Expanded Adult Cabaret proposed at West 25th. and Meyer Ave. Adjacent to the Metro-North Block Club residential district.
The Site located by the former's Monroe's Cabaret is going to the Zoning Board on Monday 03-10-08. Please join the local residents( Tremont and Clark-Metro) in opposition to this proposal going forward.
Please call Councilman Santiago's office 216-664-3706
Call Tremont West Development 216-575-0920
Call Clark-Metro Development 216-741-9500
The Development Corp's will take a position based on Community input.
A 1500 ft. Strip on West 25th is home to at least three Adult cabarets and one adult book store. Several of these establishments are non-compliant. This area is well known for Drug trafficking, Drug Boys. and Hookers. Please support the Metro North Block Club's efforts to oppose adding this back into the mix.
Most of this illegal activity ends up on the streets of So-Tremont and the Lincoln Heights neighborhoods.
Send letters to : Ms. Carol Johnson, Chairperson -- Board of Zoning Appeals -- City of Cleveland -- 601 Lakeside Ave. (Room 516) -- Cleveland, Oh. 44114
You can also call the BZA 216-664-2580 or send a fax 216-664-2631
Reprint from the City Planning web site for March 10th 2008
9:30
Ward 14
Calendar No. 08-17:
3245 West 25th Street
Joseph Santiago
40 Notices
D.T.R.G. Inc., owner, appeals to erect a 2,354 square foot building to be used for an adult cabaret on a 62’ x 137.07’ parcel located in a Semi-Industry District on the east side of West 25th Street at 3245 West 25th Street; subject to the limitations of Sections 347.07(c)(1) and 347.07(c)(5), no adult use may be established on a lot within 1,000 feet of a residence district and the proposed use is adjacent to and abutting a residential district to the east and is within 250 feet of a residence district to the west; and no adult use may be established on a lot within 1,000 feet of a church, a high school, public park, playground or recreational center or a hospital, and the proposed use is within approximately 550 feet of Lincoln West High School, within 200 feet of a church at Meyer Avenue and Scranton Road; within 500 feet of Meyer Public Pool and within 800 feet of Metro Health Medical Center; with a 5 foot wide landscape strip proposed, contrary to a 6 foot wide landscaped strip that provides fifty percent year round opacity along the parking lot where it abuts the street; and no landscaping provided where the property abuts a residential district and an 8 foot wide landscaped transition strip providing seventy-five percent year round opacity is required, as stated in Sections 352.08-352.10 of the Codified Ordinances. (Filed 1-31-08)
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Comments
Community Meeting,
Community Meeting,
The first of several Community meetings we be held on Wed. evening March 19th. 2008 at 6 PM. Regarding the re-establishment of a Adult Cabaret at 3245 West 25th. Street. This meeting is being co-hosted by Mega Church and Clark-Metro Development .
Mega Church is located at 3170 Scranton Rd.
Tremont West was requested to be involved but has not opted to represent the residential community they service. Please call TWDC and urge then to participate. 216-575-0920
The Metro North Block Club will address the issue at their Block Club meeting as a agenda item on March 25th. But several members have commited to come to the Mega Church Community meeting also.
Unity is needed, we do not need politics or imaginary CDC border lines to get in the middle of this matter.
Cleveland City officials have been contacted to participate in both meetings. Please try to hit at least one, if not both of these meetings. West 25th. needs revitalization. Strip Clubs are not the answer. The City of Cleveland should look into re-locating the Adult-Uses to a area that the secondary effects of these businesses do not cause a negative impact to the residential community.
As of this day it is my understanding that the BZA Hearing has been rescheduled for April 21st. at 10:30 AM.
Please read the re-printed story Compliments of the West Side Sun News dated 03-13-08.
Strip club draws foes
Thursday, March 13, 2008
By Ken Prendergast
West Side Sun News
Plans to reopen a burned-out strip club are meeting with neighborhood opposition. So neighbors are planning on meeting to discuss Monroe Cabaret's rebuilding plans and decide what to do next.
A public meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Mega Church, 3170 Scranton Road. Members of the church's congregation, the Metro North Block Club and Clark-Metro Community Development Corp. are hosting the meeting.
Monroe's Cabaret and an adjoining dry cleaning business caught fire Nov. 8. The burned-out building at West 25th Street and Meyer Avenue was demolished. A new, 2,300-square-foot adult cabaret is proposed to be built on the site of Monroe's; a variance request is being sought from the Board of Zoning Appeals by the cabaret's owner, DTRG Inc.
However, action by BOZA on the variance request was postponed. A new hearing date has yet to be announced.
The variance would allow the adult business to be located within 1,000 feet of a residential district the proposed strip club abuts a residential area to the east and is within 250 feet of a residence district to the west.
Also, under city building codes, no adult business may be within 1,000 feet of a church, high school, public park, playground or recreation center or hospital. Yet, the proposed business is within 550 feet of Lincoln West High School, 200 feet from Sinai Church Assembly of God, 500 feet from Meyer Public Pool and 800 feet from MetroHealth Medical Center, BOZA records show.
Metro North Block Club members said the old Monroe's Cabaret attracted prostitutes, drug dealers, broken glass bottles and other trash. However, members of the block club did not want their names published in this article out of concern for their safety.
"We're very concerned about this proposed business," said Maria Davila, executive director of the Clark-Metro Community Development Corp. "The Metro North Block Club contacted me to work on the issue and the churches in the area are completely against it."
Ward 14 Councilman Joe Santiago was out of the country this week and couldn't be reached for comment. In the past, he said the owners of Monroe's have a constitutional right to rebuild.
But, under city law, the adult club can't rebuild unless it has a permit. It also can't rebuild if the fire wasn't caused by malicious activity. Arson apparently wasn't the cause of the November fire.
According to city records, the former Monroe's had no permit to operate as an adult cabaret. In 1998, then-owner Gary Brooks was ordered to vacate the premises immediately due to health code violations. A board-up order was issued by the city in 1999. City records show Brooks applied in 2000 for a permit to operate a restaurant with "one dwelling and a cafeteria."
No approved permit for an adult cabaret at that location could be found. Reportedly, Monroe's Cabaret was owned most recently by Tom Klein. However, DTRG Inc. is the owner of record making the application for the variance. Ohio Secretary of State records show the owner of DTRG is 1600 CNB Corp. No ownership records of CNB could be located.
Davila said Santiago and city planners haven't been willing to work with Clark-Metro on addressing the proposed rebuilding of Monroe's. In the past, Santiago and city planners have claimed Clark-Metro isn't an official community development corporation.
"Just because we're not city-funded doesn't mean we don't exist," Davila said. "We still have a charter and nonprofit status, and we still service the community."
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