Against “Skin” - strip club 

3388 S. Robertson Blvd.  LA CA 90034  (310) 838-SKIN (7546)  Hours: Sun.-Wed., 11am to 2am; Thur., Fri., Sat., 11am to 4am

Below is a summary and update on the strip club.  It is organized by topic.  

Keep in mind that the information below is compiled from several sources which we believe to be reliable.  We can not warrant the information as fit for use.  Use the information at your own risk. 

A strip club called Skin’s Gentlemens’ Lounge has opened at - 3388 S. Robertson; cross street Venice Blvd., where Culver City Meat Co. used to be, across from the #10fwy east on-ramp and Earl Schieb car painting shop.   This location is within LAPD Pacific Division, Basic Car 14A27, covered by the Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch, and South Robertson Neighborhood Council.  Regent Square Neighborhood Assn. starts behind the strip club as does LAPD West LA Division.   The strip club is 2 doors from Culver City.  

Let us emphasize again, the opposition to the strip club is not about consenting adults dancing nude.  The opposition is about a criminal history of other strip clubs the same strip club owner owns, and nuisance issues.   These issues will be discussed below. 

Some people may think they live too far from Robertson and Venice Blvds. for this to matter to them.  If you live, work or own property in LAPD Basic Car 14A27, which covers #10fwy, to #405fwy, Venice Blvd., to Washington Blvd., to Robertson Blvd., there is only one police car.  This means if you call the police, they may be busy at the strip club and unable to come help you if you have a low priority call.  If our one police car makes an arrest they have to go back to the station for 4hrs.to process the arrest.  Even if you think you live far away, your property values are impacted by all crime in the crime statistics for our Basic Car, 14A27. 

Degree of Nudity and Alcohol.

Skin, as we are told, is a full nudity strip club, with lap dancing.  Full nudity clubs are not permitted to serve alcohol.  LAPD has told us at our neighborhood watch meeting that strip clubs that serve alcohol are harder to police; intoxication leads to criminal violations, i.e. fights, publicly drunk and disorderly.  

 Sorbana Mexico, a restaurant a few doors away from the strip club, has just obtained a liquor license.  There already is a liquor store at Venice and National, a block away.  Liquor is sold at Albertsons’ supermarket and CVS drug store a block away in the other direction.  

 LAPD tells us it is common in clubs which do not serve liquor – customers to drink outside the club, on the sidewalk, in the parking lot, in cars, in the neighborhood.  

Zoning, Interiors, Domaintrix Studio.

An objection to the strip club was raised on the zoning regulation that does not permit strip clubs within 500ft. of residences.  Since the strip club is in an industrial (M) zone, this rule we are told does not apply. 

 Zoning laws do not permit sex businesses within 1000ft. of one another.   The neighbors have (re)discovered a dominatrix studio called the Dominion at 8875 Venice Blvd.; cross street Curts, across from Helms Bakery, 2 blocks E. of Robertson, http://www.dominionsm.com/2257.html.  The law does not permit 2 sex businesses within 1000ft from each other.  They are 984ft. apart.  The Dominion is not licensed as a sex business.   It claims to be and is licensed as a “massage parlor.”  Visit their website and decide for yourself if this appears to be a “massage parlor” or a dominatrix studio

http://www.dominionsm.com/2257.html.  Be sure to click on Mistress Danielle page and notice the stretching rack and human head cage.  Note, this website was cleaned up and made more searchable in recent weeks.  Neighbors reports seeing female Dominion employees in dominatrix gear getting in and out of their cars parked in the neighborhood.  A neighbor who was given a tour of this facility was told it is a dominatrix studio.  Decide for yourself if this is a sex business.  Please note the law favors sex businesses.

