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Clark County volition invitation nationalist comments and questions connected Wednesday astir a magician’s connection to execute with tigers conscionable disconnected the Las Vegas Strip, 1 week earlier region lawmakers are expected to determine connected the arguable show’s fate.
Commissioner Tick Segerblom volition big the virtual municipality hallway astatine 5:30 p.m. via Webex, the region said.
Magician Jay Owenhouse has projected performing with 3 tigers nether a 52-foot-tall structure covering a signifier and 500 seats connected an 11-acre tract astatine the southeast country of Sahara Avenue and Paradise Road, conscionable eastbound of the Strip, according to the county. The tigers would beryllium kept successful a cage connected the property.
The connection was conditionally approved for a six-month tally astatine a Strip location by the county’s zoning committee successful July 2020, but that tract adjacent Mandalay Bay aboriginal changed ownership, meaning determination was nary longer a lease successful place, according to region spokesperson Erik Pappa.
Animal rights activists have criticized the connection for being exploitative and dangerous. In a erstwhile interview, Owenhouse, who owns a backstage tiger sanctuary successful Bozeman, Montana, had said that his animals were “truly our family” and that helium hoped the household enactment would amended radical connected the plight of the endangered tiger.
Visit https://bit.ly/3q9A08V to enactment successful the virtual forum connected Wednesday. The lawsuit fig is 2494 333 4918, and the password is C8jcwePjG43 (28529375 if utilizing your phone).
To articulation by phone, telephone 1-408-418-9388 and usage the entree codification 249 433 34918. The region said that connection and information rates whitethorn apply.
The region committee is expected to see Owenhouse’s connection connected Jan. 19.
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