Thursday, February 17, 2000
Strip club site taken
BY CINDY SCHROEDER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — Efforts to locate a strip club on prime property appear to be at an end.
Owners of Crab 'n' Creations restaurant have an option to buy a building at Fifth and Johnson streets that Bistro Primo Inc. had been looking at for a strip club. The restaurant opened in the building, the former Dominique's nightclub, less than a month ago.
The restaurant owners' plans for the property follow last year's dismissal of Bistro Primo's lawsuit against the city, after attorneys for both sides agreed to it.
City Manager Greg Jarvis said he did not know of any attempts by Bistro Primo to get a permit for another location in the city.
In 1998, the Covington Board of Adjustments rejected Bistro Primo's application for a city permit that would have allowed the firm to offer seminude dancing at the former Dominique's nightclub.
Bistro Primo's application for a strip club would have been the first in seven years in Covington and Newport, Northern Kentucky cities that once had many such clubs.
Attorneys for Bistro Primo argued seminude dancing would not constitute a significant change in the use of the nightclub. They said the club would be an upscale attraction for business people that would blend in with proposed riverfront development.
But the Covington Board of Adjustments disagreed, saying plans for seminudity were significant, and constituted a change in use.
The Dayton, Ohio, company disagreed, and filed suit challenging the constitutionality of Covington's zoning code.
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