A community hub to oppose the proposed strip club at 3388 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles
The LAPD has received over 650 letters and counting. Keep up the pressure until decisions are made. Remind them how much we care.
Download a sample letter.
Frankly, you could hardly pick a worse location for a strip club. Learn about the safety issues, proximity to schools, and neighborhood impact.
Read why we oppose the club.
The final permit decision will happen downtown at Parker Center. There will be public comment. Let us know if you would like to be there.
Sign up to be notified of the hearing date.
Think of it as an investment in your property values. Our fight against the proposed strip club is in full swing, and we need your help.
Donate today.
November 16th, 2007 — Take Action Now!, Your Quality of Life, Your Rights, Your Safety
We have designed 18″x24″ lawn signs to help get the word out about the strip club. They are weatherproof, and come with a wire frame so they can easily be displayed in front of your house.
Update: The signs are available now—look for them throughout the neighborhood. We will be giving a sign to all who make a donation to the cause. Please note in the donation comments field if you’d like a sign.
November 15th, 2007 — Crime, Drugs, Prostitution, Take Action Now!, Your Children, Your over-worked police dept.
This Los Angeles Police Department Report summarizes some of the crimes that originate in strip clubs. Covering an 18-month period to determine the types of law enforcement problems which arise from businesses that offer live adult entertainment, most of the incidents in this particular report involve prostitution, violent conduct, lewd conduct and narcotics violations.
WARNING: This report is xxx-rated and contains sexually-explicit language and may be extremely offensive to the reader.
For adults only. Download the LAPD Report on Strip Clubs.
November 10th, 2007 — Take Action Now!, Your Business, Your Home
Here’s an easy way to show your opposition to the proposed strip club: download either a Color or Black and White sign, print it on your home printer, and tape it inside your window.
(And while you’re at it, get your neighbor to do it, too.)
November 8th, 2007 — Press/Media, Your Safety
CBS-TV 2 reporter Mary Beth McDade recently reported on the community’s efforts to stop the proposed South Robertson strip club. WATCH the clip here or listen to the report.
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November 8th, 2007 — Your Safety
Many of the local neighborhood organizations have already pledged their support. Visit Soro.org for additional information on how you can make a difference.
Take the time now to contact your neighborhood organization and urge them to support our effort. A unified front is our strongest defense.
November 6th, 2007 — Crime, Drugs, Prostitution, Take Action Now!, Your Safety
Join us in opposing the proposed all nude strip club at 3388 South Robertson Boulevard, L.A. 90034.
Get the Fact Sheet, outlining our key reasons to oppose the strip club.
November 6th, 2007 — Crime, Drugs, Take Action Now!, Your Children, Your Quality of Life, Your Rights
Parents and concerned citizens, a reminder to please WRITE to the Police Permit Review Panel Commissioners today! We’ve created three sample letters to get you started. Feel free to edit and personalize it to fit your situation.
November 6th, 2007 — Take Action Now!, Your Business, Your Children, Your Faith, Your Home, Your Quality of Life, Your over-worked police dept.
The clock is ticking, and we need you to donate to our legal defense fund and to get involved today.
Use either the donation form at upper right of this page, or go here for instructions if you’d prefer to mail a check.
We also need volunteers to help organize the neighborhood response. If you are interested in helping out, please download the sign up form and fax to the number on the sheet.
Thanks!
November 5th, 2007 — Photos
Photo by Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times
From the LA Times: A strip club is proposed in this building formerly occupied by Culver City Meat Co. The operator has decided to lop seven feet off the building to meet a requirement that adult businesses be at least 1,000 feet apart. It is 993 feet from a bondage parlor.
This photo shows the location of the nude dance strip club. Situated on a one-way portion of Robertson Blvd., it is in the heart of what is already a very congested and confusing intersection where Exposition/Venice and Robertson Blvds intersect.
The strip club is located at the base of the 10 E off ramp, near the 10 W on ramp, and not far from Hamilton High School.
It is located at the “gateway” to Culver City, South Robertson, Beverlywood, Cheviot Hills, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. ALL CARS exiting the 10 E freeway to get to these areas will drive right past the strip club.
Comment: Homeowners, merchants, LAPD and city officials have worked hard for years to improve the quality of life and image of their neighborhoods. To allow one business to take it all away will be more than heart-breaking. It will be a grave injustice.
November 4th, 2007 — Take Action Now!
This notice is posted on behalf of the Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch.
The strip club is Capt. Hiltner’s jurisdiction. It is not in West LA LAPD jurisdiction. Capt. Hiltner makes decisions on if or how much enforcement the strip club will receive. It is important the community turn out and give Capt. Hiltner their feedback on strip club enforcement. This is a rare opportunity to see the Capt. We have not had a Capt’s visit in about 5 years. The fact he is coming now underscores the importance of the threat the strip club proposes to our public safety.
