Rialto, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Tattoo & Body Modification (2026)

34 governs the C-3 general commercial zone, the broadest commercial classification in Rialto's zoning code, permitting everything allowed in the C-2 zone plus uses such as animal hospitals, funeral homes, and repair garages. 020(U) singles out tattoo parlors for a conditional development permit, the same discretionary track required for motels, entertainment establishments, and arcades under subsections J, T, and V. 66, which involves planning commission review and can include site-specific conditions on hours, signage, parking, and building design before the use is approved. 58's general commercial parking ratios.

020(U) restricts tattoo parlors to the C-3 zone specifically, the use is not permitted in the C-1, C-2, F-C, or any residential or industrial zone in the city; an applicant proposing a tattoo studio anywhere else in Rialto would need a zone variance or zone change before a conditional development permit could even be considered. The conditional permit requirement gives the planning commission latitude to deny an application or impose operating conditions that a by-right commercial use would not face.