City issues ordinance violation to club

On Wednesday, the city served Traffic with a first violation of the nuisance ordinance for its “commission of crimes, ordinance violations or acts done, permitted, allowed or continued which is resulting in damage or injury to inhabitants of the city,” according to the notice.

By next week, City Attorney Dan Wichmer said, the city also should be prepared to serve Traffic with notice of a violation of local and state liquor ordinances.

“That requires much more specificity – we’re going through all the incident reports for 2005 to apprise the owners of what we believe the violations occurred and when,” he said.

A liquor ordinance violation could result in the revocation of Traffic’s liquor license, while a second violation of the nuisance order leaves the fate of the club up to the court.

Possible violations for a second notice include harassing or intimidating conduct, assaults, battery and public affrays by Traffic patrons. If a second notice is issued, a hearing at a municipal court will be scheduled and the club could face monetary fines or closure for up to a year.

The city issued the first notice in response to a patron’s knifing of a club bouncer Oct. 15, when dozens of police were called to control the club’s volatile crowd of about 400.

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