SB1030

THE CONTEXT: Currently, a county BOS may adopt zoning ordinances to conserve and promote public health, safety, convenience and general welfare. Additionally, statute outlines zoning guidelines and requirements including the BOS may provide for the regulation and use of: 1) Business licenses; 2) Adult-oriented business manager permits; 3) Adult service provider permits in conjunction with the following: a) Adult-oriented businesses and facilities; b) Adult arcades; c) Adult bookstores or video stores; d) Cabarets; e) Adult live entertainment establishments; f) Adult motion picture theaters; g) Adult theaters; h) Massage e...

WHAT THE BILL DID: The final vetoed version would requires, instead of allows, a board of supervisors to adopt zoning ordinances to conserve and promote public health, safety, convenience and general welfare, requires, instead of allows, the zoning ordinance to provide for the regulation and use of business licenses, adult-oriented business manager permits and adult service provider permits in conjunction with the establishment or operation of adult-oriented businesses and facilities, including: a) Adult arcades; b) Adult bookstores or video stores; c) Cabarets; d) Adult live entertainment establishments; e) Adult motion picture theaters; f) Adult theaters; g) Massage establishments; and h) Nude model studios, and add establishments that conduct sexually explicit performances to the list of establishments that must be regulated by the zoning ordinance.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to make a concrete adjustment to the existing rule for sexually explicit performances. It would requires, instead of allows, a board of supervisors to adopt zoning ordinances to conserve and promote public health, safety, convenience and general welfare, and would also requires, instead of allows, the zoning ordinance to provide for the regulation and use of business licenses, adult-oriented business manager permits and adult service provider permits in conjunction with the establishment or operation of adult-oriented businesses and facilities, including: a) Adult arcades; b) Adult bookstores or video stores; c) Cabarets; d) Adult live entertainment establishments; e) Adult motion picture theaters; f) Adult theaters; g) Massage establishments; and h) Nude model studios, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.