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3. City-sponsored events: City events (Hometown Holidays) could have specific no smoking provisions. For example, the City of Dublin bans smoking at city- sponsored events (but has designated smoking areas). 4. Conditional use permit (CUP): Some activities are subject to a CUP (Saturday Farmers' Market). Planning staff could work with permit holders to make an administrative amendment to modify a CUP to add non-smoking provisions if desired by the permit holder. 5. Blanket ban: Livermore and Walnut Creek both ban smoking within designated downtown / pedestrian areas. 6. Enforcement: Any of these options would require `No Smoking' signage. Enforcement would include: (a) warnings by City and event staff; and (b) administrative citation ($100 fine) by police officers. The committee members led insightful discussion about their general perception that not too many customers are actively walking through the Downtown and smoking. Rather, it is often employees taking a cigarette break behind a business or in a parking lot. There was not majority support for any blanket ban (No. 5, above). There was concern that if a ban were adopted, a smoking area should be established, but that may result in a few properties bearing the brunt of the smokers congregating there. The committee, as well as the PDA's Board of Directors at its September meeting, recommended smoking restrictions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, above. This recommendation would allow each event sponsor or permit holder to decide if their event should be smoke-free. This would also recommend a ban on smoking at City-sponsored events. The discussion at the committee meeting was that this approach would provide a good balance for a smoking ban at family-oriented events (e.g. daytime Big Draw), but still allow smoking for events catering to adults (e.g. evening Wine Stroll). Discussion about enforcement considerations (and potential public confusion if some events allow smoking, but some events ban it) resulted in an active conversation about event signage, advance advertising, a warning process, as well as enforcement. Staff supports the PDA's recommendation. To make these smoking restrictions a clear option for persons holding Downtown events, and to make enforcement possible by administrative citation, amendments are proposed to the Municipal Code Chapters 9.24 Smoking in Public and Work Places and 13.08 Parks and Recreation Facilities, as shown in Attachment 1. Page 4 of 8