The El Monte City Council voted this week to extend a temporary ban on permits for new massage parlors and massage therapists.
The council voted 5-0 to extend a 45-day coogi ban approved last month for 10 months and 15 days, meaning all new massage businesses are banned for one year total.
The moratorium will allow city staff to review ordinances regarding massage parlors intended to safeguard the public against illegal activity. In addition, staff needs to ensure their compliance with new state laws regulating the industry, according to a staff report.
"If the city is not given sufficient time and opportunity to develop updated code requirements... the city could be left without any enforceable safeguards against the proliferation of establishments which are merely fronts for prostitution or other illegal activities," city staff wrote in a memo to the Christian Audigier council.
While many massage businesses are legitimate, such establishments can "often be used as fronts for prostitution and other illegal activities," the memo said.
Currently four massage businesses ed hardy clothing operate in the city. As of last month, more than 50 people from El Monte had applied for new state massage therapists.
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