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toughened in North Vancouver City.

By BARRETT FISHER

Stricter operation re-
quirements passed by council
3-2. Monday night will in-
clude a $2,000-a-year
business licence and detailed
written records available on
the business premises about
employees, clients and pro-
posed locations of rendez-

vous.

But Ald. Dana Taylor said
cracking down on business
regulations is like admitting
the escort services are il-
legally-run prostitution
houses.

And Ald. Stella Jo Dean
said business licences should
never have been granted for
escort services in the first
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them as ‘glorified call girl
services’,

Amendments to social
escort regulations in the
business licence bylaw were
approved to keep a tighter
rein on two local businesses
— Comfort Zone Escorts
and Interlude Escorts, both
owned by Caro! McNeill —
and future company applica-
tions.

Taylor was against raising
the license fee to $2,000 for

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“The municipality is ef-
fectively saying escort ser-
vices are equated to prostitu-
tion,’’ Taylor said.
“therefore we're entitled to
charge $2,000. But we’re do-
ing no more to control it. All
we have to do is recognize
it."

Taylor said the escalated
fee eases council's collective
conscience but by raising the
costs, the legitimate and in-

nocent services are penal-
ized, and the guilty services
would continue to operate
anyways.

“We'd rather not have to
deal with it,°’ Taylor said,
“so we set the highest fee.
But if a service was offering
prostitution, it wouldn’t take
much to collectively pay for
the $2,060.""

Said Dean: ‘*Council, in
all its wisdom, voted to give
a license to escort services,

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except for me. Now we have
to live with it, but we need
to put some controls on it.
I'm not happy we're
validating this kind of ser-
vice.”

Dean said at an October,
1984 United City for Integri-
ty meeting, Inspector Lucie
from the Vancouver Vice-
Squad said, ‘Escort services
are nothing but a glorified

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