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

030, Locational limitations, restricts adult uses to the R-C (retail commercial) and F-C (freeway commercial) zones of the Gateway Specific Plan, and the H-Ind (heavy industrial) zone of the Agua Mansa Specific Plan. Even inside those zones, it is unlawful to establish an adult use within a seven-hundred-fifty-foot radius of any residential zone, a school or park, a religious institution, or any other adult use already regulated under the chapter. Distances are measured from the nearest exterior wall of the proposed use to the nearest property line of the protected use, and the buffer is locked in as of the date the city deems the adult use development permit application complete.

, exterior areas must be lit to at least one and one-half footcandles, viewing booths cannot be enclosed or fitted with 'glory holes,' and an on-site manager at least eighteen (or twenty-one if alcohol is served) must be registered with the city administrator to receive complaints. 040(G), issued or denied within fifteen days of a complete application. 120, and can deny it outright if an owner or officer pleaded no contest to a sex-related misdemeanor or felony within the past four years. 24 and are not governed by this chapter.