Nashua, NH Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Zone
- HB Highway Business only
- Spacing from other SOBs
- 1,000 feet
- Spacing from residences/schools
- 750 feet
- Permit review
- Administrative Officer, 30 days
- Citation
- Nashua Land Use Code § 190-55
Summary
Nashua confines sexually oriented businesses to the HB Highway Business zone, requires a land use permit, and enforces a 1,000-foot buffer from other such businesses plus 750-foot buffers from residences, schools, and religious institutions.
Subject to the limitations of Subsection D(2) below, sexually oriented businesses may be located in any HB Highway Business Zoning District of the City as herein defined. A sexually oriented business shall not be established in any other zoning district. ... No sexually oriented business is permitted within 1,000 feet of another existing sexually oriented business or one for which a building permit or zoning certificate of use has been applied for.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4805762; v29 updated 2026-02-10; through 02-10-2026).
Full Breakdown
Under Nashua Land Use Code § 190-55D, sexually oriented businesses may locate only in the HB Highway Business Zoning District: no other district permits them. Within HB, a new location must sit at least 1,000 feet from another existing or pending sexually oriented business, and at least 750 feet from any residence, school, day care, religious institution, park, or recreation establishment, and 750 feet from the City boundary. No sexually oriented business may open until the Administrative Officer issues a land use permit under § 190-128, following the procedures in § 190-55F through § 190-55J, and operators must display the permit conspicuously on the premises.
Violations & Fines
Operating without an approved land use permit, or in violation of the locational or performance standards, subjects the operator to the penalty provisions of § 190-156; a permit lapses if not exercised within one year or if the business ceases operating for six months.
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