Frisco City Council recently reviewed the city’s ordinance regarding sexually oriented businesses, which can include a modeling studio, adult bookstore or adult movie theater. The council reviews the ordinance every few years.

During the review, the council decided to reference recent studies about these businesses in the ordinance as resources for regulating these businesses. Generally, sexually oriented businesses are allowed to operate as an expression of free speech under the First Amendment. State law, however, allows cities to regulate the businesses in several ways, such as restricting how close a sexually oriented business is to certain buildings and requiring owners to post signs in bathrooms with contact information for the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

Frisco’s ordinance requires businesses to be licensed with the city. It also requires these businesses to be more than 1,000 feet from places such as schools, places of worship and residential districts.