Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit Council Approves Strip Club Regulations
February 23, 2010 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsPosted: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 5:45PMDetroit Council Approves Strip Club Regulations
– Detroit City Council has approved two ordinances that crack down on strip clubs and what goes on inside the businesses.
One of the ordinances deals with zoning laws and will restrict where the clubs are located. The second ordinance deals with licensing and will restrict dancers from touching patrons. The votes were 6-3.
Larry Kaplan, executive director of the Association of Club Executives of Michigan says the new regulations will create challenges.
“I think this will diminish our businesses, as we explained to them if you are used to getting a whopper with fries and a shake and you don’t have the shake anymore customers may go elsewhere,” Kaplan told WWJ’s Stephanie Davis, adding the club owners will work with the city on their concerns.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit passes new rules on strip clubs
February 23, 2010 at 11:24 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe Rev. Marvin Winans of Detroit’s Perfecting Church speaks out against the watered-down strip club regulations at a hearing Monday. (Brandy Baker / The Detroit News)
Last Updated: February 23. 2010 7:52PM
Detroit passes new rules on strip clubs
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –The City Council approved a crackdown on the city’s 31 topless clubs today that bans VIP rooms and lap dancing, but still allows them to serve booze.
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Strip club owners and employees said the crackdown would cripple their business, but after the vote, Larry Kaplan of the Association of Club Executives said they would “do our best to live within the restrictions.”
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The city’s topless clubs employ about 6,800 workers and pay about $3 million a year in property taxes. The city is home to 40 percent of the 77 strip clubs statewide.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor not picture-perfect on Google
February 23, 2010 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCouncil voted Monday night to contact Google and ask the internet giant to return and take photographs of the Ontario city again.
The Google cameras were in the city one day in the summer of 2009.
However, the newly released street-level photographs captured the city in the middle of a 15-week civic workers’ strike, with unkempt gardens, overflowing garbage bins, and striking workers on the picket line.
Google Street View cameras photographed the scene of a fatal stabbing outside a strip club on Wyandotte Street East on July 21, 2009. Google has since removed this image.
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When Google launched Windsor Street View on Feb. 9, CBC News also discovered visitors to the website were shown images of a homicide scene outside Leopard’s Lounge strip club, complete with police cars and yellow tape.
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit to consider strip club rules at 3:30 pm
February 23, 2010 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLast Updated: February 23. 2010 12:28PM
Detroit to consider strip club rules at 3:30 p.m.
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –The City Council is expected to vote about 3:30 p.m. today on topless club regulations that would ban VIP rooms and touching but — to the chagrin of religious leaders — not alcohol.
The vote comes one day after more than 500 people attended a 3 1/2 hour public hearing on the issue. The majority backed tougher regulations, which included the alcohol prohibition and opaque pasties that the council has abandoned.
The council is pursuing a ban on VIP rooms, a requirement that most employees be licensed and a requirement that dancers perform only on an 18-inch tall stage, which essentially bans lap dancing. Club owners say the rules also ban touching, even when dancers are clothed.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor seeks Google reshoot
February 23, 2010 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… A Windsor Police car watches of the scene of a fatal stabbing in the parking lot of Leopard’s Lounge and Broil in Windsor on July 21, 2009, which until recently was viewable on Google’s new Street View version of Windsor.Photograph by: Tyler Brownbridge, The Windsor Star
After successfully working to rid Windsor’s streetscape of a bloody murder scene, Coun. Ron Jones now wants internet giant Google to add flowers and cleaner parks.
“That’s not Windsor,” Jones said of what visitors see when they use Google Maps’ Street View function to navigate local streets and scenery.