 The Dominion is on Venice Blvd.  Regent Sq. Neighborhood Assn. starts with the houses just behind The Dominion.  Regent Sq. asked us and the other neighborhood organizations to endorse their position to support a zoning permit for The Dominion.  This was an effort to deny the strip club a permit.  The adjacent business to the strip club, and leaders, and a minister from the surround neighborhoods agreed (LA Times, Oct. 12, 2007:B2).  Regent Sq. says the business has been there for about 30 years or more and not caused any trouble for the neighborhood.  This is a discrete business with no signage and a small number of people coming and going.  Further along these lines, LAPD was unaware of the existence of the dominatrix studio – apparently no trouble as come from there.  After conferring with the leaders of the LA neighborhoods (we were unable to reach Culver City about these developments), the reluctant consensus was to follow Regent Square’s lead to support the Dominion as a means of blocking the strip club.   Having no sex business in the area was not a realistic option.  We advised Regent Sq. to ask for usage restrictions as a means to protect their neighborhood.  Strip clubs on the other hand are high volume and very conspicuous business; lots of traffic, people and cars parking. 

 There was a hearing on the Dominion’s before the zoning administrators (ZA) office, on Sept. 17, 2007, Mon., case no. DIR 2007-2934 (BSA).  The Dominion argued it was not a sex business as defined by the LA municipal code; saying people inside its business are clothed.  The ZA ordered the Dominion and the LA Dept. of Building and Safety to work together before the next hearing.   The strip club has been ordered by the LA Dept. of Building and Safety to cease work pending the outcome of an investigation that there is another sex business within a 1000ft.  Later Building and Safety concluded The Dominion is a sex business. 

 The strip club merely knocked out a wall on a building behind the main strip club to come into compliance with the 1000ft. regulation.  The strip club has earned praise by a strip club news website for the way it removed a wall so that it could be in compliance with the 1000ft rule.  

http://www.stripclubcentral.com/news/new-la-club-finds-creative-way-around-restrictions

LAPD says the strip club currently does not have a stripper pole; though they are easy to install.  There are rooms on the side of the club but as they are now, which may change, they do not have curtains or doors.  (Generally, private rooms are a concern for they often hide lewd conduct, prostitution and drug sales/use). 

Ownership.

The strip club is co-owned by Woo Suk “Stanley” Yang,  who also owns the Silver Reign, at Bundy and Olympic, across from Staples and another Silver Reign in North Hollywood (LA Times, Oct. 12, 2007:B2).   We have learned Mr. Stanley Yang’s business partners in Star Planet, Inc., the company which owns the strip clubs are David Allan Chew and Joe Diaz. 

Mr. Yang is represented by the highly victorious first-amendment and criminal defense attorney Roger Jon Diamond, who specializes in making free speech arguments for the porn industry.   Mr. Diamond, who says he attended Hamilton High School said “I’m sure the Hamilton Yankees, being in support of the Constitution, will think very highly of this business” (LA Times, Oct. 12, 2007:B2).    In fact there was widespread outrage at the Hamilton High School Booster Club (PTA) over the strip club opening around the corner from their school; another fact the LA Times ignored when quoting Mr. Diamond. 

 People, especially lawyers, familiar with Mr. Diamond say he has stock arguments he typically uses to defend porn businesses, an example of which can be found on this link to a radio interview he did in 2003 when the LA City Council was considering a bill by our then Councilperson Cindy Miscowski, to require that strippers stay a minimum of 6ft. away from customers.   Scroll down till June 11, http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/listings/2003/06/airtalk_20030609.shtml

Culver City Meat Co., the Skin Club’s landlord is owned by Levy Litmobich (possibly spelled Levi Litmanovich) who owns Golden West Trading Inc., dba, Culver City Meat Co. has relocated to Vernon (LA Times, Oct. 12, 2007:B2). 

Strip Club Operations.

Skin charges a cover charge of $5 during the day and $10 at night. 

 LAPD Vice Detective Luis Chavez told our Dec. 2008 Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch meeting that in general strippers who just dancing earn $400 to $600 per night.  If she engages in prostitution, she will earn $4,000 to $6,000 a night.  He says about 80% of the strippers are prostitutes.  The strip clubs which do not sell alcohol, sell only water and soda pop.  Instead of U.S. legal currency (greenbacks), Det. Chavez says strip clubs use Las Vegas style poker chips.  Customers may purchase $2,000 to $5,000 in poker chips.  He says water and soda are not that expensive; and the chips are to pay for prostitution. 

 Here is Skin’s help wanted ad on Craigslist http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/tfr/498141825.html

Dancers Wanted for 5 Star Gentlemen's Club!

