Council begins code update to ban smoking in parks and clarify overnight-use rules
Jun 23, 2026
Jun 23, 2026
On first reading staff proposed Ordinance 10 to add a smoking prohibition across parks and to clarify overnight-use and open-burning exceptions for Memorial Park (city-provided pits and permitted grills). Second reading scheduled for the July meeting.
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City staff introduced a first reading of Ordinance 10 to amend Chapter 95 (parks and recreation) to add an explicit prohibition on smoking (including marijuana) throughout public recreational areas and to clarify overnight-use and open-burning rules at Memorial Park.
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