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

A sets three separate 1,000-foot standards for adult entertainment: no such establishment may locate within 1,000 feet of a lot occupied by another adult entertainment establishment; within 1,000 feet of a lot occupied by any religious institution, school, park, playground or public building; or within 1,000 feet of any Rural or Urban Residential Zoning District. 01, defines "Adult Entertainment Establishment" as any establishment that conducts, as a principal use or as a significant or substantial adjunct use, the sale, rental, display or other offering of live entertainment, dancing or material distinguished by its emphasis on Specified Sexual Activities or Specified Anatomical Areas, expressly naming adult bookstores, adult hotels or motels, adult motion picture theaters, adult restaurants and adult cabarets.

A's triple buffer must independently be satisfied before the Director can approve a site plan. Because Rural and Urban Residential districts are excluded outright by the third standard, and any lot within 1,000 feet of a church, school, park, playground or public building is excluded by the second, the combined effect concentrates adult entertainment into a narrow band of nonresidential land well removed from homes and institutional uses, with no variance procedure named in this section.