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Date: 2007-12-03, 11:31PM PST

Skin Gentlemen's Lounge, the only 5 Star Gentlemen's Club in Los Angeles is opening soon in West Los Angeles. We are now hiring dancers & servers. We are only looking for the top entertainers & servers in the LA area. Skin Gentlemen's Lounge will be the top premier club in Los Angeles!

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Here is Skin’s listing on MySpace.com for

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=276511861

Crime.

LAPD has told in every month at our neighborhood watch meetings since this summer  that other strip clubs take up police resources for lewd acts in public (outside the strip clubs), prostitution and drug dealing (inside the strip clubs).  

We are also informed that strip clubs on the Westside make about $50,000/daily, $18.25M/year.  

 eputy LA City Atty Susan Strick, Neighborhood Prosecutor assigned West LA LAPD, the neighborhood next to us, said on Oct. 29, 2007 in a neighborhood meeting that at another strip club Mr. Stanley Yang co-owns, 7 of his strippers was arrested for prostitution during the summer of 2007.  LAPD discovered used condoms and sperm in the strip club with drugs and drug pipes.  The Yang strip club in question is the Silver Reign in West LA, Olympic & Bundy, across from Staples. 

 At our Dec. 2007 meeting, LAPD Det. Luis Chavez spoke.  He works in the citywide Vice Division and has been investigating Mr. Yang for 6 years.  He did not comment on the pending Jan. 2008 trials of the 6 strippers who were arrested for prostitution at Mr. Yang’s West LA Silver Reign Club; 1 was found not guilty.  He will testify at the Jan. trials. 

 Det. Chavez did speak in general terms about why it is difficult to get a prostitution conviction.  He says the strippers are intimidated to testify about prostitution they may have been involved in or witnessed in strip clubs for they fear for their lives, even if they are offered the witness protection program.  He said the strip clubs are very dimly lit.  The prostitution typically occurs, according to Det. Chavez, in the semi-private rooms which have half-walls, curtains and a rope where the door would be.  The privacy of the stripper engaging in a sex act for pay with a customer is ensured by these barriers, dim lights and by bouncers.  Anyone getting close enough to see the sex act will be intercepted by bouncers. 

 Mr. Yang also co-owns the Silver Reign strip club in North Hollywood.  LAPD informs us that complaints about the North Hollywood strip club have not yet led to any arrests. 

Parking.

We are concerned about the lack of sufficient parking for the strip club.  Even if they have a parking lot, there are customers and employees who will want to avoid paying and park in the neighborhood.  Some customers do not want to be seen in such a place and will park in the neighborhood. 

Signage.

We are concerned about signage devaluing our properties and causing accidents. 

 The name of the strip club is Skin Gentleman’s Lounge.  The strip club has told LAPD before Thanksgiving, they will erect a double neon sign which will say, “Skin: Gentleman’s Club.”  The sign will be visible from the front and back of the bldg.; from Robertson and Ellis.  They stated they will not have other signs, posters or billboards.  Of course these are only verbal statements and not restrictions in an enforceable conditional use permit.   However, when the opened on Dec. 11, 2007, they did not have a neon sign but 2 signs at the corner of their building. 

Hours.

The hours Skin is open are: Sun.-Wed., 11am to 2am; Thur., Fri., Sat., 11am to 4am.  The late hours are of particular concern to Skin’s immediate neighbors who might be awoken, or kept up by noise from the club or customers’ comings and goings. 

Proximity to Hamilton High School and Expo Line.

Hamilton High School is 3 blocks away from the strip club.  Students will be walking past the strip club to get to and from the bus on Venice Blvd.   Since alcohol will not be served, students who are 18 years old may enter the club, and even work there.   Typically strip clubs serve free buffets.  Free food may be an enticement for broke 18 year olds.  While these are of concern to parents, Hamilton High School’s distance is not close enough to legally matter. 

As several people have noted, the location and timing may be related to the Expo line station which will be very close by, just inside Culver City.  Strip club customers and employees likely come and go via the train.  This means we as commuters using the train will have to deal with these people and what they bring into our neighborhood. 

Hearings and Permits: A Chance to Express Opposition.

LA Dept. of Building and Safety has issued a permit.  

