Posted on 09/12/2007 1:37:07 PM PDT by Reeses
The Belmont City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking in multiunit housing, a measure hailed by supporters as a landmark ban that will give residents relief from second-hand smoke drifting into their apartments and condominiums.
"It's to give people who are intolerant of second-hand smoke a chance to say, 'Please stop - you're violating the city's ordinance,' in the same way that if your neighbor has a loud rock band, you can say, 'Please stop,' " City Councilman Dave Warden said today.
The council passed the measure Tuesday night by a vote of 3-2. The ordinance also bans smoking in outdoor public places such as parks and stadiums, and in "service lines" such as those at ATMs.
Belmont's ordinance would be the first in the United States to ban smoking in multiunit housing, Warden said. The council must still approve it on a second reading Sept. 25; if it does so, as expected, the law will take effect Oct. 25.
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This included weed too, right? Or is that OK for people?
Incrementalism.
It should be up to the property owner to decide this, NOT the "city council" unless the "city council" owns the property.
Man I hate to see what America is becoming.
The councilman quoted, Dave Warden, is actually fairly conservative. He’s a good guy. My husband used to work for him, and he was a great boss.
Puff
Wow, great analogy, Dave!
BTW, Dave - please stop micromanaging the lives of the serfs - in the same way that Stalin killed 20 million people, Warden, you commie slimeball.
Another great analogy! NOW we're rocking LOUD!
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Sorry, on this subject he ain't no conservative.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers? ;-)
Once I was smoking a cigar in downtown SF in the afternoon, 50 feet from a hippie smoking a roach in broad daylight. A liberal socialist smoking nazi came up to me and furiously demanded that I move. The rope smoker was ignored.
Yep, it seems that these smoking bans are incrementally going to make it illegal to smoke anywhere.
So now they are up to multi-family rental units. The next step will be multi-family condos, even for owners of the condos. Then the next step will be rental houses. Then the next will be owner occupied single family homes.
They are doing this one step at a time. And to think it started as having smoking or non-smoking sections in restaurants.
It seems that if this passes, someone first has to make a complaint and then the offender gets warned; after that, subsequent complaints can invoke fines of $100.00/occurrence.
Smoking residents should buy a case of candles and several boxes of incense, hang a wreath of pot pourri in front of the ventilation intake, get a year’s supply of cabbage and a truckload of garlic, start cooking and settle in for a busier evening than the worst Halloween you ever saw.
People hate freedom and demand tyranny.
Airplanes.
“It should be up to the property owner to decide this, NOT the “city council” unless the “city council” owns the property.
Man I hate to see what America is becoming.”
Amen, brother!
Nanny State Ping................
Don’t say you weren’t warned...........
Let me know if you want on/off this list —— it is not only about smoking.
LMBO!
That’s right, airplanes had smoking and non-smoking sections. Then it’s gone from there, incrementally, making more and more places off-limits to smoking.
Funny comment from the person about being challenged on smoking in S.F. but nothing was said to the dude smoking pot.
Infringing on the private property rights, and legal contractual agreements of private individuals is NOT conservative.
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