Articles and Links - what's happening regarding smoking and Single Family Properties in California.

Articles and Links
Smoking concerns-Single Family Properties
in California, United States
November 5, 2015
I will post articles and links as I find them (this can mean daily or frequently during the day).
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Berkeley

Foster City

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Berkeley

11/18/13 Berkeley would ban smoking in homes, exempt pot Redding.com Berkeley City Councilman Jesse Arreguin doesn't think that laws have gone far enough and is asking his fellow councilmembers to expand smoking bans to include single-family homes with children, seniors or lodgers.
11/18/13 Secondhand smoke gets in your rights SFGate.com Councilwoman Susan Wengraf, who supports an ordinance to ban smoking in multiunit dwellings, is appalled.
11/15/13 Smoking ban Berkeley's latest Nanny State idea SFGate.com How on Earth could the city hope to enforce such a law? Would it install posters with a toll-free line for children, housemates and grandma to snitch on smokers in their midst?
11/14/13 Berkeley's next smoking ban may hit home SFGate.com Berkeley, where residents take pride in exercising their personal freedoms and resisting government intrusion, is the site these days of a much different kind of movement - one to ban cigarette smoking from single-family homes.

Foster City

7/23/14 City moves ahead with smoking ban — partly: Foster City Council postpones decisions on restaurant and apartments The Daily Journal The council agreed to ban smoking in public areas such as parks, create a 50-foot-buffer from entrances to commercial spaces and to allow those who own their single-family homes to smoke on their properties.

Rocklin

2/29/12 No ban on outdoor smoking The Placer Harold The issue was raised after Rocklin resident James Baker addressed the council on Jan. 24 as a last resort, frustrated by his family’s asthma and his smoking neighbors, who refused to stamp out their backyard cigarette smoking — just 30 feet away.
2/25/12 California town set to ban smoking ANYWHERE outside... even in your own backyard dailymail.co.uk A town in California is proposing to ban smoking outside, even for residents lighting up on their own property.

San Mateo

5/18/15 Guest perspective: Foster City’s discriminatory smoking ban exemption San Mateo Daily Journal This exemption of single-family residences is further discriminatory in that it requires multiple-family residences to post signs not required of single-family residences. Additional costs may be incurred if specifically designated smoking areas are established within multi-family complexes.

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