Simi Valley, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)
Key Facts
- Allowed zone
- Sexually Oriented Business Overlay Zone only
- Spacing rule
- 500 ft from other SOB or Oak Park
- Permit issuer
- Chief of Police
- Annual permit fee
- $100 unless raised by resolution
- Review window
- 30 days to grant or deny
- One per building
- No stacking two SOBs together
Summary
Sexually oriented businesses may only operate inside Simi Valley's Sexually Oriented Business Overlay Zone, and even there must sit at least 500 feet from any other such business and from Oak Park. Operators need a Chief of Police-issued regulatory permit costing $100 a year before opening.
No sexually oriented business shall be established or located in any zone in the City of Simi Valley other than the Sexually Oriented Business Overlay Zone and within that zone within certain distances as set forth below: (a)No such business shall be established or located within 500 feet of any other sexually oriented business.(b)No such business shall be established or located within 500 feet from Oak Park.(c)Measurement of the distances set forth above shall be a straight line from the primary entrance of the sexually oriented business to the primary entrance of the property so zoned or used without regard to intervening structures and to the property line of Oak Park...(e)No person shall cause or permit the operation, establishment, or maintenance of more than one sexually oriented business in the same building, structure, or any portion thereof.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 51).
Full Breakdown
103 confines sexually oriented businesses to a single zoning designation: the Sexually Oriented Business Overlay Zone. Inside that overlay, distance rules still apply. No such business may locate within 500 feet of any other sexually oriented business, and none may locate within 500 feet of Oak Park; distances are measured as a straight line between primary entrances, or to Oak Park's property line, ignoring intervening buildings. A single building may not house more than one sexually oriented business at a time; each use is treated as a separate business for permitting purposes.
201, submitting fingerprints, a photograph, past employment history for five years, and disclosure of any convictions under specified Penal Code sections. The Chief of Police has thirty days to investigate and grant or deny the application; if no decision issues within that window, the applicant may begin operating subject to the chapter's development and performance standards. The annual permit fee is $100 unless the City Council raises it by resolution. 105.
Violations & Fines
Operating outside the overlay zone, violating the 500-foot spacing rule, running without a Chief of Police permit, or housing more than one sexually oriented business in a single building violates Chapter 5-8. Violations are grounds for the Chief of Police to deny or revoke the regulatory permit, and unpermitted operation is enforceable under the City's general Title 1 misdemeanor and infraction penalty schedule.
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Sources & Official References
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