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<br />ATTACHMENT D <br />Summary of Standards for Outdoor Smoking Areas <br /> <br /> <br />Location <br />Recommended <br />? <br /> Food- and beverage-service establishments. Outdoor smoking areas cannot allow smoking within <br />10 feet of building openings. <br /> <br />Degree of openness, walls, coverings, screens & enclosures <br />Recommended <br />? <br /> Outdoor smoking areas with roof or overhead cover must have at least 50 percent of walls or <br />sides open to the outside air, with no coverings or screens on open sides. Outdoor smoking areas <br />without roof or overhead cover could have all sides enclosed. <br /> <br />Alternatives <br />? <br /> Current openness standard is 25 percent of sides open to the outside air, with less clarity about <br />covers and screens. <br />? <br /> Openness standard could be increased beyond 50 percent of open sides for roofed smoking areas <br />and beyond 0 percent of sides for non-roofed areas. <br /> <br />Legal, nonconforming status <br />Recommended <br />? <br /> Provide owners and managers maximum of one year to bring existing outdoor smoking areas that <br />comply with current standards into compliance. <br /> <br />Alternatives <br />? <br /> Provide legal, nonconforming status to existing, compliant outdoor smoking areas. <br />? <br /> Provide a longer or shorter timeframe for existing outdoor smoking areas to achieve compliance. <br />? <br /> Find a way to provide financial assistance for building permit fees that would be required for <br />existing, compliant outdoor smoking areas to achieve compliance. <br /> <br />Ventilation <br />Recommended <br />? <br /> Side and overhead dimensions counted as open must not be covered with screens and other <br />barriers. <br /> <br />Alternatives <br />? <br /> Allow mechanical systems as a substitute for area openings. <br />? <br /> Allow employers and employees to enter agreements about employee assignment to smoking <br />areas. <br /> <br />Administrative Rule & City Code <br />Recommended <br />? <br /> Revise Smoking Prohibited Administrative Rule to incorporate new standards for outdoor <br />smoking areas; revise City Code as needed to provide policy direction. <br /> <br />Alternatives <br />? <br /> Maintain current City Code language and administrative rule. <br />? <br /> <br /> <br />Revise City Code to address specific standardsfor outdoor smoking areas. <br />