It seems like a councilor is going to step front and try to save the club. Saratoga was tossed into the front line of a debate about the old norshore becoming a strip club.
A new state law made the norshore and the Saratoga illegal businesses. The fact is it does not matter what you think of these types of businesses, they are still that. The club has been around for 62 years and the state should have allowed to grandfather exciting club in but they did not do so. They did however allow for local government to override the state law if they so choice to do so. That is what councilor Stewart is going to try to do.
Here is part of the article from the Duluth news tribune,http://duluthnews.com.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT: A new city ordinance would save Duluth's oldest strip club but would not allow the NorShor to become one.
BY CHRIS HAMILTON
NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
File/News Tribune
The Club Saratoga in Canal Park.
City Councilor Russ Stewart will try to save Duluth's only strip joint, the Club Saratoga, from a new state law.
Stewart, whose 3rd District includes the 62-year-old Canal Park nightclub, will present an ordinance to the City Council on Monday that extends the city's existing standards for adult bookstores to adult entertainment such as strip clubs.
"I just think what the state did is they solved a problem that didn't exist," Stewart said. "And in doing so, they forced us to regulate something that had not been regulated."
City Attorney Bryan Brown, who wrote the ordinance for Stewart, said he believes the adult bookstore language will allow the Club Saratoga to operate as it does now.
It is important to point out, this in no way would help the norshore. It only would save the club. I am in full support of this. After we are talking about a well established business that has no right to be closed.
Again it does not matter what you or I think of this type of business. They have a right to be around.
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