NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the

Belmont City Council Chambers at One Twin Pines Lane

the Belmont City Council will review a proposed draft smoking

ordinance which contains the following basic provisions:

1. With the exception of the landlord/tenant lease addendum (described below),
this ordinance would be effective 30 days after adoption.

2.  Exposure to secondhand smoke would be declared a public nuisance.

3.  The city would encourage the affected parties to resolve any disputes privately
prior to city enforcement.

4.  City enforcement, if necessary, would be complaint-driven.

Smoking would be PROHIBITED:

· In all indoor workplaces except for sole-proprietorship smoke shops;

· In all outdoor workplaces (including at outdoor eating and service areas of cafes and restaurants);

· In outdoor public places, such as parks, sports stadiums and fields, recreation trails, and shopping malls;

· In indoor and outdoor common areas of all multi-unit residences, as currently prohibited;

· In individual units and their patio/yard areas of multi-unit, multi-story residences (apartments, condominiums, and townhouses) which share common floors and/or ceilings with at least one other such unit.

· Landlords would be required to insert no-smoking terms in their residential leases, per the California Apartment Association's Approved Form.

· These landlord/tenant lease provisions would go into effect 14 months after adoption of the ordinance.

· Twenty feet from all places (except outdoor workplaces) where smoking is prohibited. 

Smoking would be ALLOWED:

· On all streets and sidewalks, unless being used as outdoor workplaces, or at city-sponsored events (such as parades and fairs);

· In all single family homes and their patio/yard areas;

· In individual units and their patio/yard areas of multi-unit residences (apartments, condominiums, and townhouses) which do not share any common floors and/or ceilings with any other such units;

· In owner-designated outdoor smoking areas of multi-unit residences;

· In any city-designated outdoor smoking areas;

· In moving vehicles.