Currently, tattoo parlors and body-piercing shops require a council use permit in every case. Sheffield proposed allowing them “by right” in industrial districts as long as they’re 1,200 feet away from each other, but the council told him Thursday they wouldn’t accept that idea.
Some council members also had suggested earlier in private meetings with Sheffield that the Board of Adjustment, rather than the City Council, could make final decisions on tattoo-parlors.
Mayor Scott Smith was skeptical.
“Things such as tattoo parlors, massage parlors, really should be governed by how they operate vs. what they do,” he said. He noted the city was able to do that last year when it rewrote its massage-parlor ordinance to protect legitimate operators while making it more difficult to use such businesses as fronts for prostitution.

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