LOS ANGELES – The Frisky Kitty strip club in Tarzana can continue to operate for now, but the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office will get another chance next month to try to shut it down, a judge ruled last Thursday.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs declined to issue a temporary restraining order against the club at 18454 Oxnard St. and its owner, Jamal Haddad. She set a July 17 hearing on whether a preliminary injunction should be granted against The Frisky Kitty.

Haddad’s lawyer, Roger Jon Diamond, [pictured] said Janavs’ decision not to issue an immediate order was appropriate.

“There was no emergency,” Diamond said. “They’ve been operating for eight years.”

The Frisky Kitty has been offering totally nude dancing entertainment since 1998 and is located in a manufacturing zone. The City Attorney’s Office filed suit against the club June 1, saying it is illegally operating within 500 feet of a residential area.

Diamond said there is an ambiguity in the city code that makes it unclear how such distances should be measured. The closest residents are senior citizens who live in an apartment building, some of whom said in previous interviews with the media that they liked the club being there, Diamond said.

However, court documents filed by the City Attorney’s Office say The Frisky Kitty was served with a notice of violation of the 500-foot rule by the city Department of Building and Safety in 1998 and that the order to comply was never appealed by its owners.