New Orleans Strip Clubs: New zoning, scrutiny of bars seen as tools to transform Fat City
July 5, 2010
An ambitious plan could impose new zoning standards that gradually could eliminate strip clubs like this one on Edenborn Avenue.
An ambitious plan is in the works to impose new zoning standards gradually eliminating strip clubs and converting Fat City into a pleasant town center appealing to families, shoppers and diners. It likely won’t be implemented until late this year, but in the meantime, Parish Councilwoman Cynthia Lee-Sheng, whose district includes the neighborhood, is using the parish’s alcohol permit rules to target Fat City bars.
In March, the Parish Council revived a committee that hadn’t met since the 1980s to review the alcohol permit of the Forum Club, a bar at 3208 N. Arnoult Road where sheriff’s deputies made a series of arrests for underage drinking. The council then denied the bar’s permit in April, at Lee-Sheng’s urging.
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The new codes will call for phasing out the district’s remaining strip clubs. They will impose the new standards as businesses change hands and reopen under different formats.
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