LEGAL NOTICE – published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, November 20, 2012 – “The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Columbia will meet on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at 7:00 P.M., in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA, to consider the following application(s) and/or  appeal(s): Richard Fisher and AEE Encounters, Inc., d/b/a Club Good Times [NOTE: There are images with nudity at this Website.] have filed a challenge to the substantive validity of the Columbia Borough Zoning Ordinance asserting that the Zoning Ordinance provides no sites for Adult Uses, including nude dance and, in the alternative, requests a special exception to substitute a gentlemen’s club with nude dance for an existing non conforming use of a gentlemen’s club with partially clothed dancers and/or variances from requirements of the Zoning Ordinance relating to a change of a nonconforming use to an adult use, separation of an adult use from a dwelling, side and rear yard setbacks, and mini mum lot size. The challenge / application relates to 425 Union Street, Columbia, PA, which is located in the HDR High Density Residential District. If you are a person with a disability wishing to attend this meeting and require an accommodation to participate in the meeting, please contact the Columbia Borough Office at 684-2467 to discuss how the Borough may accommodate your needs. Jeffrey Helm, Zoning Officer.

According to the Columbia Borough Website, this definition describes an “ADULT LIVE ENTERTAINMENT FACILITY: A use including live entertainment involving persons (which may include waiters, waitresses, dancers, clerks, bartenders, contractors or others) displaying uncovered male or female genitals or nude or almost nude female breasts or engaging in simulated or actual specified sexual activities related to some form of monetary compensation paid to a person, company or organization operating the use or to persons involved in such activity.”

In the Borough’s “Ordinances” section, this is the link to the “Additional Requirements for Specific Uses.”

No doubt there will be a broad assortment of “rights” issues bared at this meeting