Johns Creek, GA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- License required
- City clerk, annual, $100 initial fee
- Zoning
- M-1 and M-1A districts only
- Residential buffer
- 1,000 feet minimum
- Other SOB buffer
- 1,500 feet minimum
- Penalty
- Up to $1,000 fine, 6 months jail
Summary
Johns Creek requires a sexually oriented business license from the city clerk and confines such businesses to the M-1 and M-1A industrial districts, at least 1,000 feet from residential zoning and 1,500 feet from any other sexually oriented business.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a sexually oriented business in the city without a valid sexually oriented business license.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 23 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
The city's Zoning Ordinance permits sexually oriented businesses only within the M-1 and M-1A Light Industrial and Industrial Park Districts and prohibits them everywhere else. Every property line of the business must sit at least 1,000 feet from residentially zoned or used land and from public or private institutional uses like churches, schools, and libraries, and at least 1,500 feet from any other sexually oriented business. Separately, Chapter 22, Article VIII of the general code requires a business license, and an employee license, from the city clerk before operating: issued within 20 days, subject to denial for a specified criminal conviction, and posted at the entrance.
Violations & Fines
Operating without a license, or locating within the buffer distances of housing or another sexually oriented business, is punishable by a fine up to $1,000 per day plus imprisonment up to six months, and grounds for license revocation.
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