Redlands, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

030. 040 requires every operator to file an application with the chief of police on a city form and pay a non-refundable filing fee set by council resolution; the chief of police forwards a copy to the community development department for review. 226 layers land-use restrictions on top of the permit. 030, Minimum Proximity Requirements, confines adult oriented businesses in the city to the C-M commercial manufacturing zone, the M-2 general industrial zone, the I-P industrial district zone, or the EV/IC commercial industrial land use designation of the East Valley Corridor specific plan (specific plan #40).

Within those zones a business still cannot be established within 500 feet of any other adult oriented business, or within 1,000 feet of any existing residential zone, park, church or school. Distances are measured from the nearest exterior wall of the facility housing the adult use to the nearest lot line of the residential zone, park, school or church, along a straight line without regard to intervening structures, per subsection C. 020 defines covered uses broadly: adult arcades, bookstores, cabarets, motels/hotels, motion picture theaters, adult theaters and modeling studios, generally triggered where 30 percent or more of stock or programming emphasizes specified sexual activities or anatomical areas. 050, which requires the operator to show a substantial pre-existing investment, an inability to recoup it by the termination date, and good-faith relocation efforts.