Police Permit Review Panel, part of the LA Police Commission has received strong opposition to the strip club, about 100 signatures.  Our coalition of surrounding neighborhoods and Culver City friends have prevented an automatic granting to the permit, and gotten a public hearing. 

We encourage the lawful expression of opposition.  Vandalism against the door of the strip club was committed.  This is an illegal act which we encourage any neighbors who have information about the suspect(s) report them to LAPD. 

A  hearing on Skin’s permit will be scheduled before a Hearing Examiner; not the Police Commissioners themselves.  The hearing will be at Hamilton High School’s Auditorium at 7pm on Jan. 28, 2008, Mon.  This is an opportunity to express opposition.  After the Hearing Examiner hears the case, s/he will have 30 days to make a decision.  They typically make it in about 2 weeks.  

Hearing Officer will make recommendation to the Police Permit Review Panel, which is made up of 7 Commissioners; separate from the Police Commissioners.  The Panel has a public meeting in which the community can come make public comments.  The Board meets at 2:30pm, the second and fourth Wed. of each month at Parker Center.   The Board makes the final decision; further review would entail a judicial review by the Superior Court, only if the Board did not follow proper procedure.  Unlike what some people think, we need to prepare for at least two meetings; and likely more. 

 Our opposition prevented an automatic granting of a permit to operate the strip club.  We must continue to restrict the operation of the strip club. 

There are examples of letters of opposition on www.NoRobertsonStripClub.com.  Lawn signs and flyers are available.  Please modify the letter as necessary.  Do use the issues above we have summarized.   Some of the example letters may not be appropriate for your situation.  Note that our neighborhood is Palms-Westside Village.  We are not in South Robertson.  For our Culver City friends please emphasize that Culver City is across the street from the strip club.  

 Check back to the Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch for further information, www.freewebs.com.14A27

Summary of Preliminary Hearing, Jan. 28, 2008.

Jan. 28, 2008 there was hearing at Hamilton High School before a Hearing Examiner from the LA Police Permit Review Board.  In this hearing, Skin strip club’s lawyer Roger Jon Diamond, Esq. made opening remarks.  There were about 52 public comments.  Hami’s Principal told me before the hearing started he thought there were about 575 people there.  More came.  It is safe to say over 600 people came. 

The Hearing Examiner stated he has received over 600 letters of protest.  He has also received 800-900 signatures on petitions against the strip club.  Since www.NoRobertsonStripClub.com campaign was collecting signatures at the hearing, several hundred more signatures were added.   Many of the people who came to the hearing had not come to any of our previous events.  There was a show of hands of how many people in the audience were against the strip club, nearly everyone raised their hand.  There was no opposition. 

All except the first comment, from the owner of Earl Schieb, were against the strip club.  Earl Schieb is an auto painting and body shop across the street from the Skin strip club.  We were informed by the www.NoRobertsonStripClub.com campaign that Earl Schieb is renting their parking lot to the strip club.  On the Speaker Card, a card one is required to fill out in order to speak, this person may not have disclose that they have a financial interest in what they are speaking about.  Usually the people running the hearing will say that the speaker has a financial interest or is a lawyer or registered lobbyist.  Without that parking lot, the strip club could not operate.  I for one will not do business with Earl Schieb and intend to inform them of this. 

Mr. Diamond’s opening comment including a strip tease, down to his Hamilton High School football jersey.  Mr. Diamond is a Hami alum.  Of course the TV news showed the strip tease. 

Theatrics aside, Mr. Diamond spoke of learning civics and about the Constitution at Hami.  From there he transitioned that neighbors not wanting the strip club is akin of neighbors not wanting black students.  This drew angry comments.  When I spoke later, I declared as the former LA City Human Relations Commissioner, that what was at work here is not racism, but a concern for public safety. 

A main theme was operating hours.  Currently under their temporary permit, Skin is opened, Sun.-Wed., 11am to 2am; Thur., Fri., Sat., 11am to 4am.  Skin is opened more hours than any other strip club in LA.  LAPD Vice Division Det. Chavez told us that prostitution is more likely to occur in strip clubs after 1am. 

