Pittsburgh Strip Clubs: City officials squabble over South Side strip club
February 24, 2010
City officials squabble over South Side strip club
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A day after protesters called for an investigation of the process that led to a judge’s approval of a strip club on West Carson Street, city officials on Tuesday pointed fingers at each other.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s administration released a timeline indicating that Councilman Doug Shields was part of “numerous conversations” about the strip club with city lawyers but did not schedule a public hearing until it was too late. Mr. Shields called part of the timeline “a flat-out lie,” and said one of the lawyers involved, Assistant City Solicitor Lawrence Baumiller, “would’ve been fired” had he made similar mistakes at a private firm.
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“If we’re going to have a lifetime sentence of living with a strip club at the gateway of our community, it would be best to know if it was because it was legal, and not the result of an oversight,” said West Side United Community Development Corp. President Marciana Rossi.
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