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

Sec. 5105 covers bookstores, theaters, motion picture arcades, cabarets, model studios, and sexual encounter centers where a preponderant share of the business emphasizes specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas. Every such business must sit in a C-3 district and stay at least 500 feet from any residentially zoned or used property, 500 feet from any school, park, playground, public building, or church, and 1,500 feet from any other sex-oriented entertainment business, with distances measured property line to property line. Windows and doors must be screened so the interior cannot be viewed from outside, and no sexually explicit advertising or merchandise may be visible from a public right-of-way.

Operators must staff security at a ratio of one guard per ten parking spaces, ban loitering and alcohol consumption in the parking lot, and post signage saying so. Wall signage is capped at 20 square feet, 25 square feet on a corner lot, and none may be visible from a state highway. and midnight. A property owner who cannot meet the locational buffers may apply to the Planning Commission for a waiver, but only after a hearing and only on specific findings that the use will not harm nearby properties, encourage blight, or conflict with neighborhood conservation or urban renewal plans.