My comment was one of the last before the break.  What the Steering Committee wanted to say had been said by this point.  I said we prefer the Skin strip club not be granted permit, for reasons already discussed by earlier speakers.  However, if it were to be granted a permit, we endorse the restrictions spoken of earlier.  The conditions of use the Steering Committee has put on are on www.NoRobertsonStripClub.com.  I raised the objection of  the owners of Skin strip club are the same owners of the Silver Reign strip clubs in West LA (across from Staples at Bundy and Olympic) and in North Hollywood.  This past summer, inside the West LA Silver Reign, 7 strippers were arrest for engaging in prostitution inside the club.  (A previous comment mentioned that a black light was shown on the surfaces of the club and they were covered with semen).  I went on the say that we were not impressed with the changing of ownership on paper.  And that the laws which permitted the change of ownership on paper gave the same owners a fresh start were biased toward the pornographers and stacked against the community.  I also protested that the laws regarding strip clubs automatically granted a temporary operating permit without notification of the neighbors let alone public hearing were similarly biased against the neighbors.  Had we not discovered a strip club was coming into the neighborhood they could have been granted permanent operating permit without notification let alone public hearing.  The rest of my 2 minutes was spent in rebuttal to Mr. Diamond.  As mentioned I rebutted the charge of racism.  Mr. Diamond earlier asserted in the one month the club has operated there has been an absence of traffic, parking and crime problems.  I pointed out the fact that the club has poor business; that once business picks up the people and cars that will come will create the problems we are concerned about. 

After my comment, I was informed by LAPD during the break that in mid-Jan. 2008, they arrested another stripper from prostitution inside the West LA Silver Reign. 

No surprise of the evening was LA Unified School District (LAUSD) sent one of their lawyers to read a letter of opposition against the strip club.  They said while the strip club is not within 500ft. of the school, the spirit of the law is violated.  The law does not account for the route students must walk to get to the Venice Blvd. bus stop, passing in front of the strip club.  LAUSD also pointed out the 18 year old Hamilton High School students may not only patronize the club, they may work their too.

The last public comment was from Hami’s Principal, Gary Garcia.   He said with a strip club 2 blocks away, it is hard to prevent his students from going there.  He predicts that going to the Skin strip club will be a right of passage for students. 

Attorney Diamond had the final comment.  Most of the people walked out when he apparently offended them.  Mr. Diamond sought a permit without restrictions.  Mr. Diamond said students can not afford to get into the strip club.  Steven Coker, President of Regent Square Neighborhood (which is behind the strip club) pull out two ads from free newspapers which had coupons from the Skin strip club for free admissions. 

As I have said all the way along, Monday night’s hearing is only preliminary.  The more important hearing will occur sometime, probably in mid-to-late March, when the Police Permit Review Board meets.  The Board has final say.  This is where we must prevail.  Please come to the hearing which will be at Parker Center, police headquarters in downtown LA during the work day. 

We would like to thank KCBS-TV News reporter Glen Walker for getting it right.  He correctly identified that the strip club is in Palms.  ….Of course this is not a distinction our neighborhood aspires to. 

Background details are posted to our website – www.freewebs.com/14a27  

Summary of Hearing Examiner's Findings, Mar, 2008.

Hearing Examiner has recommended to the LA Police Permit Review Board deny permit to the Skin strip club.  He does go on a say, if the Board does grant permit it do so only with heavy restrictions - most of the ones we recommended.  

Summary of Main Hearing - LA Police Permit Review Board, Apr. 30, 2008.

On Wed., April 30, 2008, 45 neighbors from South Robertson and our neighborhood went to the LA Police Permit Review Board hearing on the strip club at Parker Center.
 
The Skin strip club's lawyer, Roger Jon Diamond, essential told the Board if they do not grant him a permit without conditions, he will sue.
 
Councilmen Herb Wesson and Jack Weiss addressed the Board urging them to deny the strip club a permit. 
 
Police Commission Investigations Division said the applicant met all conditions to be granted a permit. They said the owner, the elder Mr. Yang had no background problems that would cause denial of a permit.  Then they proceeded to take apart the Hearing Examiner's favorable (to us) recommendations as not being based in law. 
 
Recall, in the Jan. 2008 hearing and other times, we have objected that the law is more favorable to strip clubs than neighborhoods. All the strip club has to do is change ownership on paper and it will be granted a clean slate.
 
