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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 2021 1 ORDINANCE NO. 2021 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF BURLINGAME AMENDING CHAPTER 8.18 OF THE BURLINGAME MUNICIPAL CODE TO EXTEND A TEMPORARY BAN ON SMOKING IN THE BROADWAY BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, AND TO CREATE A TEMPORARY BAN ON SMOKING IN THE DOWNTOWN BURLINGAME BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2024, AND TO MAKE OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THIS CHAPTER TO COMPLY WITH STATE LAW; CEQA DETERMINATION: EXEMPT PURSUANT TO STATE CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION 15378 AND 15061(b)(3) WHEREAS, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) and the U.S. Public Health Service estimates that exposure to secondhand smoke causes an estimated 41,000 deaths each year1; and WHEREAS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has stated that the adverse health effects of second-hand smoke remain the same regardless of whether the exposure occurs indoors or outdoors, and that outdoor secondhand smoke inhalation poses health risks to children2; and WHEREAS, the California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) has found that as of 2019, only 6.9% of Californians currently smoke cigarettes3; and WHEREAS, the Burlingame Municipal Code currently prohibits smoking in various portions of the City, including (but not limited to) buildings, restaurants, sports fields, and within 25 feet of most city-owned parks and facilities; and WHEREAS, in 2019, the City Council adopted Ordinance 1970, which prohibited the sale of flavored tobacco products within City limits; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds it necessary to further regulate smoking within areas of Burlingame with high pedestrian traffic, to protect the 93% of the population who abstain from smoking from secondhand smoke exposure; and WHEREAS, prior to implementation at multiple higher pedestrian traffic areas, the City Council first desired to implement a smoking prohibition in one district for limited 1 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress. A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014. Printed with corrections, January 2014. 2 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Is outdoor exposure to secondhand smoke comparable to indoors? Accessed 10 March 2023. www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/outdoor-exposure-secondhand-smoke- comparable-indoors 3 California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Control Program. California Tobacco Facts and Figures 2021. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Public Health; November 2021. DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 2 duration, to better determine how to successfully implement a larger, permanent program for other high pedestrian traffic locations in the City; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Ordinance No. 2016, adopted in April 3, 2023, the City Council did implement a temporary smoking prohibition in the Broadway Business Improvement District, which will expire on December 31, 2023; and WHEREAS, this temporary ban was successful in protecting the public health and welfare of residents and visitors, and the City Council now wishes to extend the temporary ban until December 31, 2024, and to expand it to the City’s other main pedestrian area on and around Burlingame Avenue; and WHEREAS, while implementing these temporary bans, the City Council wishes to make additional updates to the text of Chapter 8.18 of the Burlingame Municipal Code to ensure its compliance with State and Federal law; and WHEREAS, based upon the recitals above, the City Council finds that the amendments to this Chapter are necessary for the protection of public health, safety, and welfare. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The recitals set forth above are true and correct, and are hereby incorporated herein by this reference as if fully set forth in their entirety. Section 2. The City Council hereby finds that this Ordinance is in the public interest. Section 3. The Ordinance is not a project within the meaning of section 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines because it has no potential for resulting in physical change in the environment, either directly or ultimately. In the event that this Ordinance is found to be a project under CEQA, it is subject to the CEQA exemption contained in CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3) because it can be seen with c ertainty to have no possibility of a significant effect on the environment. Section 4. If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion or sections of the Ordinance. The City Council of the City of Burlingame hereby declares that it would have adopted the Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 3 Section 5. Chapter 8.18 of the Burlingame Municipal Code is amended as reflected in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. Exhibit A shows additions with underlined text and deletions with strike out text. The Sections of the Chapter which do not include amendments are not shown in this exhibit, and remain unchanged. Section 6. This Ordinance shall go into effect 30 days following its adoption. Section 7. The City Clerk is directed to publish this ordinance in a manner required by law. ______________________ Michael Brownrigg, Mayor I, MEAGHAN HASSEL-SHEARER, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on 6th day of November 2023 and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 20th day of November by the following votes: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BEACH, BROWNRIGG, COLSON, ORTIZ, STEVENSON NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ATTEST: ___________________________________ Meaghan Hassel - Shearer, City Clerk DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 4 EXHIBIT A Chapter 8.18 – Smoking 8.18.010 Findings and purpose. 8.18.020 Definitions. 