Rules for Sexually Oriented Businesses

How in the world could an SOB like a studio be located right next to a church in Dallas? I thought that there were rules about location - is there some kind of special dispensation that allows that?

Read the local ordinances that concern sexually oriented businesses and you will have your answer. I am not familiar enough with with the City of Dallas or Dallas County ordinances to give an answer, but Texas state law gives the local governments the authority to regulate the location of a sexually oriented business.

Dallas city code requires 1000 feet from the outside wall of the SOB to the lot line of a church or school measured in a straight line. Where are you talking about?

There's a strip club in Pittsburgh that is next door to a high school and another one outside of Pittsburgh that is next door to a daycare center. Both of the strip clubs were there first. The school and day care center were opened years after the clubs were there.

That grandfathered the strip clubs so that they're allowed to be in locations that they'd normally never get a permit to operate.

Sometimes, what looks like and even acts like a "strip club" such as Sugars in San Antonio is not an sob per se due to the latex nipple coverings.

Interesting that the OP is not here now, it is.

SOBs are generally defined and regulated by city ordinances or county zoning regulations l The definitions of what constitutes an SOB is always set out in the ordinance or regulation. Irrespective of who covers up what, the definitional section will dictate what nude dancing is, and will regulate the club and outside distances from a direct line to the nearest other structure or zone. That is also defined.