Clandestino
12-15-2004, 09:15 AM
clandestino: come on..the city council needs to worry about more important matters.. namely CPS...we even have the state being forced to come in and try to clean up the worthless office...
LAST UPDATE: 12/15/2004 6:55:29 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
The City of San Antonio is going to try again tomorrow to force strippers to cover up and pay up.
A revised 'human display ordinance' which is set to come before city council, is written to resolve some of the controversies which have resulted in previous laws being challenged in court, 1200 WOAI's Bud Little reported today.
"We have revised the ordinance to learn from the experience of other cities," City Attorney Andy Martin said.
The proposal will ban totally nude dancing, eliminate 'lap dancing' by requiring that the dancers come no closer than three feet to customers, and the law will revise those 'stripper fees,' included in former City Manager Terry Brechtel's 2005 budget but also blocked by a court challenge.
The fees would charge adult businesses $375 a year,, $100 a year to strip club managers, and $75 for the strippers themselves.
"We think everything we're suggesting here is well within the scope of what has been upheld by the courts in the past, and we feel that if the industry decides to mount a challenge to these laws, we will be totally within the law," Martin said.
He said the laws will also cover adult bookstores and video stores, which are spreading across the community.
Martin says the law is needed to eliminate what he calls the 'secondary effects' of the strip clubs, including prostitution and illegal drug activity.
The city has been fighting for years, and has used various means to try to rein in the booming business of 'gentlemen's clubs,' especially along the northeast side, but has frequently found its efforts stymied in the courts.
LAST UPDATE: 12/15/2004 6:55:29 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
The City of San Antonio is going to try again tomorrow to force strippers to cover up and pay up.
A revised 'human display ordinance' which is set to come before city council, is written to resolve some of the controversies which have resulted in previous laws being challenged in court, 1200 WOAI's Bud Little reported today.
"We have revised the ordinance to learn from the experience of other cities," City Attorney Andy Martin said.
The proposal will ban totally nude dancing, eliminate 'lap dancing' by requiring that the dancers come no closer than three feet to customers, and the law will revise those 'stripper fees,' included in former City Manager Terry Brechtel's 2005 budget but also blocked by a court challenge.
The fees would charge adult businesses $375 a year,, $100 a year to strip club managers, and $75 for the strippers themselves.
"We think everything we're suggesting here is well within the scope of what has been upheld by the courts in the past, and we feel that if the industry decides to mount a challenge to these laws, we will be totally within the law," Martin said.
He said the laws will also cover adult bookstores and video stores, which are spreading across the community.
Martin says the law is needed to eliminate what he calls the 'secondary effects' of the strip clubs, including prostitution and illegal drug activity.
The city has been fighting for years, and has used various means to try to rein in the booming business of 'gentlemen's clubs,' especially along the northeast side, but has frequently found its efforts stymied in the courts.