Parker, CO Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

Parker has no chapter dedicated to tattoo or body-art licensing. Instead, the Land Development Ordinance folds tattoo parlors into the catch-all use type 'Personal services, general' defined in Section 13.02.020, which groups them with beauty and barber shops, shoe repair, dry cleaning pick-up counters, alterations shops, spas, tanning salons, printing establishments, small appliance repair, florists, and pet grooming shops, while expressly excluding laundry facilities from the category. Because a tattoo studio is treated as this same use type, it goes through the Town's standard commercial zoning review rather than any tattoo-specific permit process: Table 13.05.A, the Town's table of allowed uses, is what actually determines whether a given property can open as a personal-services business, and that table cross-references any additional use-specific standards a Personal Services, General location must meet under Section 13.05.030(e)(16).

Any tattoo studio that also needs a separate license issued outside the LDO must obtain and keep that license in good standing for as long as the business operates, under the general use-standards rule in Section 13.05.030(a)(4). Beyond that cross-reference, the Municipal Code text supplied for this review contains no separate hours-of-operation, minimum-age, sanitation, or apprentice-licensing rule written specifically for tattoo or piercing studios in Parker. A prospective tattoo shop owner in Town should treat a Community Development Department zoning review, not a dedicated tattoo ordinance, as the Town-level hurdle to clear before opening in one of Parker's commercial corridors.