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

503(A)(1)) call adult uses inherently objectionable when concentrated and set two buffers to prevent that concentration. Division (b) separates adult entertainment from other designated adult uses, from any establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed, and from religious institutions and public, private, or parochial schools and day care centers, tying that separation to the measurement rule in division (d). Division (c) makes it unlawful to establish any designated use within the city if the proposed location is within 500 feet of a residentially zoned district.

That 500-foot residential buffer is not absolute: it can be waived by the Planning and Zoning Board on a written petition signed by 51% of the property owners, residents, or business operators within 500 feet of the site, with the circulator swearing an affidavit that the signatures were personally witnessed. Division (d) measures both the 1,000-foot and 500-foot distances as a straight line, actual or imaginary, between any part of the building or lot holding the adult use and any part of the building or lot of the protected use, so an adult business cannot avoid the rule by pointing to a longer street route.

Division (e) protects an already-conforming adult business from being forced out of compliance if a bar, church, or school moves in near it later. 25 requires the operator of any adult entertainment establishment to register the name and address of its president or owner with the City Manager before opening, or within 30 days of the ordinance's adoption for an existing business, and it makes it unlawful to admit anyone under 18 onto the premises. 24 additionally bars specified sexual activities or exposure of specified anatomical areas at any place licensed to sell or serve alcohol.