Liv Osthus, a dancer at the oldest strip club in Portland, was driving to her job at Mary’s Club last week when she noticed newly placed street cleaning signs in her usual parking spot, between 4th and 5th avenues on West Burnside Street.
But compared to the city’s typical street cleaning signs, which usually restrict parking along blocks every few months or once a week, Osthus noticed that these signs seemed unusually restrictive. They blocked parking from 7 pm to 8 am seven days a week until Nov. 26—directly overlapping with the strip club’s business hours, which run from 11:30 am to 2:30 am.
The stretch of Burnside across the street from Mary’s Club is where Osthus says most employees and customers park. Following unsuccessful efforts by managers and employees to reach out to the city and remove the signs, Osthus posted her frustration, accompanied by a picture of the sign, on social media. It was then that the Portland Bureau of Transportation, which handles street cleaning, commented on Osthus’ post that it had removed the signs and would “consider less restrictive measures in the future.”…