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.
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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