Centerville council tables body-art zoning ordinance after First Amendment concerns

The Centerville City Council voted 4-1 on July 1 to table proposed zoning-code text amendments in Ordinance 2025-07 that would add definitions and land‑use rules for body art facilities and permanent cosmetics, and to direct staff to research associated legal questions before the council takes further action.

The ordinance package, forwarded to the council by the Planning Commission, would create a new definition for “body art facilities,” separate “permanent cosmetics” from the city’s definition of “personal care services,” add permanent cosmetics as a permitted use in commercial and industrial zones and make body art facilities conditional uses in identified industrial zones, and remove the “tattoo establishment” line from the commercial table of uses. The Planning Commission recommended…