Tattoo Parlors Forced to Take Down Signs (Warsaw, IN)

• ernest_t_bass

  

  This is so stupid. Here you go guv'ment. Take some freedom away from me please.
  
  http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/warsaw-parlors-forced-to-remove-tattoo-signs
  

  WARSAW, Ind. (WANE) - The Board of Zoning Appeals in Warsaw has put an unusual restriction on two tattoo parlors: They can't use the word "tattoo" or any other advertisement outside their building.
  
  Board member Thomas Allen voted for the restriction. He said both tattoo parlors are currently in violation of a city ordinance. The shops sit within 400 feet of a residential area, just nobody realized it.
  
  Members approved a special exception to keep the two parlors in their current locations. The stores are now, in a sense, grandfathered in. But new restrictions were issued for outdoor signs.
  
  Tim Dombrosky is Warsaw’s assistant city planner. He said the city didn’t recommend the decision.
  
  “Some board members felt like it did substantially injure a neighboring property and that restricting their signage would help alleviate that,” said Dombrosky.
  
  Hank Hernandez has owned Hank's Tattoo in Warsaw for about a decade. His store is one of the parlors supposed to take down its outdoor signs. Outraged by the decision, Hernandez has teamed up with the ACLU to fight it. He calls it anti-business, unconstitutional, and discrimination against tattoo parlors.
  
  “I'm not going to pay to take that down and then to turn around and have to put it back up because of the people's ignorance on what the word tattoo means," said Hernandez.
  
  According to the city, the two parlors have about 10 days to take down their signs. But Hernandez said he will fight the restrictions every step of the way.
  
  “If somebody wants to take my arm and make me take that down then so be it, but I am still in the process of appealing this,” said Hernandez.
  
  The mayor-appointed Board of Zoning Appeals also ruled that either parlor will be shut down with a change in ownership.

• I Wear Pants

  Really dumb.
• Frothy Walrus

  

  This thread is really dumb.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Frothy Walrus;781737 wrote:This thread is really dumb.

  
  Thanks
• O-Trap

  

  That's about 30 seconds from the college from which I graduated. I got a tattoo there. Heck, you can see one of them from Rt. 30 ... and those residential areas? ON THE OTHER SIDE OF Rt. 30, which is either 4 or 6 lanes wide there.
  
  It doesn't surprise me, though. I spent several years living there, and Warsaw/Winona Lake might as well be a different country.
• oberhaus

  

  O-Trap;781752 wrote:That's about 30 seconds from the college from which I graduated. I got a tattoo there. Heck, you can see one of them from Rt. 30 ... and those residential areas? ON THE OTHER SIDE OF Rt. 30, which is either 4 or 6 lanes wide there.
  
  It doesn't surprise me, though. I spent several years living there, and Warsaw/Winona Lake might as well be a different country.

  
  You are correct. I have relatives that still live there. Very strange area. Lol
• O-Trap

  

  oberhaus;781781 wrote:You are correct. I have relatives that still live there. Very strange area. Lol

  Where do they live there?
  
  There ARE a few things I miss about the place. Hacienda mudslides, chilling on the docks by the lake, the wooded scenery, the historical significance of the area ...
  
  ... but man, the people are WEIRD sometimes.
• Frothy Walrus

  

  ernest_t_bass;781749 wrote:Thanks

  
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• ernest_t_bass

  

  Frothy Walrus;782038 wrote:QQ
  
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• O-Trap

  

  Frothy Walrus;782038 wrote:BTF

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• Heretic

  

  O-Trap;782063 wrote:Back to failing?

  
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• O-Trap

  

  Heretic;782072 wrote:Or 'Bout To Fuck, which Frothy is getting ready to do to Ernest. It is Thursday, after all.

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• Frothy Walrus

  

  O-Trap;782082 wrote:I think Frothy Walrus is about to earn his handle on here.

  
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• O-Trap

  

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• Frothy Walrus

  

  O-Trap;782130 wrote:Stop typing while ETB is hammering away at you. It makes your posts indecipherable.

  
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• O-Trap

  

  Frothy Walrus;782134 wrote:I was actually typing as I was hammering away at him. We tried it the other way around, but I eat too much spicy food and my bowels are too lose for pleasure.

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• DeyDurkie5

  

  Frothy Walrus;782134 wrote:I was actually typing as I was hammering away at him. We tried it the other way around, but I eat too much spicy food and my bowels are too loose for pleasure.

  
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• Frothy Walrus

  

  DeyDurkie5;782716 wrote:god you are such a fag

  
  Personal attack! Infraction point!