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<div>What is this place that you have never heard of that has seven strip clubs?&nbsp;<br />
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You might think that it had some sort of strip club red-light district, but that is not the case.&nbsp;While Bliss and Miss Kitty&rsquo;s are within sight of each other and Spearmint Rhino and Synn might be considered within walking distance of each other the clubs otherwise are quite spread out.&nbsp;This has to do with the unique character of the city.&nbsp;It snakes along the two main eastbound rail lines from Los Angeles plus the Pomona Freeway.&nbsp;Thus it is long and narrow.&nbsp;<br />
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The other thing that defines the City of Industry is that almost nobody lives there.&nbsp;You might see some homes not far from the strip clubs there but be assured those homes are in other cities.&nbsp;When the city was laid out, and as it was expanded and rezoned, every possible effort was made to avoid any residential areas.&nbsp;In order to make the minimum population for incorporation the permanent residents of the Lanterman Developmental Center (a mental hospital) was included.&nbsp;The normal population of the city is only a few hundred.&nbsp;Typically municipal elections might get around 40 votes.&nbsp;Thus the City of Industry might have as little as one strip club for every 50 adult males!<br />
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<div>With such a small city population the potential candidate pool for the city council is pretty small.&nbsp;But as small as the population is the number of landowners is far smaller.&nbsp;Only a handful of companies own essentially all of the land in the city, in particular the gigantic Majestic Realty company.&nbsp;So nearly all of those citizens have Majestic or one of the other landowners as employer or landlord.<br />
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<div>So there are very few citizens and those live far away from the clubs.&nbsp;Moreover the main reason the concerned citizens really want to crack down on strip clubs&hellip;that they hurt property values&hellip;is irrelevant because all of the land that might be affected within the city limits is already industrial or commercial.</div>
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So it is sort of a semi-feudal setup where everybody is aligned on the same direction, whatever makes more money for the landowner is good.</div>
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The City of Industry is a contract city.&nbsp;That means that they get all of their public services including police protection from the County.&nbsp;That means the city sets the budget for the number of police that they will be paying for.&nbsp;With the pro-business bent of the city you can be certain that theft from the many massive warehouses is a much higher priority than whether somebody is getting a too-intimate lap dance at the Hawaii Theatre.</div>
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Of course the homeowners in the other cities only a few blocks away might disagree, but disagreements over land use between Industry and its neighbors are a longstanding pattern.&nbsp;For example there was the failed proposal to build a giant facility for loading trash onto trains for delivery to landfills in the desert.&nbsp;And more recently squabbles over plans to build a stadium and entertainment complex to attract a NFL team.</div>
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So the City of Industry is kind of a unique place, the equivalent of a company town for a few real estate developers where businesses, even strip clubs, are king.</div>