Kissimmee, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

City Code § 10-54 requires a license from the licensing department before any adult entertainment establishment can operate, and limits each business to a single classification: adult bookstore, adult theater, or adult dancing establishment. Applications go to the building department with sworn identifying information, a site plan showing property lines, entrances, stages, and booths, and disclosure of any prior license suspensions or revocations (§ 10-55). Planning and zoning have 14 work days to weigh in, and the building department must grant or deny the license within 20 work days of a complete filing; if it misses that deadline, the applicant may begin operating until the department issues a formal denial (§§ 10-56, 10-57).

50 per seat or outdoor parking space (§ 10-59). Separately, § 10-89 imposes a 500-foot distance rule: no adult entertainment establishment may operate or expand within 500 feet of a pre-existing adult entertainment establishment, religious institution, educational institution, residentially zoned area, park, or alcohol-serving commercial establishment, measured property-line to property-line under § 10-90. On top of that spacing rule, subsection (b) confines every adult entertainment establishment to the airport industrial zoning district, and any nonconforming location under the pre-1995 rule had to cease operating by October 1, 1995 (§ 10-91).

Violations of building, fire, health, or zoning law give the licensee a seven-day cure period before suspension (§ 10-63(a)); three convictions within two years triggers a 30-day suspension, escalating to 90 and then 180 days for further violations within the following two years, and a violation after a 180-day suspension triggers outright revocation with a two-year bar from re-licensing at that location (§§ 10-63(c), 10-64).