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Port Hueneme council directs staff to draft smoke‑free ordinance for multi‑unit housing
Summary
After months of research and more than a dozen public comments, the Port Hueneme City Council voted unanimously to direct staff to draft an ordinance that would prohibit smoking in multi‑unit residential properties and empower landlords to enforce the rule, with exemptions and definitions to be set by staff.
The Port Hueneme City Council on Oct. 22 directed staff to draft an ordinance prohibiting smoking in multi‑unit residential properties, following a staff presentation, extended council discussion and a sustained series of public comments.
Councilmembers said the goal is to protect residents from second‑ and third‑hand smoke while creating an enforceable framework that relies primarily on property owners and managers. "If the landlords are actually saying that they would support this, and they're asking us to give them another tool, we're giving them that tool," Deputy City Manager Charles Perritz told the council during the staff presentation.
The staff report summarized research into local examples: Moorpark, Carpinteria and Ojai have ordinances that ban smoking…
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