Roseville, MN Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Chapter 1014 of the Roseville City Code is a land-use chapter. Section 1014.01 states its purpose as establishing provisions for the opportunity as well as controls of sexually oriented uses within the city. Section 1014.03(a) sets the spacing rule: a sexually oriented principal use must be at least 1,320 radial feet, measured in a straight line, from the closest point of the property line of its building to the property line of another sexually oriented principal use, churches, daycare centers, on-sale or off-sale liquor establishments, public libraries, public or private schools and government office buildings, public parks and other public recreation facilities, or residentially zoned property. Subsection (b) classifies all principal use activities as one use, and no two principal uses can be located in the same building or upon the same property.

Section 1014.02 adds general limits. Activities classified as obscene under Minn. Stat. § 617.241 are prohibited. A sexually oriented use, principal or accessory, cannot locate in any building also used for residential purposes, or in any building also licensed to sell intoxicating liquor, non-intoxicating malt liquor or wine. A use that does not qualify as accessory is classified as a principal use.

Signs for principal uses follow Section 1014.03(c). Sign messages must be generic and identify only the type of business being conducted, signage cannot contain material classified as advertising, and signs must meet the size and number limits of the district.

Section 1014.04 covers accessory uses, such as a store that carries some adult merchandise. They can take up no more than ten percent of the floor area, with the maximum floor area for these uses capped at 1,000 square feet, and no more than 20 percent of the gross receipts of the entire business. They can involve only the sale or rental of merchandise, must be physically separated from minors, with magazines covered by a wrapper, and cannot be advertised or signed internally or externally. The four sections of Chapter 1014 set location, sign and accessory-use limits and print no license fee.