Strip club lobbyist Tim Killian says his clients will oppose new legislation sponsored by city council member Peter Steinbrueck that would limit strip clubs to areas 800 feet or more from schools, parks, day cares, and community centers. “There’s nothing necessitating this move,” Killian says. “They haven’t laid out any rational reasons for taking this step.”

Killian notes that there have been no applications for new strip clubs since voters rejected the four-foot rule last year, despite the fact that strip clubs are now allowed in all areas of the city where performing-arts theaters are permitted. (A map of those areas can be found here.) And he calls the new proposal too restrictive, because it would limit strip clubs to a very small area of the city that could get smaller. (Including, as this map, shows, the land currently occupied by Qwest and Safeco Fields.) “It severely restricts where these clubs can go, and in short order—two, three, five years out—this map is going to be even more restrictive, as more of these land uses, like child care centers, open up,” Killian says.

Steinbrueck, for his part, has noted that just because no one has applied for a strip-club license yet, that’s no reason to believe no one ever will. And he points out that his proposal is far less restrictive than the mayor’s, which would have restricted clubs to a small area of South Seattle near Georgetown. “This is an attempt to liberalize legislation proposed by the mayor,” Steinbrueck says. “It’s not my goal to unduly restrict strip clubs—it’s to apply a common set of principles to every neighborhood.”