So, in my town, there is an overload of tattoo shops,
tattoo shops are literally across the street from other tattoo shops.
A town over, where my parents live, there is two downtown, just a handful total.

Apparently, tuesday, city cancel passed a new regulation that tattoo shops are no longer allowed on the ground floor of their downtown and surrounding areas, as a way to preserve the towns 'image' for tourists & etc.



"It certainly can develop that image if you kept the door open and allowed whoever wants to show up," Clauson said. "I think there's a place for tattoo parlors. I don't know that our downtown core is the highest and best use."
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/dec/12/port-orchard-draws-the-line-at-new-tattoo/#ixzz2F5XwP4Vi

And apparently an existing shop owner agrees with the idea.

Has this happened in your town before?
Thoughts?
I've really never heard of something like this.

I think that is idiotic. My mother is handicapped and has a few tattoos and plans on getting more and if they did this everywhere she wouldn't be able to get one. I think it is a stupid idea.

Yup. Back in my home town tattoo shops are not allowed in the corperated (sp?) part of town. I think it's BS but oh well

I think it's dumb. Why would a tattoo shop ruin their image? It's almost 2013, not 1950.

Quoting Serial Mom ✄:" I think it's dumb. Why would a tattoo shop ruin their image? It's almost 2013, not 1950."

The people who hang out outside of them apparently, ha.

It's what we call a free market. There are churches like that here and no one sees a ban on those.

I don't think it should be city councils decision to shut them down, if they were to be shut down at all. Personally I don't think they should be.

I was going to say your city council must be a bunch of old fogeys.

Quoting Butterfly Guns:" I don't think it should be city councils decision to shut them down, if they were to be shut down at all. Personally I don't think they should be."

Oh the existing two shops aren't being shut down, it's just a no-no to any new ones i guess. (otherwise i'm sure the shop owner wouldn't have had as nice of words to say in the article, ha)

Uhhh... that's stupid  

Quoting Raindancer:" I think that is idiotic. My mother is handicapped and has a few tattoos and plans on getting more and if they did this everywhere she wouldn't be able to get one. I think it is a stupid idea."

Why wouldn't she be able to get one? They're just taking about moving them from the downtown area to other areas of the city.

Though i DO think its a stupid idea.

Quoting Chelsea Dawns Mama:" Why wouldn't she be able to get one? They're just taking about moving them from the downtown area to other areas of the city. Though i DO think its a stupid idea."

no, she's referencing the fact that if they were downtown, they couldn't be ground level.

Quoting £egendary £ex:" Uhhh... that's stupid  "

haha yeah, it would never ever ever pass in this town.
then again, in some parts, the tattoo shops are a nice break from the sex theaters/shops  

Quoting KNZ.:" no, she's referencing the fact that if they were downtown, they couldn't be ground level. "

Oh i missed that fact lol

Quoting Chelsea Dawns Mama:" Why wouldn't she be able to get one? They're just taking about moving them from the downtown area to other areas of the city. Though i DO think its a stupid idea."

Because we cannot get my mother upstairs. If she gets out of breath she tends to have an asthma attack and we can't exactly wheel her upstairs.