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.
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