The former Baby Dolls site will get a new name, and dancers will wear bikinis, its owner says. Clearwater officials say that fits the ordinance. City officials thought the strippers were finally gone from the gateway to the city when Baby Dolls, an erotic dance club on the eastern edge of Clearwater, closed late last year.
We have received plans for a nightclub on the site but NOT adult entertainment. Although revised city ordinances are supposed to limit erotic businesses to U. The city's ordinances, which were revised last year, are explicit: A woman is prohibited from showing her breasts below the areola, and she cannot display the cleft in her buttocks.
More modest bikinis are okay anywhere. The city's codes also state that adult entertainment stores and clubs, once closed, are forever closed unless they can reopen in the designated areas along U. But we're going to be totally legal from the get-go. Caruso has made a career managing and working as a disc jockey at erotic clubs in the Tampa Bay area.
He will call his new place, a sports bar with dancing girls, Cheerleaders. Baby Dolls, the predecessor club, did not follow the rules, city police and attorneys have alleged. City attorneys fought to get an injunction from to to force the Baby Dolls club and one other establishment to keep their erotic dancers from doing "lewd and lascivious" lap dances or stripping topless against city codes, said Rob Surette, an assistant city attorney.
Police periodically arrested and cited dancers who broke the rules. Before its demise, Baby Dolls had lost its ability to sell beer, Caruso said, and was serving non-alcoholic brews. Caruso said he is working to get the beer and wine license back. Other hurdles to clear are the city's basic zoning requirements.
