The Cheetah's club in San Diego is a full nude club, no alcohol is served.

But when yet another nude club opened last month on the borough's commercial spine, just south of the Long Island Expressway, residents gathered forces.

Sgt. Thomas Madamba, who leads the vice squad, said the action against Bare Exposure had discouraged five other nude clubs from opening.

Beginning in 1995, Prestige had contracts with St. Joseph's Hospital and the shops in Channelside, and parked cars at restaurants and nude clubs.

The plot, they said, involved people posing to be constituents or sending bogus e-mail messages asking for a crackdown on nude clubs, to get the issue onto the Council's agenda.

In a fully nude club, the sequence could be topless-to-nude over two songs, or any one of a number of other variations.

In New York City, the City Council is considering two bills, one aimed at video stores and bookstores and the other involving topless bars and nude clubs.

Fully nude clubs may be subject to additional requirements such as restrictions on alcohol sales or no-touch rules between customers and dancers.

He said he had not been aware that tenant, Stelious Stephanou, planned to operate a nude club until it opened in February.

He then turned over ownership of one of the nation's most profitable nude clubs to the government, which plans to close it within a week and sell its prime real estate to the highest bidder.