Lewis County, WA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

020, Table 2 (Land Use Summary) lists "Adult entertainment" under the Amusement/Recreational use category and runs it across every zoning column the county maintains for unincorporated land: Rural, LAMIRD Types 1 through 3, Resource, Other Rural, Urban Growth Area, UGA-Small Towns, RDD-10, RDD-20, STMU, RRC, CC, TSA, STI, FC, RAI, ARL, FRL and MRL. " That means an adult entertainment business can only be sited in unincorporated Lewis County within an RDD-5 zone, and only after obtaining a special use permit reviewed under the county's discretionary permit process rather than being approved administratively as a permitted use.

040(9)(c)(ix) sets the parking ratio at one parking space for every 100 square feet of floor area, with exhibition hall or auditorium floor area added cumulatively to that count. 95 LCC). Because adult entertainment is not a permitted use in those particular districts under the Table 2 use matrix, an applicant pursuing the RDD-5 special use permit route should confirm with Lewis County Community Development which parking standard the hearing examiner applies to that permit, since the code's parking chapter is written to reach the small-town and crossroads commercial districts rather than RDD-5 directly.