review of jay jay’s license application

Review of Jay Jay’s License Application

Public Record Documents Acquired by OurLakeshore.net, Jay Jay’s Sub Group

Includes:

1. City of Etobicoke (New Toronto) Zoning documents as related to non conforming use

2. Municipal Licensing and Standards Business License Application

3. Municipal Licensing and Standards Request for Zoning Clearance

4. Transcript of the Licensing Tribunal that heard and issued the license

Note: Areas of interest are circled in red

City Of Etobicoke Zoning By-Law Full text can be found here: http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/etobicokecodes/0894_350.pdf

Pertinent Excerpts are below

City Of Toronto Municipal Licensing and Standards

Business License Application

City Of Toronto Municipal Licensing and Standards

Request For Zoning Clearance

City Of Toronto

Municipal Licensing and Standards

Letter to the Toronto Licensing Tribunal regarding a Hearing to determine whether or not a new Adult Entertainment Parlour License should be granted

City Of Toronto

Toronto Licensing Tribunal Hearing Transcript

Sourced from Graham’s Reporting

Note:

There appears to be confusion at the tribunal hearing regarding why the application was brought to the Tribunal and an indication that this

is the first time this has happened

JG:jg 1101-1 TORONTO LICENSING TRIBUNAL

This is a Hearing of the Toronto Licensing Tribunal, held at the East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, on the 1st day of November 2007, commencing at 9:56 a.m. ----- I N T H E M A T T E R O F: 760391 ONTARIO INC., O/A JAY-JAY'S INN; (Report No. 4562) ----- B E F O R E: JOEL DICK -- The Chairperson ANGELO AMENTA -- A Member ED SHILLER -- A Member C O U N S E L: MICHELE WRIGHT -- Municipal Licensing and Standards Division A L S O P R E S E N T: MARION STYLES -- Tribunal Administrator NIRMAL BAHAL -- Tribunal Secretary ANN HARRICHARAN -- Duty Officer

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 2007

--- Upon commencing at 9:56 a.m.

MS. WRIGHT: Number 10 is the same type of application, Mr.

Dick, so I'd ask you to just deal with that fairly briefly.

THE CHAIRPERSON: Number 10. Jay-Jay's Inn.

MS. WRIGHT: Mr. Cohen?

THE CHAIRPERSON: Could Mr. Cohen be sworn in, I assume

you have some questions of Mr. Cohen.

JACK Y. COHEN, Sworn

THE CHAIRPERSON: Mr. Cohen, I know you don't have a

lawyer or an agent with you. Are you content to proceed without representation today?

MR. COHEN: Yes, sir.

THE CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. Please proceed, Ms. Wright.

MS. WRIGHT: This isn't a sale of an adult entertainment parlour,

this is just an application for a new adult entertainment parlour. If we could have Mr.

Cohen sworn, I was going to ask him a few questions.

THE CHAIRPERSON: He's been sworn already.

MS. WRIGHT: Oh sorry, he's been sworn. I apologize.

MR. AMENTA: Before you do that, can you just explain to me

why this comes before the Tribunal if it's an application for a new licence. Is that not

something that is dealt with by Municipal Licensing and Standards, whether to accept or

not accept the application?

MS. WRIGHT: I thought it was because it was specifically an

adult entertainment parlour, because I hear what you're saying.

MR. AMENTA: So all new adult entertainment parlours have to

come before the Tribunal? Is that the way it works.

MS. WRIGHT: Yes, I believe so.

MR. AMENTA: Oh, it's not come up before, so its...

THE CHAIRPERSON: Okay, thank you.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. Mr. Cohen, I understand you're the

president of the applicant 760391 Ontario Inc., operating as Jay-Jay's Inn?

MR. COHEN: Yes, ma'am.

MS. WRIGHT: And how long have you been the president of that

company?

MR. COHEN: About 15 years, I would say.

MS. WRIGHT: Throughout that 15 years, you've been operating

Jay-Jay's Inn?

MR. COHEN: That's correct.

MS. WRIGHT: And has it always been in the same location on

Lakeshore Boulevard?

MR. COHEN: That's correct.

MS. WRIGHT: Do you have previous experience working in an

adult entertainment parlour?


MS. WRIGHT: What is that experience?

MR. COHEN: When I owed the -- when I used to own the hotel,

Edwin Hotel, '71 to '75, I had another entertainment licence. And then when I sold it, I

purchase the Jay-Jay's Inn in 1981, and I had another entertainment licence there as well,

on both floors. I sold my establishment in 1988, I went to Bracebridge. I had a five-star

hotel. And I wasn't getting paid at my location, at Jay-Jay's Inn, so I had to repossess the

property. I repossess in 1994. I did some renovations. In 1997, I had the licence again.

And after that, for financial reasons, I let it lapse -- you know, and now I would like to

activate it.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. Will you be personally involved in the

running ---


MS. WRIGHT: --- of the business. There is a record being made

of the evidence that's given, so try to talk one at a time.

MR. COHEN: Thank you.

MS. WRIGHT: What capacity will you be involved in running the

business?

MR. COHEN: Hands on operation. From opening to closing I will

be there.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. How do you intend to monitor that there

will be no physical contact between the attendants and the customers?

MR. COHEN: Well, first of all, when I hire the dancers, there are

going to be sets of rules that they have to abide by, and I'm going to have a sign posted.

I'm going to have my security staff monitoring pretty closely.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. How will you monitor that the

bookkeeping requirements of the licensing By-Law will be met?

MR. COHEN: Well, I have an accountant for that.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. And it will be your responsibility ---


MS. WRIGHT: --- on sight, in terms of handling the money or

receipts?


MS. WRIGHT: And what will be the hours of operation of the

business?

MR. COHEN: From 11:00 in the morning to 1:00 in the morning.

MS. WRIGHT: And how many attendants do you intend to have?

MR. COHEN: Right now I have only three people working. I'm

going to hire them as I go along.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay, and what is your forcast, or projection, in

terms of how many attendants you hope to have?

MR. COHEN: That's include DJs and staff, and everything?

MS. WRIGHT: No, dance attendance?

MR. COHEN: Oh, dance, oh. I would say maybe six in the day,

six at night.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. Will you have individual rooms or cubicles

where services are performed?

MR. COHEN: I don't think so; I don't know yet -- I mean, I'll go

along and if it's required, I'll do a (inaudible). Everything will be done by the law.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay. So I take it at the present time, the

renovations you're contemplating are the physical changes ---

MR. COHEN: Yes.

MS. WRIGHT: --- have not been.

MR. COHEN: There is no renovation in.

MS. WRIGHT: Okay.

THE CHAIRPERSON: Just one question. I notice that there --

and you had mentioned it, you did have an adult entertainment licence in the late 90s for

this same location?

MR. COHEN: '97/'98; that's correct.

THE CHAIRPERSON: That's correct, but it hasn't been operating

as an adult entertainment parlour since '98 until today?

MR. COHEN: No, no.

THE CHAIRPERSON: The licence will issue then.

MS. WRIGHT: Thank you.

--- Whereupon the Hearing was adjourned at 10:52 a.m.

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CERTIFIED CORRECT:

Jackie Graham

Court Reporter