West Bountiful City Zoning Code
17.64 Sexually
Oriented Businesses
17.64.010 Purpose
The purpose and objective of this chapter is to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the concentration of sexually-oriented businesses or their location in areas deleterious to the city, regulate the signage of such businesses, control the adverse effects of such signage, and prevent inappropriate exposure of such businesses to the community. This chapter is to be construed as a regulation of time, place and manner of the operation of these businesses, consistent with the United States and Utah Constitutions.
17.64.020 Location Of Businesses: Restrictions
- Outcall services shall be permitted in areas zoned L-I, light industrial.
- Sexually-oriented businesses, except outcall services, shall only be permitted in areas zoned L-I, light industrial, subject to the following additional restrictions:
No sexually-oriented business shall be located:- Within one thousand (1,000) feet of any school, public park, library or religious institution;
- Within six hundred (600) feet of any residential use or any agricultural or residential zoning boundary;
- Within six hundred (600) feet of any other sexually-oriented business, except outcall services;
- Within three hundred fifty (350) feet of any gateway corridor. The distance shall be measured from the right-of-way boundary.
- 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.
- 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.
17.64.030 Effect On Nonconforming Businesses
All existing legal, nonconforming sexually-oriented businesses, as of the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, or any amendment hereto, shall comply with the provisions of this chapter within nine months from the date said ordinance is enacted.
17.64.040 Signs
Notwithstanding anything contrary contained in Chapter 17.48, the more restrictive requirements for signs shall prevail. Signs for sexually-oriented businesses shall be limited as follows:
- No more than one exterior sign shall be allowed.
- No sign shall be allowed to exceed eighteen (18) square feet.
- No animation shall be permitted on or around any sign or on the exterior walls or roof of such premises.
- No descriptive art or designs depicting any activity related to or inferring the nature of the business shall be allowed on any sign. Signs shall contain alphanumeric copy only.
- Only flat wall signs and/or awning signs shall be permitted.
- Painted wall advertising shall not be allowed.
- Other than the signs specifically allowed by this chapter, 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.
17.64.050 Definitions
Terms involving sexually-oriented businesses which are not defined in this title shall have the meanings set forth in Section 5.20.040.