Public comments were only 1 min. long. I made the first public comment. I repeated to the Board what Mr. Diamond told me, the younger Mr. (Stanley) Yang, changed ownership of the club to his elderly non-English speaking father. My comment was cut off as this took a minute. 
 
Another public comment said the elder Mr. Yang was sued for lewd conduct at the Pink Pleasures strip club in Pasadena which the elder allegedly Yang owns. That club was shut down. This should be looked into and if it checks out should be added to the arguments on our side.
 
I was handed a complaint by a lawyer who lives near the strip club. This document was of a lawsuit the LA City Atty filed against Star Planet, which Stanley Yang owns; LA Superior Court, case SC0960884, filed Nov. 19, 2007. LA City Atty calls Silver Reign, the strip club in West LA at Bundy and Olympic, across from Staples, "a brothel disguised as an exotic dance club." LA City Atty seeks to shut down Silver Reign - West LA. 
 
The Board made no decision this day. The vote is suppose to occur next Wed., May 7, date subject to confirmation. The next hearing will also be at Parker Center, time to be arranged.  

Summary of Main Hearing - LA Police Permit Review Board, Nov. 19, 2008.

The Police Permit Review Panel, part of the LA Police Commission has, subpoenaed Mr. Yang, senior to determine who the real owner of Skin is.  Skin’s Atty Jon Roger Diamond called the Board a Kangaroo Court and threatened to sue the Board and City unless Skin was granted a permanent operating permit without restriction.   Mr. Diamond called the neighbors who testified against Skin “liars.”  The Board granted Skin is permanent operating permit without restriction on Nov. 19, 2008.  After the permit was granted Stanley Yang, the son, who co-owns Silver Reign strip club in West LA, which has had several of its strippers arrested in its club for prostitution, and who claimed not to own Skin, approached South Robertson Neighborhood Council for a meeting.  Stanley Yang had transferred ownership after the first prostitution arrests to his elderly father who does not speak English. 

Background Information.

For background information, there are two references, the LA City Municipal code is one:  Go to AmLegal.com, click Library, Calif., LA, Municipal code, Section 12.70 Secondly, do a web search for a publication which is called Protecting Communities from Sexually Oriented Businesses. 

Media Coverage.

The LA Times (Oct. 12, 2007:B2) wrote an article, click here for .pdf file:  http://tinyurl.com/2p2vnu    Notice the LA Times has incorrectly identified the neighborhood the strip club is in as Regent Sq.  Regent Sq. actually starts behind the strip club.  Regent Sq. is in LAPD West LA Division and a neighborhood in South Robertson Neighborhood Council.  The strip club is in our neighborhood, Palms-Westside Village and patrolled by our LAPD Pacific Division Basic Car 14A27 and covered by the Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch.  The LA Times reporter actually lives in South Robertson, which is part of LAPD West LA Division.  She only interviewed her neighbors for her story.  This same reporter disregarded our neighborhood’s opposition to Santa Monica sponsoring a homeless facility in our neighborhood; which Santa Monica would have shipped Santa Monica homeless people to our neighborhood.     

At the Nov. 7, 2007 meeting of the Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch, Stephen Cheung, Mayor Villaragosia’s Westside Director spoke.  KCBS-TV news aired a story later that night, see the news clip -  

www.NoRobertsonStripClub.com   The story had errors; that our neighborhood watch meeting was held in South Robertson, and that there would be only one hearing before the Police Permit Review Panel.  Our neighborhood watch meets in Palms.  The block the strip club is on is represented both by South Robertson Neighborhood Council and Palms-Westside Village Neighborhood Watch.   There will be at least two meetings; one before the hearing examiner who will make recommendation to the Police Permit Review Panel.  The Panel’s public meeting will be another chance the community can express its opposition.

At a Dec. 11, 2007, Town Hall meeting on the strip club, Fox TV News 11 came.  Click the link for the story: http://www.norobertsonstripclub.com/2007/12/11/fox-news-coverage-december-11-2007/

Amongst those present were Roger Jon Diamond, representing the strip club, Neighborhood Prosecutor Deputy LA City Atty Susan Strick, the attorney for the NoRobertsonStripClub campaign, and aides to Councilpersons Herb Wesson and Jack Weiss.