[Vision2020] Draft Ordinance Banning Smoking in Bars

[Tom Hansen]

Greetings Visionaires -

The "Moscow Cares" website has been updated to include videos of the
following segment from yesterday afternoon's Administrative Committee
session.

Draft Ordinance Banning Smoking in Bars

http://www.MoscowCares.com/071309_AD_SmokingBanOrd.htm

Your attention is invited to Parts 2, 3, and 4 where the following local
citizens provide additional commentary.

Mark Delabay (please excuse the spelling) of Third Street Market

Phil Roderick

Norm (no last name or city of residence given)

Matthew Mayer

Bill Parks

Kelby Wilson (ASUI President)

Christine Patterson

Tom Bodie

Robert Bodie

Will Groobye (again, please excuse the spelling)

Stewart Scott

Thomas Heward

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulbEBhPxqs

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGALlGCwzMU

Part4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNo75TWpX4

Your attention is also invited to Parts 4 and 5 where . . .

Bill Lambert suggests that smoking should be banned within 20 feet of an
entrance to a bar because, as Councilman Lambert offers "it isn't that
far".  Perhaps it isn't that far during the months of June, July, or
August.  However, during the months of January and February such a
restriction loses its appeal.

John Weber suggests that bars establish a designated smoking area within
the facility and that this designated smoking area would be restricted to
"customers only", no waiting staff allowed.  Hmmm.

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_vNiiIw6g

If this ordinance were to pass, and if my calculations are correct, the
only location, within Moscow's central business district, where smoking
would be permitted would be a strip approximately 6-foot wide and 120-foot
long in Friendship Square commencing at a point 20 feet from the entrance
to The Garden, winding itself and ending in the Jackson Street parking
lot.

Footnote to you smokers:  Parking permits go on sale August 1st.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown