I'd rather have the clubs than casinos, if I had to pick and chose. I know someone who gambled away a high 6 figure inheritance and now she has kids in financial trouble, who she'd like to help, and can't do a damn thing.
No offense to your friends and their problems, but to me, that's like saying they shouldn't open bars because there could be some prone to alcoholism.
You're right, of course. Most people who gamble don't have a problem like she did. I'm just saying that if I had a choice, I'd pick the clubs over casinos.
This is a consequence of no zoning. Since anything can locate anywhere you've got a mishmash of uses many of which aren't compatible. Its going to be hard to locate a school away from a strip club when either can and have located anywere.
Surely they can't force ALL those clubs to close, can they? I would have thought that some of these places could afford some powerful friends.
also thought of something else, we won't be getting anymore major sports events.....seriously think about it, let's say we get the Super Bowl again....what kind of tourism do we have here, i think alot of ppl came here to party downtown and ETC.....
Again, I can't agree too strongly about the need for zoning, although in a lot of ways it's too late. The neighborhood I grew up in, in Southeast Houston, was ruined because there was no zoning. Just ruined. I'm still bummed about it when I check it out, even though it's been decades (about 40 years) since I lived there.
i'm not saying i don't want casinos. as a matter of fact, i'd probably vote for it. i'd just rather not see my friends' lives ruined. i have an alchoholic uncle. do i want alchohol banned? hell no.
I wonder how this is going to play out with a place like Treasures that pays about 70,000 a month just to liquor taxes. It's always number 1 in houston as far as liquor sales and all that tax money goes to the state. This is just one location making that type of money and a few of them are really high. So I guess the city and state don't care about taking that big of a hit as far as income goes.
In some ways it is too late since Houston is already a very developed metropolis and putting in zoning now would affect a lot of existing land uses but for the sake of future development it should be done. A new zoning code could have tons of grandfather clauses in it and gradually phase out existing uses that don't comply. This might take years but at least then future development would be steared into a more rational pattern than what Houston has now.
i love the pattern houston has now. i visit dallas with its zoning...and i remember why i love living in houston. proximity to things. quirky neighborhoods. houston just sorta happened. i like that.
wonder how many of them will head to the suburbs? people that are used to making the kind of money the big ones make arent just gonna go into another line of work. The club owners would just move out of the city limits. I noticed the Hi-10 cabaret is on the list (is it even still open?) , but just a mile east is a place that used to be called Royal Palace(?)(a big purple monstrosity now, not sure if its still open either)...I didnt see it on the list, is that because it is technically in galena park/northshore? anyway, point is....it isnt that far out of the Houston city limits, adn would still be easily gotten to by people who frequent such places...woudnt it be easy for places like Mens Club or Colorado to relocate.
This is the biggest bunch bs there is some of these places have ben there before homes and schools were built in these areas
The state has nothing to do with this. I would venture to guess that the sales taxes collected at SOBs are a fraction of a fraction of 1% of the total sales tax receipts in the city. I think it's ridiculous, btw, but the fiduciary argument doesn't seem to be a good one.
"fiduciary"? WTF was I typing? Try "financial". This is why you shouldn't do estate planning & talk about strip clubs at the same time. Get's you all discombobulated.
No smoking, no t*tties, what's next? I haven't been to a strip club in nearly two years and doubt I will ever go again. Definitely won't ever spend my own money there.
Way to ruin my ******g Friday! What a LOAD of hsit! Tear down the clubs, outlaw smoking IN BARS, but build a damn church on every available lot possible. You gotta love it.
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