Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) never ceases to amaze us. When he’s not looking to shutdown bars and clubs (whether he has a reason or not), he’s proposing schemes to put strip-clubs anywhere but in his own ward. He’s newest plan? Putting them under Dupont Circle. Yes, you read that right. Under Dupont Circle.

The Washington Times is reporting today that Graham has floated the idea of relocating some of the strip-clubs forced out of the area around the new baseball stadium to a former trolley-car complex underneath Dupont Circle. As you may recall, Graham managed to find space for some of the strip-clubs in Ward 5, but a number of limitations imposed by the D.C. Council have left two of the clubs searching for new homes. The area underneath Dupont Circle, known as Dupont Down Under, has been used in the past for a food court, though it has remained empty since 1995.

Though Graham has called the proposal a “germ of an idea,” a number of neighborhood activists have come out in opposition already, and predictably so. The area underneath Dupont Circle surely has potential, but is that potential best exploited by strip-clubs? Other ideas have been thrown around before, including a Washington Sports Club, a bike station or to revive the trolley system closed down in 1962. We’d be partial to a mix of the latter two, though underground restaurants, bars and shopping options also seem attractive.

What would you like to see done with Dupont Down Under? Would your strip-club needs be better met with new alternatives to the existing stock, which includes Camelot and The Royal Palace? Or should the D.C. Council pass legislation mandating that any more proposals from Graham on where to relocate the strip-clubs be limited to his own ward?