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Cypress Council narrows scope of proposed smoking ordinance, asks staff to tighten enforcement language
Summary
Council directed staff to draft a stricter smoking ordinance but removed sidewalks and streets from the most restrictive draft; members asked that the ordinance include 25-foot buffers from transit stops and 100-foot buffers from schools, and requested coordinated enforcement language.
City Council members in Cypress on Aug. 25 voted to give staff direction to revise a proposed update to Municipal Code Section 17 tightening local smoking rules, while removing some of the most far-reaching restrictions from an initial draft.
The ordinance, introduced by City Attorney Fred Galante, was described as the "most restrictive" version staff had prepared. Galante told the council the draft raised enforcement and interdepartmental consistency issues and recommended postponing final…
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