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TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · TOWN AND COUNTY ORDINANCE RECORD
Legislation about the category is part of the documented record, so the ban attempt was searched for as a thing in itself: ordinances introduced against sexually oriented businesses or clubs of this category, council action on them, and outcomes, in the town of Osceola and in St. Joseph County. No summer-2019 pair of sexually-oriented-business ordinances — the floor instance's pattern — and no ban attempt of any date against a club of this category was found for this ground in the ordinance, council-minute or press record reached: that is a tested negative, printed as one. What legislates about the category on this ground is a standing regime, not an attempt aimed at a club. The unincorporated township ground — the ground the Ash Road store stands on — is zoned under the St. Joseph County Zoning Ordinance, Article 6, §6.01, "Regulations for Controlled Uses": "adult business" is a closed list of uses, admitted only by special exception in the C Commercial and GI General Industrial districts, with 1,000 feet required between controlled uses and 500 feet from residential districts and dwellings and from religious, school, park and child-care uses. A swingers club, a couples' social club and a members-only sex club are nowhere named in the list — the category the ordinance legislates about is the adult business, defined by what it sells and shows, and a social club of this kind stands outside the list's words as the record gives them. Inside the town line, Osceola's own zoning was adopted by Ordinance No. 15-1996 (the adoption the banked government fragment carries); no sexually-oriented-business ordinance of the town appears in the record reached. The one ordinance war this county's adult trade did produce is Mishawaka's Ordinance 44-15, fought to the Seventh Circuit in Beutter — the neighbouring city's legislation about its own Pleasureland store, boundary material, pointed to in art-70-4 and not retold.
Sources: St. Joseph County Zoning Ordinance, Art. 6, §6.01 (county Document Center), read November 2026; banked government fragment for the town's zoning adoption, Ordinance No. 15-1996; town and county ordinance and council-minute record as openly indexed, searched November 2026.