Listen as they consider banning smoking in ALL CITY PARKS. Funny...they allow drinking alcohol at the city owned softball park on the west side, but they are worried about cigarette smoking. Who this will REALLY AFFECT IS ALL OF THE mentally disabled veterans/clients that live at the Nouis boarding home(the old Pine Edge Inn) who frequent Maple Island Park, because it is in their back yard. There are other mentally ill people that live throughout the city in group homes, and in residential areas where there are parks close by that they walk in. How on earth would the city ever expect to police this? In the packet information from last council meeting, it states that citizens can ask people to not smoke. In other words, allow the public to police an ordinance. This is nuts. If a mentally ill person is confronted about his or her smoking in a park, this may present a very hostile situation. Even someone without a mental illness is reminded they cannot smoke in a city park, I see confrontation as a possible outcome. There will be big problems with this. I do not think this is wise. My two cents.
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