No welcome mat for tattoo parlors, check-cashing shops

“Its thunder is being stolen by all the big-box stores popping up in the area. We want to offer the things you can't get online, the stuff you can't get at Wal-Mart -- arts, culture, entertainment and food.”

HACKETTSTOWN -- The town council on Monday is to vote on an ordinance that would narrow the kinds of businesses permitted on Main Street. via Daily Record

[yolanda]

I've gotten a tattoo at My first place and let me tell you,they are really nice people who work there. They do not look for trouble and as far as I know they haven't had any trouble there.... I am a high tax payer of Hackettstown,and I suggest you worry about cleaning Main St.so it can be safe for my kids to walk the sidewalks and for me too....so take that and put it in your pipe and smoke it.

[ginger]

I agree with Yolanda about cleaning up Main St in Hackettstown!Don't dwell on a tattoo parlor while everyday on Main St and Moore St has become a hang out for men looking for work, they hang in the corner park by the NYC bus stop at night and i can understand the reluctance of those who are leary about walking past them.Ive been at that red light and watched as they made comments to a young school girl walking past who couldn't have been more than maybe 12 years old and did not look like a 12 year old dressed in provacative clothing. Its the same old story,,its easier to single out the small guy,,just don't get politacly incorrect and offend the real offender!

[John]

Hackettstown should stop focusing on closing the doors of decent (tax paying) businesses and worry about all the illegal immigrants that are ruining the town. These illegals don't pay any taxes, but they are still a burden on the rest of the community. We are paying for their kids to attend school here, while they don't pay anything. Rediculous!

[Ethan]

Ahhhh... not to mention that the ban is a violation of all the parties civil rights (it applied not only to the tattoo shop, but a massage therapist as well). If I were them, I would hire a civil rights attorney and sue Hackettstown. It would be a relatively open and shut case. Tattooing is considered a legal business by the federal government and it is illegal to prohibit someone from conducting a legal business. The only reason that they applied it to the massage therapist is because under the federal coding, a tattoo shop is the same code number as a massage therapist. I have dealt with this before... and I won.

[kay]

I no longer walk on Main Street because of the comments and stares that my 21yr.old daughter and I get..It is sad that we are no longer able to shop on Main Street. Why isn't anything being done about that?