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Wasatch County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 16

31: SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES

16.31.01: LOCATION OF BUSINESSES; RESTRICTIONS

  1. Adult/sexually oriented facilities and businesses, may be constructed or operated as conditional uses within the areas zoned I or C, subject to the following additional restrictions:

    No sexually oriented business shall be located:
    1. Within one thousand feet (1,000') of any public or private school, public building, public or private recreation facilities, daycare centers, public park, hospital, public library or religious institution.
    2. Within six hundred feet (600') of any residential use or any residential/agricultural zoning boundary.
    3. Within six hundred feet (600') of any other sexually oriented business, except outcall services.
    4. Within three hundred fifty feet (350') of any gateway corridor. The distance shall be measured from the right of way boundary.
  2. Distance requirements between structures and uses specified in this section shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or zoning districts, from the property boundaries of the school, public park, religious or cultural activity, residential use, or other sexually oriented business, or from the right of way line of a gateway to the structure of the sexually oriented business.
  3. Distance requirements from zoning districts for this section shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or zoning districts, from the closest zoning boundary of a residential or agricultural district to the sexually oriented business structure. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 01-05 on 11/26/2001

16.31.02: EFFECT ON NONCONFORMING BUSINESSES

All existing legal, nonconforming sexually oriented businesses, as of the effective date hereof, or any amendment hereto, shall comply with the provisions of this chapter within nine (9) months from the date this title is enacted. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 01-05 on 11/26/2001

16.31.03: SIGNS

Notwithstanding anything contrary contained in the Wasatch County code or the code of any of its incorporated cities involved, the more restrictive requirements for signs shall prevail. Signs for sexually oriented businesses shall be limited as follows:
  1. Signs for such business shall require a permit as outlined in chapter 16.26, "Sign Regulations", of this title.
  2. No descriptive art or designs depicting any activity related to or inferring the nature of the business shall be allowed on any sign. Said signs shall contain alphanumeric copy only.
  3. Other than the signs specifically allowed by this chapter and the applicable sign regulations, the sexually oriented business shall not attach, construct, or allow to be attached or constructed, any temporary sign, banner, light or other device designed to draw attention to the business location, without a permit approved by the planning commission. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 01-05 on 11/26/2001

16.31.04: LOCATION AND LAND USE RESTRICTIONS

  1. It is unlawful for any sexually oriented business to do business at any location within the county not zoned for such business.
  2. Sexually oriented businesses licensed as adult businesses or seminude entertainment businesses pursuant to this chapter shall only be allowed in areas zoned for their use pursuant to this title. 

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 01-05 on 11/26/2001
Amended by Ord. 2005-18 on 3/9/2006