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F’ville to close movie if it flunks inspectionTue, 06/06/2006 - 4:25pm
By: Ben Nelms
Clean it or close it. That’s the word from the city of Fayetteville to Tinseltown. Fayetteville City Manager Joe Morton sent a June 1 letter to Fayette Pavilion’s Tinseltown 17 theater manager Brian Ortega informing him that his day in municipal court later this month is not his only problem. Failure to correct the months-long health and sanitation issues plaguing the theater may well result in Tinseltown losing its business license. “This letter is to notify you that if these violations are not corrected by the Fayette County re-inspection date of June 15, 2006, I will recommend to the city of Fayetteville mayor and council revocation of your business license pursuant to Section 46-102 of the city of Fayetteville Code of Ordinance until such violations are corrected,” the letter said. Section 46-102(a) states that, “If any holder of a business registration issued by the city should be engaged in unlawful activities, acts which would constitute violations of laws of the state of Georgia, city ordinances, city zoning regulations, city heating, electrical, building codes, and Fayette County health codes, and where such unlawful activities are such as to directly or indirectly affect their qualification to conduct the business for which they were registered or involves the conduct of such business, and where the holder is doing business within the city, the business registration may be revoked or suspended in the manner provided herein.” Tinseltown is scheduled for a Fayetteville Municipal Court appearance June 20 and another on Aug. 20, though the two appearances are likely to be combined in the June 20 court date, according to Clerk of the Court Kim Donald. Tinseltown is no stranger to trouble over health and sanitation concerns, especially those where rodent urine and feces figured prominently in the health inspections. Tinseltown scored 50 out of a possible score of 100 on a March 23 follow-up health and sanitation inspection and 54 on the follow-up to the follow-up inspection March 29. Large numbers of violations were cited on both inspections. An April 4 re-inspection saw an improvement, with a score of 83. Then came visits on May 19 and again on May 23, where conditions had improved. But not the presence of rodent urine and feces, as noted by Environmental Health Specialist III Peggy Monkus. Tinseltown will have its day in court on June 20 regardless the outcome of the June 15 re-inspection. On June 20, no one will line up outside Fayetteville Municipal Court to buy tickets and movie critics will have nothing to critique. But for some of those who once frequented Fayette County’s largest movie complex, it could be the blockbuster event of the summer. login to post comments |