Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit bans lap dances in strip clubs; let the exodus begin
February 24, 2010 at 7:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAs if the city of Detroit didn’t already have a massive parting of the Red sea, this new strip club law certainly won’t help.
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.The vote was 6-3, with Kwame Kenyatta, JoAnn Watson and Brenda Jones dissenting. The council voted unanimously to pass new zoning regulations limiting where new clubs could open.
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I guess the strip club owners, as shady as they may be, didn’t have the pull or the cash flow to bribe politicians this time around. If former mayor and pimp extraordinaire Kwame Kilpatrick were still in office, this wouldn’t have been a problem. The man single-handedly kept three strip clubs open with his own “personal business” on a Friday night.
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Considering the topic at hand is strippers, let’s keep future references to “fish” at a minimum, shall we?
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Detroit Strip Clubs: City Councilman Equates Crackdown on Strip Clubs to Racial Discrimination
February 24, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCity Councilman Equates Crackdown on Strip Clubs to Racial Discrimination
Detroit, MI: Officials within the city government have been attempting to pass ordinances that would shut down strip clubs in Detroit, a motion that City Council President Charles Pugh equates with racial discrimination.
Appearing on a religious radio program, Pugh claimed that the crackdown on the 33 clubs within the city limits was unjust and that officials had targeted these businesses unduly. During the interview the city councilman twice referenced to the civil rights movement to support his arguments.
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Pugh’s comments came only hours after a contentious debate with Reverend Martin L Winans at the city council chambers over the crackdown. Winans and his supporters want to impose laws that would ban so-called VIP rooms, require strip club employees to be licensed and relegate performers to an 18-inch tall stage, effectively banning lap dances.
Pugh believes that the council’s efforts would be better served policing these establishments to cut back on crimes within and around strip clubs.
Detroit Strip Clubs: West End singin’ the blues while fans await Windsor’s fate
February 24, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsTowns could not be reached on Tuesday, but Don Matthews, owner of the La Salle and Woodbine hotels, confirmed that he, too, had heard that Towns was taking over the Windsor.
Winnipegger Sukhi Gill, listed as one of the Windsor’s current owners, could not be reached. Her telephone line was not in service on Tuesday.
In January, Kennedy garnered media attention when she organized a rally in front of the hotel after she heard that it had been sold and was slated for demolition. At the time, Gill denied that it was even for sale.
Kennedy now concedes there was no truth to the demolition rumour, but she has collected 3,000 names on a petition which she has presented to the city’s historical buildings committee in hopes of derailing future problems.
“We hope to God to uphold the Windsor,” she says. “We don’t want it to be another pit to get drunk in and watch strippers.”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Letters: Restrictions for strip clubs?
February 24, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsLetters: Restrictions for strip clubs?
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Since the Rev. Marvin L. Winans Sr. of Perfecting Church insists topless bar reforms (such as dancers wearing pasties, creating 18-inch-high dancing platforms and banning alcohol) would be good for Detroit and its few remaining businesses, there’s no need to change the rules. The reverend should simply open an alcohol-less pasty bar of his own and set an example the other bars will surely follow — or go out of business.
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Detroit has the majority of strip clubs in Michigan. Studies have proved that there is an increase in robbery, prostitution and other crimes where strip clubs are allowed to proliferate. Yet, the Feb. 18 editorial “Clothes off” suggests the residents of Detroit just need to live with the strip clubs because Detroit can’t attract any other taxpaying businesses. Well, part of the reason we can’t attract other businesses is that few viable companies would like to locate in a community next to a strip club.
Detroit Strip Clubs: City Council approves strip club rules
February 24, 2010 at 1:01 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCity Council approves strip club rules
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The rules would outlaw VIP rooms, touching between strippers and patrons, require licenses for most employees, limit dancers to 18-inch tall stages and bar new clubs from opening on Eight Mile. But the council shelved proposals from last year that would have required dancers to wear opaque pasties and outlaw alcohol at the club.
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Also Tuesday, the council unanimously approved paying $18,750 to Mike Dabish, a business owner who wanted to build a strip club on the site of a former go-cart track on Eight Mile. He sued in 2008 after the city denied a permit even though the area was zoned industrial, a designation under which he could have opened.
The city has paid out a combined $665,000 to two other strip clubs who sued over city regulations since 2007. Other suits are pending.
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