Save the Pink Kitty in Irvine

Irvine is often referred to as “the bubble” because its easily one of the nation’s most family-friendly cities hat prioritizes schools, parks and neighborhoods.  Low crime rates, healthy business environment and master planning have made it a textbook case in how to plan a city correctly.

For the past 40 years, buried in a business park on the city’s southwest corner not far from John Wayne Airport, is the Pink Kitty which sells a variety of “adult products” from lingerie, massage oils, personal lubricants, sex toys and novelty items.  It’s nowhere close to residential neighborhoods or schools.  Thousands of people drive by the business daily and its signage isn’t the least bit provocative.

Conversely, Target on Irvine Blvd that is across the street from a Catholic Church, next to a large apartment complex, and in walking distance of Beckman High School sells personal lubricants, vibrators, and an assortment of condoms in the healthcare products aisle.  There is lingerie for sale at Target too; not exactly Victoria’s Secret or Frederick’s of Hollywood, but its there.  CVS sells lubricants, massage oils and vibrators too, and that’s about a mile away in Northwood.

Lately, the city of Irvine has been citing this business is zoning ordinance violations is what the businesses customers say is an attempt by the city to force PinkKitty to close or relocate.

Here’s what the city says about Zoning issues around businesses like PinkKitty.  These are just definitions and I have asked the city for detail on specifics of possible zoning violations and received this response from the city’s public information office:

“This is a Sexually Oriented Business (SOB) based on the merchandise they sell and the classes they offer. It is not a ‘sudden zoning violation issue’, but rather an issue the City has been working to address with the property owner for years. This business is located in a zoning designation that does not permit Sexually Oriented Businesses.

Zoning definitions

Sexually oriented business: Any business establishment or concern which as a regular and substantial course of conduct performs as an adult bookstore, adult theater, adult motion picture arcade, adult cabaret, escort bureau, stripper, adult model studio, or adult motel/hotel, or sells or distributes adult merchandise or sexually oriented material, or any other business or concern which offers to its patrons products, merchandise, services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts, but not including those uses or activities, the regulation of which is preempted by State law. “Sexually oriented business” shall also include any establishment which, as a regular and substantial course of conduct, provides or allows performers, models, or employees to appear in any place in lingerie. For the purposes of this section, a business establishment or concern has established the provision of products, merchandise, services or entertainment characterized by an emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts as a regular and substantial course of conduct when one or more of the following conditions exist:

A. The area devoted to adult merchandise and/or sexually oriented material exceeds more than 15 percent of the total display or floorspace area open to the public.

B. The business or concern presents any type of live entertainment which is not prohibited by Title 4, Division 14, Chapter 5 of the Irvine City Code, but is nonetheless characterized by an emphasis on specified sexual activity or specified anatomical parts, at least four times in any month in any given year.

C. The regular and substantial course of conduct of the business consists of or involves the sale, trade, display or presentation of services, products, or entertainment which are characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.

Sexually oriented material: Any element of adult merchandise, or any book, periodical, magazine, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, or other visual representation, characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.

Sexually oriented merchandise: Sexually oriented implements and paraphernalia, such as, but not limited to: dildos, auto sucks, sexually oriented vibrators, edible underwear, benwa balls, inflatable orifices, anatomical balloons with orifices, simulated and battery-operated vaginas, and similar sexually oriented devices which are designed or marketed primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs or sadomasochistic activity.

Adult bookstore: Any establishment which, as a regular and substantial portion of its business, displays and/or distributes adult merchandise, books, periodicals, magazines, photographs, drawings, sculptures, motion pictures, videos, films, or other visual representations which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on a matter depicting, describing or related to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts. See “Sexually oriented business” for definition of regular and substantial portion of its business.

Adult cabaret: A nightclub, bar, restaurant or similar establishment or concern which features any type of live entertainment which is not prohibited by Title 4, Division 14, Chapter 5 of the Irvine City Code but is characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts, films, motion pictures, videocassettes, slides or other photographic reproductions which are characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.

Adult hotel/motel: A hotel or motel which, as a regular and substantial course of conduct, provides to its patrons, through the provision of rooms equipped with closed-circuit television or other medium, material which is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts and/or which rents, leases, or lets any room for less than a 12-hour period or rents, leases or lets any single room more than once in a 24-hour period and/or which advertises any of the above. See “Sexually oriented business” for definition of regular and substantial course of conduct.

