City Council members said they hope to develop new regulations for adult businesses after they ask voters for their opinion on the issue in November.
In the November general election, the city is asking six questions, three of which ask for North Las Vegas voters’ opinions on adult businesses like cabarets or strip clubs, adult movie theaters and arcades, and adult bookstores, the Review-Journal reported.
Voters will be asked in advisory questions whether they’re in favor of allowing those types of businesses in the city.
Two other advisory questions deal with the location of pawnshops and check cashing and loan businesses.
Another question asks residents to decide if they support switching to single-district representation in North Las Vegas, where voters elect their council representatives and only the mayor is elected by a citywide vote. The question was mandated to be on the ballot by the state Legislature.
The other five questions also are advisory only, but their answers could help shape the city’s future development. They could be used to support making it more difficult to set up new adult-oriented, payday loan and pawn businesses in North Las Vegas.
The city says there are currently no adult movie theaters, bookstores or arcades in North Las Vegas though city ordinances don’t bar them from operating.
The vote, however, would have no effect on the adult businesses already in the city which are permitted to operate until 2019 under current.
Adam Gentile, who recently acquired of all three of North Las Vegas strip clubs, hopes the city will allow the clubs to operate after the zoning law expires.
Gentile said his Palomino club is the only area strip club that both sells alcohol and features nude dancers. By law, other clubs that serve alcohol are only allowed to have topless dancers.