8.18.030 Smoking limitations in city-owned or city-controlled facilities and vehicles. 8.18.040 Prohibition of smoking in public places. 8.18.050 Regulation of smoking in places of employment. 8.18.055 Multi-family housing. 8.18.060 Where smoking not regulated. 8.18.070 Posting of signs. 8.18.080 Violations. 8.18.090 Nondiscrimination and prohibition on retaliation. 8.18.100 Tobacco vending machines prohibited except in bars. 8.18.110 Enforcement of Labor Code Section 6404.5. 8.18.120 Sale of flavored tobacco products prohibited. 8.18.020 Definitions. The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall be construed as defined in this section: (a) “Bar” means an area which is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by patrons on the premises and in which the serving of food in that bar area is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages. Although a restaurant may contain a bar, the term “bar” shall not include the restaurant’s primary dining area. (b) “Broadway Pedestrian Retail District” means the area within the Broadway Mixed Use (BRMU) Zoning District, as shown on Figure 8.18.020-1. (c) “Business” means any sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation or other business entity formed for profit-making purposes, including retail establishments where goods or services are sold as well as professional corporations and other entities where legal, medical, dental, engineering, architectural or other professional services are delivered. (d) “California Clean Indoor Air Law” means the California State laws regarding smoking that are codified in Labor Code Section 6404.5, inclusive of any future amendments. DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 5 (e) “Downtown Burlingame Pedestrian Retail District” means the area within the Burlingame Avenue Commercial (BAC), Chapin Avenue Commercial (CAC), Donnelly Avenue Commercial (DAC), and Howard Mixed Use (HMU) Zoning Districts, as shown on Figure 8.18.020-2. (d)(f) “Employee” means any person who volunteers his or her services or who is employed by any employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit. (e)(g) “Employer” means any person, partnership, corporation or nonprofit entity who employs the services of one or more persons. (f)(h) “Enclosed” means closed in by roof and at least three (3) walls. “Enclosed” shall have the same definition as in the California Clean Indoor Air Law (Labor Code 6404.5), as may be amended, including any clarification through an opinion of the California Attorney General’s Office or other applicable authority. (g)(i) “Multi-family housing” means any structure containing two (2) or more contiguous dwelling units that share a wall, floor, or roof. (h)(j) “Nonprofit entity” means any corporation, unincorporated association or other entity created for charitable, educational, political, social or other similar purposes, the net proceeds from the operations of which are committed to the promotion of the objects or purposes of the organization and not to private financial gain. A public agency is a “nonprofit entity” within the meaning of this section. (i) “Place of employment” means any enclosed area under the control of a public or private employer which employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including, but not limited to, work areas, employee lounges and restrooms, conference and class rooms, cafeterias and hallways. (k) “Place of employment or workplace” shall have the same definition as in the California Clean Indoor Air Law (Labor Code 6404.5), as may be amended, including any clarification through an opinion by the California Attorney General’s Office or other applicable authority. (j)(l) “Public place” means any enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including, but not limited to: banks, educational facilities, health facilities, public transportation facilities, reception areas, restaurants, retail food production and marketing establishments, rail service establishments, retail stores, theaters and waiting rooms. Public place also means that city-owned or operated property—whether enclosed or open-air—described in Section 8.18.030. DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 6 (k)(m) “Restaurant” means any coffee shop, cafeteria, sandwich stand, soda fountain, private or public school cafeteria and any other eating establishment, organization, club, boardinghouse or guest house, which gives or offers food for sale to the public, guests, patrons or employees. (l)(n) “Retail tobacco store” means a retail store utilized primarily for the sale of tobacco products and accessories. shop” shall have the same definition as in the California Clean Indoor Air Law (Labor Code 6404.5), as may be amended, including any clarification through an opinion of the California Attorney General’s Office or other applicable authority. Generally, this describes any business establishment, the main purpose of which is the sale of tobacco products, including, but not limited to, cigars, pipe tobacco, and smoking accessories. (m)(o) “Service line” means indoor line at which one or more persons are waiting for or receiving service of any kind, whether or not such service includes the exchange of money. (p) “Smokers’ lounge,” or “Private smokers’ lounge,” shall have the same definition as in the California Clean Indoor Air Law (Labor Code 6404.5), as may be amended, including any clarification through an opinion of the California Attorney General’s Office or other applicable authority. Generally, this describes any enclosed area in or attached to a retail tobacco shop that is dedicated to the use of tobacco products, including, but not limited to, cigars and pipes. (n)(q) “Smoking” means inhaling, exhaling, burning or carrying any lighted pipe, cigar or cigarette of any kind, or any other combustible substance. For the purposes of this Chapter, smoking shall also include the use of any electronic smoking device, or “vaping.” (o)(r) “Sports arena” means sports pavilions, gymnasiums, health spas, boxing arenas, swimming pools, athletic fields, roller and ice rinks, bowling alleys and other similar places where members of the public assemble to engage in physical exercise, participate in athletic competition or witness sports events. (p)(s) “Tobacco vending machine” means any electronic or mechanical device or appliance the operation of which depends upon the insertion of money, whether in coin or paper currency, or other things representative of value, which dispenses or releases a tobacco product. 