Council plan to keep strip clubs away from churches

[Barrylb]

The Mercury, July 21:

"THE Hobart City Council is proposing tough new regulations for strip clubs.

Strip clubs would be banned within 200m of schools, childcare centres and churches under the planning scheme changes being considered. A planning report also has recommended that clubs featuring full or part-nudity not be allowed to operate at street level and that suggestive signage should be banned....

The planning rules, drafted after detailed legal advice, would mean clubs would have to be at least 200m from a residential zone, school, childcare centre, place of worship, bed and breakfast accommodation or playground.

Signage would only be allowed to carry the name of the club and could not make reference to the activities inside."

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/07/21/85681_tasmania-news.html

Does anyone know if such regulations exist elsewhere?

[Mister Pervert]

The Mercury, July 21:

"THE Hobart City Council is proposing tough new regulations for strip clubs.

Strip clubs would be banned within 200m of schools, childcare centres and churches under the planning scheme changes being considered. A planning report also has recommended that clubs featuring full or part-nudity not be allowed to operate at street level and that suggestive signage should be banned....

The planning rules, drafted after detailed legal advice, would mean clubs would have to be at least 200m from a residential zone, school, childcare centre, place of worship, bed and breakfast accommodation or playground.

Signage would only be allowed to carry the name of the club and could not make reference to the activities inside."

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/07/21/85681_tasmania-news.html

Does anyone know if such regulations exist elsewhere?

Mr Black already commented - but here is a bit of backstory and opinion.

In QLD, way back when Wayne Goss got voted in, he campaigned on a promise platform of "legalizing" many (ancient) activities such as prostitution that existed - but only illegally because of governmental corruption, under the Nationals and their business partners.

When he finally got around to signing off on "new laws", he revealed himself (and the Labor Party generally) as being just as big a bullshit artist as the government he replaced. In many respects, I'd say even worse, because the "new laws" enacted actually put people who work in the sex industry - not just at risk - at least two I know quite possibly died (violent, brutal deaths).

Under Goss (in QLD), prostitution got legalized to a point that only a camel-committee would see has any real, logistical sense.

Thin-edge of the wedge...

The "prostitution laws" enacted by Goss, in QLD, are now used by residents in affluent suburbs to - get this! - have school "bells" banned - because it disturbs them - even though they stupidly bought houses right next to school playgrounds.

Prostitutes are, at least, quiet.

[KeithW]

The whole issue came about because about 3 years ago a local bar closed down and was then leased to another owner. The property is actually owned by the church and is about 10 feet from St David's Cathedral in Macquarie Street Hobart.

The new owner turned it into a pole dancing club that obviously outraged the Church, due to regulations at the time there was nothing they could do about it.