Parker, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

36 is Parker's one zoning classification built around tourism, event and hospitality uses that cluster near attractions like Southfork Ranch: hotels, bed and breakfasts, conference facilities, dinner playhouses, farmers' markets and even a permitted private club for alcohol service, so long as that club sits at least 300 feet from a church, public school or public hospital. Subsection (C)(4), Prohibited uses, draws a hard line around that list. It bars sexually oriented businesses by name, including adult bookstores, adult theaters, nude modeling or photography studios, and adult dancing or entertainment conducted at private clubs, and separately bars strip commercial development or shopping centers from the district.

Because the SA district is the only part of Parker's code that contemplates commercial entertainment or nightlife-adjacent uses at all, and every other zoning district (agricultural-open space, single-family, single-family transitional, manufactured housing, planned development) is built around residential and agricultural uses with no comparable permitted-use category, this SA prohibition functions as a citywide bar rather than a district-specific exception: there is no zoning classification anywhere in Parker's code under which a sexually oriented business could obtain a permitted, conditional, or special use permit. The prohibition sits alongside the City Council's broader discretion under (C)(1)(b) to judge whether any use in the district is compatible with adjacent land, giving the Council latitude to reject other borderline commercial uses on top of the named prohibitions.