8.18.040 Prohibition of smoking in public places. DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 7 (a) Smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed public places, including, but not limited to, the following places: (1) Elevators and restrooms; (2) Buses, taxicabs and other means of public transit under the authority of the city of Burlingame; (3) Service lines; (4) Retail stores; (5) Restaurants; (6) All areas available to and customarily used by the general public in all businesses and nonprofit entities patronized by the public, including, but not limited to, business offices, and banks; (7) Public areas of aquariums, libraries and museums when open to the public; (8) Any building not open to the sky which is used primarily for exhibiting any motion picture, stage drama, lecture, musical recital or other similar performance, except when smoking is part of any such production; (9) Enclosed sports arenas; (10) Doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices, waiting rooms, hallways, wards and semi-private rooms of health facilities, including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics and physical therapy facilities; (11) Every room, chamber, place of meeting or public assembly, including school buildings under the control of any board, council, commission, committee including joint committees, or agencies of the city or any political subdivision of the state during such time as a public meeting is in progress, to the extent such place is subject to the jurisdiction of the city; (12) Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in apartment buildings, condominiums, senior citizen residences, nursing homes, and other multiple-unit DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 8 residential facilities; (13) Lobbies, hallways, and other common areas in multiple -unit commercial facilities; (14) Polling places; (15) Warehouse facilities of any size. (b) In addition to, and not in place of, all other prohibitions in this Chapter and under State and Federal Law, smoking shall also be prohibited within the public right of way in the following open spaces: (1) Throughout the Downtown Burlingame and Broadway Pedestrian Retail Districts. However, this prohibition shall expire at midnight on December 31, 2024. 8.18.060 Where smoking not regulated. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, the following areas shall not be subject to the smoking restrictions of the chapter: (1) Bars; (2)(1) Private residences, other than those located in multifamily housing, except when used as a child care or a health care facility. Common areas or areas normally open to the public within residential apartments, residential co-ops, residential hotels, senior citizen projects, or other communal or similar facilities housing twelve (12) or more persons shall be subject to smoking restrictions; (3)(2) Sixty five (65) Twenty (20) percent of the guest room accommodations in a hotel, motel, or similar transient lodging establishment; (3) Areas of the lobby in a hotel, motel, or similar transient lodging establishment designated for smoking by the establishment. Such an establishment may permit smoking in a designated lobby area that does not exceed twenty-five (25) percent of the total floor area of the lobby or, if the total area of the lobby is two thousand (2,000) square feet or less, that does not exceed fifty (50) percent of the total floor area of the lobby. For the purposes of this paragraph, “lobby” means the common public areas of such an establishment in which registration and other similar or related transaction, or both, are conducted and in which the establishment’s guests and members of the public typically congregate; DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 9 (4) Meeting and banquet rooms in a hotel, motel, other transient lodging establishment similar to a hotel or motel, restaurant, or public convention center, except while food or beverage functions are taking place, including setup, service, and cleanup activities, or when the room is being used for exhibit purposes. At times when smoking is not permitted pursuant to this subsection, the establishment may permit smoking in corridors and prefunction areas adjacent to and serving the meeting or banquet room if no employee is stationed in that corridor or area on other than a passing basis; (6)(3) Theatrical production sites, but only in a theatrical production itself when smoking is an integral part of the story to the theatrical production; (7)(4) Cabs of motortrucks, as defined in Section 410 of the Vehicle Code, or truck tractors, as defined in Section 655 of the Vehicle Code, if no nonsmoking employees are present; (8)(5) Retail tobacco stores shops and smokers’ lounges; (9)(6) Medical research or treatment sites, if smoking is integral to the research and treatment being conducted. Such a site must have not less than sixteen (16) air changes per hour; (10)(7) Patient smoking areas in long-term health care facilities, as defined by Section 1418 of the Health and Safety Code. Such an area shall have not less than sixteen (16) air changes per hour. (b) The exception to smoking prohibitions contained in subsection a(7) subsection (a)(4) above does not apply to city-owned or city-controlled vehicles or equipment. DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 10 Figure 8.18.020-1 “Broadway Pedestrian Retail District” DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C 11 Figure 8.18.020-2 “Downtown Burlingame Pedestrian Retail District” DocuSign Envelope ID: F7C38A69-4B07-4E18-89C5-517EC15D586C