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Council Concerned New Rules Go Too Far
POSTED: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
UPDATED: 7:16 pm EDT June 17, 2009
DETROIT — Strip club owners and dancers showed up in downtown Detroit Wednesday to protest rule changes for strip clubs.
The new rules would put some distance between strippers and customers and ban alcohol consumption inside the clubs.
Detroit City Council took up the new rules during a meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Strip Club Owners Don’t Want New Rules
The city has about 30 topless bars. If the new rules are approved, topless dancers would remain six feet from the patrons and on a stage at all times. There would also be no lap dancing and no mingling in so-called VIP rooms.
The proposed changes follow a court battle in which a federal judge in 2007 struck down Detroit’s regulations on where strip clubs could open and ordered them rewritten.
The rule that concerned council members the most was no alcohol inside the strip clubs.
“The two just go hand and hand. It’s like a casino. Is anyone going to go to a casino that doesn’t serve alcohol? Is anyone going to go to a sports bar to watch the Red Wings or the Pistons and not want to have a beer? Come on,” said Ken Cockrel Jr., Detroit City Council President.
Club owners said the rule changes would put them out of business.
The council has been under intense pressure from church groups to crack down on the clubs. Thirty-one of them are now licensed to operate in the city and that is about 40 percent of the total for the entire state.
The city is already facing lawsuits for refusing to transfer some club licenses. Council member Sheila Cockrel fears more litigation. “I’m not voting for any of these because it’s constitutionally protected behavior even if I think it’s disgusting,” said Cockrel.
The new rules would also keep new strip clubs 1,000 feet away from schools, churches or other strip clubs.
Strip Club owners appeared happy after the meeting because it appears the council members think the new rules go too far, but the issue still has a long way to go before a final decision is made on the rules.
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