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City adopts strip club law; Pink Pony won’t sue yet BY MELISSA WEINMAN
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Brookhaven City Council adopted a new ordinance that will prohibit the sale of alcohol in strip clubs and other adult businesses. The ordinance, approved Jan. 15, is similar to the one currently in place in DeKalb County, and will prohibit any contact between dancers and customers, among other regulations. The Buford Highway strip club Pink Pony is the only business in the city of Brookhaven that will be affected by the new ordinance. Currently, Pink Pony is able to sell alcohol because of a 2001 settlement agreement with DeKalb. The club pays the
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Biology professor Charlie Baube, left, creates cultures to test for bacteria in water as his son Cal, 11, watches, in Oglethorpe University’s biology lab on Jan. 12. Volunteers collected water samples from Nancy Creek at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Buckhead to test for oxygen, acidity and sediment. More photos on page 27.
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The city of Brookhaven started at lightning speed. The mayor and City Council members, elected just days before the city was scheduled to begin operations, relied heavily on the work of the Governor’s Commission on Brookhaven to make important decisions. They used the commission’s research to make decisions about everything from a location for City Hall to which firms should provide key city services -- though the council didn’t always take the commission’s advice. The five members of the commission were appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to serve as a quasi-governing board that SEE CiTY, PAGE 28
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