Overview
- The City Council has sent a four-part package on adult sex venues, where consenting adults may have sex, to staff and committee review with public hearings to follow.
- The measures would set up licenses for venues, update zoning terms, revise health and sanitation rules, and add indecency-code exceptions for licensed sites.
- Sponsors Elliott Payne and Jason Chavez say regulated spaces would center consent and let health teams offer condoms, testing, and vaccinations.
- A spokesperson for Mayor Jacob Frey said he supports continued study, and a final vote is expected in June after public input.
- Minneapolis banned bathhouses in 1988 during the AIDS crisis, the last legal club closed that year, and the council removed stigmatizing code language in 2023.