“The strippers are coming! The strippers are
coming! Quiet, wholesome city of Richardson, prepare yourself for a
full-on thong invasion! EVERYBODY PANIC. If you saw a WFAA-Channel 8
story last Saturday, you might think an army of busty,
silicone-stuffed women were already on their way to corrupt your
children and steal your husbands away into Bud Light-filled nights of
lap dances and poker games. And if you thought that, you'’d be pretty
much wrong. State law says cities have to designate areas where
sexually oriented business (hereafter, SOBs) can operate without
having to seek approval from a city council zoning committee. Them’s
the rules. But Richardson didn’t have one.”
Ed Cognoski responds:
The press sure did a hatchet job on this story, didn't they? They make Richardson sound like it's out trying to drum up SOBs, instead of it being one of the last cities to capitulate to state law requiring such zoning.
None of the news stories I've read has yet commented on this statement by Richardson's mayor: "The cities of Addison, Carrollton, Garland, Irving, McKinney and Plano have adopted similar regulations." Maybe WFAA can research where the red-light districts are in these other cities and take the attention away from Richardson. Please.
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