Residents Gather to Fight Adult Store Project

By: AVN Media Network

Posted: 12:00 AM PST Aug 28, 2006

Residents in this newly incorporated city gathered Thursday to discuss ways to stop an adult novelty store from opening.
An estimated 900 residents rallied at Chattahoochee High School to outline plans to stop the owners of the Love Shack from opening a 10,000-square-foot store here, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
Mayor-designate Mike Bodker vowed to keep the store from opening and to help develop regulations aimed at adult businesses in the new city, which was formed last month after a referendum.
John Cornetta, who owns the Love Shack chain of stores, is apparently prepared, having sued Fulton County earlier this month for denying a business license for the proposed store. Cornetta argued that the county should give him a regular business permit because his proposed store would have less than 25 percent of its merchandise would be considered adult products.But the county said he must still apply for an adult entertainment business license.
As it is, Bodker said the new Johns Creek City Council will make it a priority to pass a series of regulations aimed at adult businesses. He told the newspaper that he is working on measures that define obscenity, adult entertainment, zoning adult businesses and on a measure to ban alcohol from adult establishments.
Republican state Rep. Mark Burkhalter is also developing legislation aimed at re-establishing Georgia’s obscenity law.
During the meeting, one woman suggested locals fill up the store’s parking lot and take pictures of patrons to dissuade customers from going there.
But another man said he was leery of local government banning any type of business, suggesting that the city would then be in charge of also enforcing morality on its citizens.

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