Zoning Keeps a Strip Club Closed
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Detroit strip clubs
Zoning is one of the tools that local governments can use to regulate or destroy strip clubs. In this case a club in a suburb north of Detroit tried to expand but was ruled to have exceeded the variance it received. The club cannot finish the construction and remains closed.
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/201…
I never visited Jon Jon's because I always heard the few strip clubs in the northern suburbs were lame. I met a dancer who had danced at Jon Jon's before it closed, and she gave good full contact dances but no extras.
Local government officials have the power to restrict strip clubs. We strip club fans need to tell the officials that we don't want restrictions and that we vote. I wish we had the lobbying strength of the NRA.
http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/201…
I never visited Jon Jon's because I always heard the few strip clubs in the northern suburbs were lame. I met a dancer who had danced at Jon Jon's before it closed, and she gave good full contact dances but no extras.
Local government officials have the power to restrict strip clubs. We strip club fans need to tell the officials that we don't want restrictions and that we vote. I wish we had the lobbying strength of the NRA.
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Another strip club, but in the L.A. area, the Hawaii Theater in Industry, CA ran into a similar problem, due to its nonconforming status. The essence is, that once a property or business owner who has been determined to be nonconforming, time is limited to remain in business at that location, and any expansion usually isn't worthwile.
Well, that depends on if the nonconforming status was because of the building itself (i.e., the setbacks, height limit, or allowable floor area ratio/lot coverage, etc. changed), or because of the building's use. Where I live, if a conflicting use moves into the restricted radius around an adult establishment, they've basically got 5 years to shut down. But if you build a building and then the zoning envelope gets more restrictive, your building is allowed to stay the way it is forever, and you can probably even rebuild it the same way it was if there's some sort of disaster. I can't look at the article to see which kind of issue this club had (browser gives heavy malware warnings), but either one is possible.
The thing I don't understand is, didn't they have to go in and apply for a building permit and get zoning approval prior to building anything?