten the 300-foot buffer between two adult-oriented uses or place the business on an otherwise appropriately commercial-zoned site the applicant identifies, and the code bars any variance that would put an adult-oriented use within 1,000 feet of a residential use, place of worship, school or park.