Tattoo parlors shall be subject to the following standards and regulations:
(A) Location near religious institutions, schools, residential districts:
(1) In the development, enforcement, and amendment of this LDC, it is recognized that there are uses and accessory uses which, because of their nature, are recognized as having serious objectionable characteristics, particularly when several of them are concentrated in any given location, thereby having a deleterious effect upon adjacent business and residential areas. Specific regulation of these uses is necessary to ensure that these adverse effects will not contribute to the blighting and downgrading of the surrounding neighborhood.
(2) Tattoo parlor shall not be located nearer than 1,000 feet to the same or any other designated use, an establishment at which alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed, or to any religious institutions, or public, private or parochial kindergarten, nursery, elementary, middle, or high school, or day care center. Measurement of 1,000 feet shall be made in accordance with division (A)(4) of this section.
(3) It shall be unlawful hereafter to establish any designated use within the corporate limits of the city if the proposed location is within 500 feet of a residentially zoned district.
(4) For the purposes of this subchapter, a designated use or proposed designated use shall be deemed to be within 1,000 feet or 500 feet of another designated use, an establishment at which alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed, religious institutions, school, real property, residence, business, or residentially zoned district, respectively, as defined or described herein, if any part of the building in which, or lot of land upon which, a designated use is located, is within 1,000 feet or 500 feet, as measured by an actual or imaginary straight line upon the ground or in the air, of any part of the building in which, or lot of land upon which, another designated use, an establishment at which alcoholic beverages are sold or consumed, a religious institutions, school, real property, residence, business, or residentially zoned district respectively, is located.
(5) Where a designated use is located in conformity with the provisions of this LDC, the subsequent locating of an establishment which sells or permits the consumption of alcoholic beverages on premises, a religious institution or school within 1,000 feet, or a residentially zoned district within 500 feet of the existing designated use shall not be construed to cause the designated use to be in violation of this LDC.
(Ord. 2021-02, adopted 3-17-21; sought to be reconsidered, Commission passed 4-21-2021)