Franklin County, WA Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

900). 240, which prohibits tattoo parlors from operating in the C-1 retail business district, the B-P business park zone, the O office district, the C-R regional commercial zone, and any residential zone in unincorporated Franklin County. Because the restriction lists only those five zone categories, a tattoo parlor is not barred from the C-2 rural service commercial, C-3 general business, or the I-2 and I-3 industrial zones; an operator still needs the Planning and Building Department's standard business registration and any building permits the enclosed structure requires, but the zoning-specific ban does not reach those districts.

170, reflecting a policy of keeping these use categories out of storefronts that face residential neighborhoods, office parks and regional shopping centers. Franklin County's zoning title treats this as a use-based prohibition tied to the zoning map rather than a licensing scheme with its own fee schedule, so a tattoo studio's principal compliance burden is choosing a correctly zoned parcel before signing a lease or pulling permits, not a separate tattoo-specific license.