Adult video store to open in heavily-trafficked part of Columbia

By Dawn Hinshaw McClatchy Newspapers

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An adult video store is opening on Columbia’s Devine Street, not far from where a highly anticipated natural foods grocery is expected to open next year.

The storefront – painted an eye-catching plum color – meets city restrictions that govern the location of sexually oriented shops, since it is more than 500 feet from churches, schools, homes, playgrounds and cemeteries, said zoning administrator Johnathan Chambers.

Chambers said he got about 15 phone calls about the new business as word circulated among neighborhood and political leaders. The address, 4716 Devine St., previously was a Taco Bell.

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According to a business license application on file with the city, the business will be called Taboo Adult Superstore.

Chambers could not immediately say how many other adult businesses, if any, there are in the city.

Columbia Council of Neighborhoods leader Tige Watts said the unexpected sight of an adult business on heavily traveled Devine Street, near where it changes names to Garners Ferry Road, emphasized the need for new regulations on aesthetics for such businesses.

“You and I both know they’re going to put up neon signs,” Watts said. “It’s going to be a big eyesore.”

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