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Port Hueneme council orders resident survey before multiunit smoking ban
Summary
After months of study and a staff ordinance proposal that would have banned smoking in multiunit dwellings, the Port Hueneme City Council voted unanimously to direct staff to run a targeted resident survey and broaden outreach — including to cannabis businesses — before adopting any final rule.
Port Hueneme, Calif. — The City Council voted unanimously Aug. 19 to ask staff to survey residents and stakeholders before adopting an ordinance that would ban smoking inside multiunit residential buildings.
The council’s vote followed a staff presentation proposing a sweeping revision to the city’s smoking code that would have prohibited smoking in units and common areas of multiunit residences, defined “multiunit residence” to include townhomes, and set an effective date of Oct. 1, 2026 for compliance.
City staff said the proposed ordinance reflected concerns raised in 2023 public comment about secondhand smoke in multiunit housing and cited research from the Public Health Law Center, the CDC and the Non-smokers’ Rights Foundation that ventilation systems do not fully…
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