They are all nuts there, Madame Dufarge!!!! 
Posted on 10/05/2002 7:45:15 AM PDT by SheLion
The Oro Valley Town Council, at the request of Councilmember Werner Wolff, will reconsider its 3-1 vote cast Oct. 17 in favor of what is the weakest smoking ban in the county.
The measure will be reconsidered at the council's Nov. 7 meeting.
"I screwed up and I'd be the first to admit it," Wolff said. "I didn't read the proposed ordinance completely. It's a lesson well learned. I should have and I'd like to make things right."
The ordinance passed by the council allows bar and restaurant owners to decide for themselves whether or not to be smoke-free. It requires bars and restaurants which choose to allow smoking to keep smoking areas separated from nonsmoking areas, to independently ventilate the smoking areas to keep out second hand smoke, and to clearly mark designated smoking areas with signs that include warnings of the dangers of smoking.
The measure was one of four options the council had to choose from. The only vote against came from Vice Mayor Fran LaSala. Councilmember Dick Johnson was absent .
Wolff said he didn't intend to give the restaurant and bar owners the right choose whether or not to allow smoking and would prefer that Oro Valley adopt a smoking provision similar to that passed by the Pima County Board of Supervisors in October.
The county's ordinance doesn't address bars, but requires restaurants to be smoke free. Restaurants with bars attached must have separate ventilation systems. A hardship-phase-in is provided for, giving a financially pinched business a year to complete the renovations and a hardship exception, based on a proven loss of a certain percentage of sales, would allow two years for renovations to be made.
Wolff said he also had concerns about the ordinance adopted in terms of Oro Valley's ability to enforce it and would prefer having the Pima County Health Department assume enforcement responsibilities.
"Let the county give us something back for the $12 million in property taxes Oro Valley residents give them," Wolff said.
Merrill Eisenberg, a member of Clearing the Air and research assistant professor at the University of Arizona's College of Health, said the ordinance passed by Oro Valley did nothing more than preserve the status quo.
Allowing business owners to decide whether or not to be smoke free, Eisenberg said, was an approach unlike any seen by her group across the country.
Typical. He expects the county to give back to him, but doesn't extend the same courtesy to restaurants. Just typical.
If SHS is so DAMNED dangerous, why does it take a law to keep people away from it?
Morons and liars. That's what their side is composed of.
EGAD!! Close that loophole, lest some freedom seep out!!
Thank heaven Eisenberg is on the job!
They are all nuts there, Madame Dufarge!!!!
What KIND of light. heh!
How's this? Ashtray AND a cigarette that is lit!! :)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.