Smoking Ban Sought For Longmont's Main Street

LONGMONT, CO -- The Longmont Downtown Development Authority plans to recommend that city council ban outdoor smoking along a six block stretch of Main Street, the Times-Call reports. The ban would affect smoking on all the sidewalks, streets, and pedestrian crossings along Main Street from First Avenue to Longs Peak Avenue. As proposed, it would also include the east-west pedestrian breezeways linking the 300, 400 and 500 blocks of Main Street to the north-south alleys behind those blocks, and the sidewalks along the half blocks immediately east and west of Main Street's intersections with Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Longs Peak avenues.

"We're still working on our recommendations to the council," Kimberlee McKee, the Longmont Downtown Development Authority's executive director told the Times-Call. Still in development are ideas about enforcement strategies and development of "a strong public-education campaign."

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