Adult model studio: Any premises where there is conducted the business or transaction of furnishing, providing, or procuring figure models who pose in any manner which is not prohibited under Title 4, Division 14, Chapter 5 of the Irvine City Code but is still characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts for the purpose of being observed or viewed by any person or being sketched, painted, drawn, sculptured, photographed, filmed, videotaped, or otherwise similarly depicted before persons who pay a fee, or any other thing of value, as a consideration, compensation, or gratuity for the right or opportunity to so observe a figure model or as a condition of remaining on the premises. “Adult model studio” shall not include any studio or classroom which is operated by any public agency, or any public or private educational institution authorized by law to issue and confer a diploma or degree or any live art class.

Adult motion picture arcade: Any business establishment or concern containing coin- or slug-operated or manually or electronically controlled still or motion picture machines, projectors or other image-producing devices that are maintained to display images to individuals in individual viewing areas or to groups of between 10 and 30 persons in other viewing areas when those images are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.

Adult theater: A business establishment or concern which presents motion pictures, videocassettes, slide photographs, or other pictures which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts or presents any type of live entertainment which is not prohibited under Title 4, Division 14, Chapter 5 of the Irvine City Code, but is nonetheless characterized by its emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical parts.

The city says the store is violating zoning ordinances as PinkKitty isn’t zoned for this type of business.  Well if not in an industrial park away from homes, schools, places of worship, where in Irvine then?

There’s a movement underway from the store’s customers to lobby city council members to have the zoning department call off the dogs and grandfather this well-established business into compliance.

 

 

17 Comments

      • Yes, since you blocked my comments. Keep up the good porno work. Haha. You have really found your niche

        • Your comments aren’t blocked Dave. Bet you wish you had a different IP address. You MAC address is another story. Look it up

          • Well done – a porn peddler and a pathetic paranoiac!

            Off you go now to Pink Lips to get some edible underwear and a plug.

            • Store closed Saturday city was fining them $3000 a day. Tammy Kim was leading a charge to save them.

              I’ll note your favorite political blog’s Twitter handle is Rimlikker and it’s publisher allegedly liked to pleasure himself in the bathroom according to a screen grabbed now deleted Tweet.

            • Back in the Fatherland this business would never exist under Herr Fuher Dick err…Dave.

  1. Can someone tell Greg Diamond no one gives a shit he made $160k a year and gave John Kerry $10k in 2004 She gives nothing to anyone now He brags about his step daughter’s buying cheap used clothes via thrifting His wife wished he made $160k a year Sadly he’s a loser

  2. I am IMPORTANT! I am IMPORTANT. Just ask Fitz (it’s OK to call people: “Jews, Faggots, Kikes, Niggers, Ragheads, BEANERS, accuse people of EATING THEIR CHILDREN” if you subscribe to Greg’s political ideology.

    I have watched my blogmates referring to me in anti-semetic terms, I know my defense of a sexual predator as “food porn” riled some..

    As I said I STAND BEHIND FITZ’S comments. Sometimes we need throw out the baby with the bath water, Just like Pol Pot (like my brother said, he was and Ho Chi were cool dudes).

    • William Fitzgerald is a racist bigot; for anyone to say they supported things that he said makes them a racist bigot. On you Greg. Bigot

  3. Greg’s definition of Fitzgeralds bigoted comments is reprehensible. NO ONE who calls themselves progressive can identify with his opion that because someone was born before 1945 should get a pass on using the words: “Nigger, Faggot, Gook, Beaner, RAGHEAD, PILLOW-BITER (all terms Fitz used at public council meetings). But then again he was good friends with a woman (Donna Asceveda) who identifies as #RIMLIKER. So I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

    I wonder how Ryan and Jose explain this to their children? Greg and Vern have none so they don’t care (To be fair, Vern Nelson abandoned his children long ago).

  4. Hey Pervert,

    Denis was LOVED. Just check out the picture Vern took at his burial, there were NINE people there. Yep, asshole NINE people (Two of whom were driving the hearse). Thats how much he was loved. AND If Fitz wasn’t important why would Mark Richard Daniels, Jeanie Robbins, the Jones dress so eloquently at a funeral. THESE ARE CLASSY FOLKS, Greg couldn’t find his sandals so he couldn’t go.

    These are the REAL WINNERS in Anaheim, CA!

  5. Portraying Fitz as a good government advocate is like making Vern not pervert or Joey Acevedo not a gang member who was high in meth when shot Assholes all
    Of them

  6. Man. This Monkeypox stuff is nothing to mess with. Just got back from “Up Your Alley” in SF. Shoulda cleaned those chaps and Ryry’s collar. Donna do you have baking soda?

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