C.W. Nevius

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Marie-France Ladine, principal of the San Francisco City Academy in the Tenderloin, got an unpleasant surprise last week. She learned that the faith-based school's new neighbor is going to be the Power Exchange sex club.
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The Question

Sex club moving in next to K-8 school in Tenderloin:
It shouldn't be allowed
City Academy is in wrong spot
Power Exchange shouldn't be legal
Rare opportunity for realistic sex ed

"Our school is right next door," she said. "We can hear the music through the wall."

Actually, that music was from the previous tenant, the Pink Diamonds strip club, and if you were a world-class optimist, you might say that the Power Exchange is an improvement. Although the sex club has been controversial, it hasn't had the outbreaks of violence that made Pink Diamonds notorious.

"One evening we had a youth group," Ladine said. "And as soon as they got there, shots were fired. They were diving on the floor."

Terrance Alan, who owns the building at 220 Jones, next to the Academy, says it isn't his fault there's a school next to a club that sponsors sex between consenting patrons.

"An adult business has been open at that location continuously since 1952," Alan said. "The school moved in there with full knowledge that this was an adult business."

True, but the Tenderloin neighbors complain that there was no community outreach, no advance warning, and no chance to speak out against a sex club opening next to a school that has students from kindergarten to eighth grade.

"There are 3,500 kids in this community," said Ladine. "They're poor, they're scared, and a lot of them don't speak English. They have no voice."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/16/BA5I1C0TL9.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0fj0TpVWA

The SFGATE article had a nice poll along with the article. The school moved in knowing there has been ADULT ZONING on that site for awhile...

here's the poll

The Question

Sex club moving in next to K-8 school in Tenderloin:
It shouldn't be allowed
City Academy is in wrong spot
Power Exchange shouldn't be legal
Rare opportunity for realistic sex ed

you all have read the news, now you are going to hear: THE REST OF THE STORY .

the power exchange at 220 jones has been active and alive. i know because i walk up and down jones between market and california every fucking day, and every fucking night. from the look of thing, fuckings inside 220 jones may not an impossibility during the past week.

the picture below was taken May 24 2007, but the THE REST OF THE STORY as told in the para above is in reference to the week ending Feb 26 2010.

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