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California nudists told to cover up to use Huntington Beach City Gym and Pool

The Naturists in the OC will have to stop going au naturale if they want to keep using the Huntington Beach City Gym and Pool.

Since 2007, the Orange County group has rented the facility for private gatherings at which members play basketball, volleyball and swim — all while naked.

The Orange County Register reports the gatherings came to an end in September after City Manager Fred Wilson signed a regulation banning gymnasium nudity.

Unfair: About 15 nudists told council members that they are being discriminated against. The naturist group have reserved the the City Gym and Pool several times a year for the past eight years

Unfair: About 15 nudists told council members that they are being discriminated against. The naturist group have reserved the the City Gym and Pool several times a year for the past eight years

The group say that when they reserve the gym, they protect the public from viewing nudity if they don't want to see by putting paper over the windows and monitoring the doors. City employees say they become distracted

The group say that when they reserve the gym, they protect the public from viewing nudity if they don't want to see by putting paper over the windows and monitoring the doors. City employees say they become distracted

About 15 nudists told council members that Wilson 'arbitrarily imposed' a regulation last year preventing their group, Naturists in the OC, from reserving the City Gym and Pool, which they have been doing for the past eight years. 

Wilson says it was too difficult for city employees to get their work done in the presence of naked people.

City employees have complained for years about the private events hosted by Naturists in the OC and has now decided to enforce a 2007 city ordinance banning nudity in public spaces. 

Naturists in the OC formed about the time Huntington Beach approved the ordinance and since then, had rented the City Gym and Pool for its gatherings in January, February, March, September, October and November.

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'We've been doing this for eight years,' said Allen Baylis, an attorney and Naturists member to the LA Times. 'We come in and cover the windows so people can swim, play volleyball, basketball or do whatever activities are available.'

Mr Baylis tried to rent the facility for an event in October but was denied by Community Services Director Janeen Laudenback, who wrote in a letter dated Sept. 28, 2015, that attendees of the City Gym and Pool are required to be clothed. 

The nudists are asking the City Council to rescind his order arguing the events should be allowed to continue because they were private and for members only. 

Manager, Wilson said the activities were never permissible and were allowed to occur only because of the opinions of the former city attorney

 The new city attorney has different views on the subject and so the meetings will have to stop.


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