Within days of adding the 3-D photographic perspective to local streets for internet users around the globe wanting to browse what 130 Canadian cities and towns have to offer, Google Canada agreed to remove a scene of crime tape and bloodied bandages outside west-end strip club Leopard’s Lounge and Broil, where Nicholas Ingram, 24, was fatally stabbed July 21.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Michigan News — Riddle’s lawyers off the case; new trial in July
February 23, 2010 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDETROIT (AP) – A Detroit political consultant will get a new legal team for a second trial on corruption charges. A federal judge on Monday granted a request by Sam Riddle’s lawyers to drop out of the case. Riddle had no objection, saying he wants attorneys who are “bare-knuckled fighters” when he goes to trial July 12 on charges of conspiracy and extortion. A mistrial was declared last week when a jury failed to reach a verdict. Riddle is accused of working with Monica Conyers to collect bribes when she was on the Detroit City Council. He faces trial in a separate federal corruption case on June 1. Riddle is accused of arranging bribes to pave the way for a pawn shop in Southfield.
DETROIT STRIP CLUBS Detroit strip club hearing draws pastors, dancers
DETROIT (AP) – Hundreds of strip club opponents and a smaller number of employees and other supporters of the clubs have packed a Detroit City Council hearing on whether to tighten adult business r …
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Detroit Strip Clubs: Rebuttal: Regulate strip clubs to protect Detroit
February 23, 2010 at 4:36 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsRebuttal: Regulate strip clubs to protect Detroit
The contention of the Feb. 18 editorial (”Clothes off: Ministers’ attempt to take the naked out of strip clubs will kill taxpaying businesses”) that Detroit’s regulations for sexually oriented businesses have “worked reasonably well to mitigate their negative effects on the community” demonstrates that editorial board members do not live near any such businesses.
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Detroit has less than 10 percent of Michigan’s population, but nearly half of the state’s strip clubs. In part, Oakland County became one of the most affluent counties in the country after then-Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson targeted strip clubs by impeding their operation. The clubs often would sue and win, but the cost of litigation eventually forced them to leave.
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The serving of alcohol makes strip clubs a target for criminals — drunken patrons will not report crimes committed against them for fear of being discovered and are more likely to commit lewd sex acts outside of the clubs (which happens a lot in Detroit).
Detroit Strip Clubs: Council may vote today on Detroit strip club rules
February 23, 2010 at 3:01 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCouncil may vote today on Detroit strip club rules
Christine MacDonald and Leonard N. Fleming / The Detroit News
Detroit –The City Council could vote as early as today on a contentious strip club crackdown that drew more than 500 people to City Hall on Monday for a marathon public hearing.
The sometimes raucous crowd was dominated by religious leaders and residents who urged council members to reinstitute a proposed alcohol ban and rule that topless dancers wear opaque pasties.
“We don’t want our city patterned after Sodom and Gomorrah,” said Jerome Williams, a 61-year-old Detroiter who urged the council to get tough.
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But strip club employees and owners said the rules would not reduce crime and only hurt business in an already struggling city.
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“Some of the people in here I have seen in the strip clubs,” said Buffalo, who added the regulations will cost workers jobs.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Jones feels Google misrepresents Windsor: Wants more flowers
February 23, 2010 at 3:01 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAfter successfully working to rid Windsorâs streetscape of a bloody murder scene, Coun. Ron Jones now wants internet giant Google to add flowers and cleaner parks.
âThatâs not Windsor,â Jones said of what visitors see when they use Google Mapsâ Street View function to navigate local streets and scenery.
Within days of adding the 3-D photographic perspective to local streets for internet users around the globe wanting to browse what 130 Canadian cities and towns have to offer, Google Canada agreed to remove a scene of crime tape and bloodied bandages outside west-end strip club Leopardâs Lounge and Broil, where Nicholas Ingram, 24, was fatally stabbed July 21.
In addition to that murder scene, Googleâs camera cars roamed Windsorâs streets in the midst of last summerâs bitter CUPE labour dispute, capturing countless crystal-clear images of trash in parks, gardens filled with dead flowers and sports fields drowning under overgrown weeds and litter.
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