OLDSMAR — The City Council voted Tuesday to allow tattoo and piercing businesses downtown.
“I’m excited,” said resident Jillian Langley Santiago, who has been working with the city to open a shop on St. Petersburg Drive E, where she has paid rent on a storefront since February. “I’m ready to open my business. We just have to get our other licensing done and open up.
Previously, an ordinance for the downtown area grouped tattoo and piercing businesses with pawnshops and gun shops, which the original ordinance described as signs of “neighborhood deterioration.”