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
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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.

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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)

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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?
MR. COHEN: Yes, ma'am.
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 ---
MR. COHEN: Yes, ma'am.
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 ---
MR. COHEN: Yes, ma'am.
MS. WRIGHT: --- on sight, in terms of handling the money or

receipts?
MR. COHEN: Yes, ma'am.
 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