Sen. Cappiello Wants Strip Club in Danbury, Connecticut to Go - Forever

For as far back as I can remember, there has always been a small strip club on Shelter Rock Road in Danbury, Connecticut. I always thought it to be strangely out of place and quite seedy looking, as it's located in a mixed residential and industrial section of the city, and not to mention very close to The Hudson County Montessori School and Shelter Rock School. Consisting of nothing more than one small, square rectangular building located in a dingy and dark parking lot, the business was never what one would consider to be high class.

While it was called Crazy Vin's for many years, it was more recently known as the Go-Go Joint, which was shut down due to a nuisance abatement law, and also due to the fact that seven "dancers" and employees of the club were arrested for prostitution in mid-2006. One woman arrested for prostitution was in her 50's, and the others, according to sources, were suspected illegal immigrants. Former Go-Go Joint owner Vincent Mavilia promptly decided to sell the business after a local judge ordered cameras to be installed inside of the club to ensure that all activities were permissible under state and federal laws.

You would naturally think that there would be a law against having a strip club so close to schools, and there is, but there's also a catch. While a regulation already stands that bans adult entertainment facilities in close proximity to schools, parks, and churches, since the strip club and the zoning that goes along with it was there first, it gets to stay, and the new owner would be legally allowed to open an adult entertainment facility.