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

030 defines "Personal Services—Restricted" as personal services that "may tend to have a potentially offensive effect upon surrounding areas and which may need to be dispersed to minimize their adverse impacts," and it lists tattoo and body piercing services alongside check cashing stores, fortune tellers, psychics, and hourly-rental spas and hot tubs. 030's commercial district table shows "Tattoo/Piercing Studio" with a blank C-O (Professional/Administrative Office) cell and a "C" in both C-N (Neighborhood Commercial) and C-R (Regional Commercial), meaning Planning Commission approval of a Conditional Use Permit is required in the two commercial zones where the use is allowed at all, and it is not allowed in C-O.

130 repeats the same discretionary treatment: "Tattoo/Piercing Studio" is a "C" in both the M-U and DTM-U (Downtown Mixed Use) districts. There is no zone in the city's core commercial and mixed-use districts where a tattoo or piercing studio is permitted by right or through an over-the-counter administrative permit; every location requires a public hearing before the Planning Commission. A separate Station Center Planned Development table lists the use as an "A" (administrative permit), showing the CUP requirement is specific to the conventional commercial and mixed-use zones rather than every zoning overlay in the city.

The zoning code does not maintain a distinct health-and-safety licensing chapter for body art; the operative local control is this zoning classification and permit requirement.