Pittsburgh Strip Clubs: Pittsburgh council reviews failure that allowed strip club
February 23, 2010
Pittsburgh council reviews failure that allowed strip club
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A planned West End strip club had city of Pittsburgh government debating who told what to whom, and when, today.
At issue was court-granted approval for Marquise Investments to operate an adult entertainment venue next door to the Onala Club for recovering addicts. The November approval by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Joseph James came after a year after the city planning commission rejected the club’s application, but city council did not hold its usual hearing and vote, despite the judge’s order to do so.
West Pittsburgh residents protested on the City-County Building steps Monday, demanding an explanation for the botched process that preceded the judge’s final ruling. Today, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s administration issued a timeline of events showing that, in late 2008, the planning department failed to tell council to conduct its hearing, starting a cascade of problems that came to involve then-Council President Doug Shields.
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Marquise wants to convert a former office building into a strip club.
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