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With more than 200 strip club workers and advocates filling a makeshift meeting room inside the Rosenwald Center?s gym Feb. 6, the New Orleans City Planning Commission (CPC) rejected parts of a plan from the New Orleans City Council to limit the number of strip clubs on Bourbon Street.

The CPC instead followed recommendations from its staff that call for a ?soft cap? of 14 clubs, rather than a harder cap limiting clubs to one per block face, as the City Council had proposed in its pitch for the CPC to study its feasibility.

The CPC?s recommendations now head to the City Council, which could adopt them into the city's Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.

Today?s hearing follows raids of eight Bourbon Street clubs last month by the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control and the New Orleans Police Department, resulting in suspended alcohol licenses and some club closures, and a loss of income for hundreds of out-of-work dancers, bartenders and others club workers and their families in what otherwise is a lucrative Carnival season.
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