On Wednesday, Ronda Storms had a premature referendum.
“I may be dead wrong,” Storms told her colleagues.
Her proposal caught commissioners off guard. They said it’s premature to call for a referendum.
……Hagan and other commissioners said they support Storms’ desire to put the ordinance to a vote and could place it on the ballot in November.
The nudity issue flared during a morning discussion about prohibiting mobile adult entertainment venues, such as the “stripper bus” parked outside Raymond James Stadium during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ most recent home game.
Hagan said he wants lawyers to review whether regulations deal with mobile adult entertainment or whether changes to strengthen the laws are needed.
Storms said taking such an approach to the adult industry, which she described as “a bottomless pit of creativity,” was piecemeal.
Last year, commissioners refused to allow a nonbinding referendum on whether to ban nude entertainment, even after 10,000 people signed petitions calling for the vote.
This year, the county hired attorney Scott Bergthold, who specializes in adult regulations, for $10,000 to review county rules that restrict, but do not prohibit, nude entertainment.
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