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Applicant says zoning oversight blocked piercing business; commission approves rezoning and conditional use at 7611 Pershing Blvd. with waste-disposal condition
Summary
The commission approved rezoning 7611 Pershing Boulevard to allow tattooing and body piercing and a conditional-use permit for piercing. Applicant Jamie Walden testified she is licensed by the state, described sharps-disposal plans with a commercial vendor, and said she needs the permit to restart income; commissioners required commercial disposal details be included in final plans.
The Kenosha City Plan Commission on Feb. 5 approved a rezoning and a conditional-use permit to allow a tattoo and body-piercing establishment at 7611 Pershing Boulevard.
Applicant Jamie Walden, who said she is licensed by the state of Wisconsin, told commissioners she needs the rezoning because an earlier ordinance update only addressed tattooing and omitted piercing paperwork. She said the omission caused her conditional-use application to be denied last year and that she is now seeking rezoning and permit approval to reopen and earn income; she told the commission she is “almost out of savings.”
Walden described her plan for sharps disposal: needles would go into a locked sharps container at the piercing station and be removed by a commercial medical-waste company on a contract schedule; she said she has used that arrangement in prior shops. Commissioners probed whether biohazardous waste would be handled via red-bag disposal and asked whether the companies were local. Walden said there are local and regional commercial operators and that frequency of pickups depends on volume.
Staff recommended approval of both the rezoning (from B-1 to B-2) and the conditional-use permit subject to conditions, including operational-plan details and documentation of waste-disposal procedures. During debate Commissioner Brook (speaker identifying as S14 in the transcript) moved to require that waste disposal be handled through a commercial operator or an on-site screened dumpster rather than allowing applicants to take waste home; commissioners adopted that condition and approved the items by voice vote. The transcript records a voice vote; individual roll-call tallies are not recorded.
Next steps: staff will forward the recommendation to the common council for final action; the applicant must submit a final operational plan, demonstrate commercial waste handling and health-department inspection/occupancy compliance before opening.
