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REPORT - SMOKING REGULATIONS UPDATE
BACKGROUND: In 2013, the Council established goals and strategic objectives for 2013 to 2015. Council Goal 6 states that the Council will “commit to making Santa Rosa a healthy community where people feel safe to live, work, and play.” Strategic Objective #2 is to expand the City’s smoking ordinance for public/private places. The Community Development Department was tasked with bringing forward revised regulations for smoking in public and private places. The purpose of this item is to bring forward ideas for changes to the City’s smoking regulations to further reduce the impacts of second hand smoke, and to seek Council direction to proceed.
RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended by the Community Development Department that the Council, by motion, direct staff to update the City’s smoking regulations to: 1) Prohibit smoking in attached multifamily housing, including duplexes, apartments, and condominiums and any building that contain two or more att...
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