Seattle Strip Clubs: Take me out to the strip club? Judge says play ball – Seattle Post Intelligencer
Take me out to the strip club? Judge says play ball
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Erlick rejected the Mariners assertion that the City Council meant to keep strip clubs at least 800 feet away from “areas where children congregate” or sports arenas. That language is absent from the city ordinance drafted after Seattle’s wholesale ban on new strip clubs was rejected as unconstitutional.
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Buck dismissed the Mariners’ assertions that children would be harmed by the strip club as specious.
Buck noted that a Déjà Vu club across First Avenue from Pike Place Market has done little to discourage or offend tourists there. And, like all Washington state strip clubs, the proposed facility will not serve alcohol.
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Erlick’s ruling marked the first serious test of the 4-year-old restrictions on where strip clubs can be. Buck praised it as showing that business owners can get a fair shake, regardless of the business they’re in.
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