2 - North Shore News - Friday. October 20, 2000

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Councillors
hear from
shop owners

Karen Robbins
Contributing Writer

NORTH Vancouver
City council voted
down — 5to2 —
Coun. Barbara
Perrault’s proposal to
regulate tattoo shops in
Lower Lonsdale.

The recommendation was
addressed ata recessed council
meeting held Wednesday
night at North Vancouver City
Hail.

Council heard froin Robert
“Tiger” Alacerie, who owns

the tattoo shop. TX. Ink
Studio ar 23° Manne Deve.
“EP do not see how this busi-
ness is detnmental toa com,
mininw” he said. ‘irs our-
night discnmination that they
tned todo this.”

Jasan Doherty, who recent
Iv applied fora bustiess licence
tor his tattoo shop Millennium
“Tattoos inthe Lower Lonsdale
arca, said he is relieved council
turned the recommendation
down, “LP would have lust nv
business,” he said.

Perrault: admiticd it was
Dohberty’s application for a
licence that sparked the ree:
ommendation in che first
phice. Members of the Lower
Lonsdale Business Association,
who were converned about
the new shop, approached her
with the issue,

“A proliferation of those

types of businesses would ere:
ate an atmosphere where!
wanild be afraid to go out in
late at night,” she said.

Mavor | Barbara | Sharp
agreed with Perrault, She sug
gested that council amend the
recommendation ta limit: not
just tattoo shops but alo other
businesses —~ such as hotdog,
vendors --- as well. “Tf we have

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too much of one thing then
we seta bad tene in our com-
munity,” she sad.

However, the male mem
bers of council did not agree.
Coun. Darrell Mussatto. said
tattoo shops would set ruin
the atmosphere of the com
munity but rather enhance it.
“Besides, its a stippery slope
when we try to regulate

See it.

Vrerear

ity tatioo regulation bid defeated

morals,” he said.

Coun. Craig Keating, who
also turned down the recom:
mendation, said council

should not regulate wpes of

businesses in the community,
but rather Gow businesses in

general are run. “Phe role of

public office is not to instita-
Uenalize culcural bias but
rather challenge it,” he said.

it, feek i at COM:

JASAN Doherty relieved
by Wednesday's vote.

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