If you live, work or own property in LAPD Basic Car 14A27, which covers #10fwy, to #405fwy, Venice Blvd., to Washington Blvd., to Robertson Blvd., there is only one police car. This means if you call the police, they may be busy at the strip club and unable to come help you . Only in the most serious life threatening calls do police cars come from out of the area. If our one police car makes an arrest they have to go back to the station for 4hrs. to process the arrest. During that time our police car will not be available. When crime increases, is goes into the one set of crime statistics for our basic car. Even if you think you live far away, your property values are impacted by all crime in the crime statistics.
Strip clubs generally cause concern due to organized crime, drugs, prostitution, lewd conduct, fights and decreased property values. We are concerned about signage devaluing our properties and causing accidents. As several people have noted, the location and timing may be related to the Expo line station which will be very close by, just inside Culver City. Strip club customers and employees likely come and go via the train.
Please attend
Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch meeting
Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007
6:30 pm
At the IMAN Center Library
3376 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034
(Between Palms Blvd. and National Blvd., east side).
There will first be a crime briefing by Senior Lead Officer Ceja then the rest of the meeting will be on the strip club with Capt. Hiltner. The main topic will be the strip club which is expected to open at 3388 S. Robertson.
Note: the meeting is expected to be in the The IMAN Center’s Library; on the street side of the south bldg. Please be flexible if they ask us to move. If you can not find us there, please inquire as to where we were moved to. At 7:15pm the Palms Neighborhood Council holds its separate meeting in another room while our meeting continues.
November 3rd, 2007 — Crime, Take Action Now!
Strip club will affect two (2) police divisions
While the strip club is located in the Pacific division of the LAPD, both WLA and Pacific divisions cover a 1-mile radius of 3388 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles 90034.
Download the Pacific Division crime stats. Here are the West Los Angeles police stats.
Comment: If you live within a one mile radius of 3388 S. Robertson, you already know that police resources are strained.
Woe to Pacific area residents who have an emergency and their area car is busy on a strip club call. If you are a concerned resident and want to find out more, attend the Nov. 7th meeting to ask the Pacific Division Police Captain.
November 3rd, 2007 — Take Action Now!, Your Quality of Life, Your Rights, Your Safety
We need YOU to send a letter to the Police Commissioner ASAP!
The purpose of the letter is to ask the L.A. Police Permit Review Panel to not issue the strip club a Cafe and Show Entertainment Permit.
This is a time sensitive issue. Act today! We need the L.A. Police Permit Review Panel to get your letters and/or petitions before the upcoming public hearing. They do not accept fax. It must be mailed or hand-delivered. IF YOU SEND A LETTER, the Police Commission will mail you a hearing notification when the date has been set.
Feel free to modify the sample letter to reflect your particular concerns—and be sure to urge your neighbors to do so, too!
November 3rd, 2007 — Prostitution
Oct 30, 2007 9:51 am US/Pacific
(AP) SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.
A San Bernardino strip club has been shut down by a judge who also slapped the Flesh Club owner with a $25,000 fine for allowing sex acts in private VIP rooms.
Superior Court Judge Donald Alvarez has ordered the club closed for eight months beginning Nov. 14.
Flesh Club lawyer Roger Jon Diamond argued unsuccessfully that only a portion of the business should be shuttered because striptease dancing is a First Amendment-protected activity.
The city has battled the strip club for a decade, claiming it’s a house of prostitution.
City Attorney James Penman said he’s pleased with the judge’s decision. Source
Comment: It is our understanding Roger Jon Diamond is the Robertson Blvd. strip club legal counsel. For nearly 40 years he has successfully fought for the rights of nude dancers under the First Amendment. That is fine, if only they just danced . . .
November 3rd, 2007 — Press/Media
Despite opposition by L.A.’s Regent Square residents, it has received a temporary city business license.
By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 12, 2007
For residents of a tiny pocket of the South Robertson Boulevard area of Los Angeles known as Regent Square and for nearby business owners, the slogan of the moment appears to be: Better the X-rated business you know than the one you don’t…Full L.A. Times story (or you may download a .pdf copy here.)
Comment: On Sept. 14 L.A. Building & Safety ordered building owner Levi Litmanovich to stop all construction work and to provide a survey that the strip club is located more than 1,000 feet from any other Adult Entertainment Establishment (Sec. 12.70 C; Sec. 12.70 D. of L.A.M.C. ). It is our understanding Mr. Litmanovich, CEO of Golden West Trading and apparent operator of Culver City Meat, now intends to remove seven feet from the building to circumvent comply with the law.
