Oregon, OH Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

02(b) attaches eight conditions to that use. Condition (1) bars a sexually oriented business from locating within 1,500 feet of any area or zoning district used for a residential purpose. Condition (2) adds a 1,500-foot buffer from any school, library or teaching facility attended by anyone under eighteen. Condition (3) requires 1,500 feet of separation from any other sexually oriented business, and also bars clustering within 1,000 feet of any two of six listed adult-adjacent establishments: cabarets or clubs with topless, bottomless or exotic dancers; on-premises beer or liquor establishments; pawn shops; pool or billiard halls; pinball or video arcades; and dance halls or discotheques.

Condition (4) sets the same 1,500-foot buffer from any church, synagogue or established place of religious services attended by minors. The remaining conditions regulate the business itself: condition (5) bans displays or advertising visible from any sidewalk or exterior public area, condition (6) requires doors, windows and entries to be arranged so the interior cannot be viewed from outside, and condition (7) forbids screens, loudspeakers or sound equipment audible or visible from public areas for any adult motion picture theater. Condition (8) requires off-street parking under Chapter 1157 on the same basis as other permitted M-2 uses. Ordinance 195-2002, passed September 23, 2002, adopted the current spacing package.