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Multifamily Rental Housing Smoking Restrictions. At the Council's September 1St meeting, there was majority interest in staff returning with information about multifamily rental housing smoking restrictions in other communities, and a proposal to study such restrictions for Pleasanton. Staff has done an initial review of such multifamily housing smoking restrictions in other communities, with the results as follows: • Danville adopted an ordinance in Nov. 2015 banning smoking (including medical marijuana and e-cigarettes) in multifamily residential projects with three or more units, including townhouses, condominiums and apartments. The ordinance allows owners to decide if they want smoking areas in their projects. • Dublin has since 2008, and as amended in 2011 , required that by 2013 at least 75% of multiunit residences (defined as project containing 16 or more units for rent) be non-smoking units and be grouped together. • Livermore has no provisions in its municipal code, nor other policies, restricting smoking in multifamily (rental) residences. o San Ramon adopted an ordinance in 2013 regulating smoking in multi-family housing developments with two or more units, including duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, apartments, townhomes and condo minimums. San Ramon's smoking prohibition has significant exceptions by owners / managers of multifamily housing units to still decide whether to allow smoking inside of a unit, and outside with limits, as follows (emphasis added): B6-74. — Exemptions. The prohibition in Section B6-73A against smoking shall not apply to the following: ... B. Smoking inside a multi-family housing unit and in an unenclosed area designated for smoking by the owner or person/entity in control of the property but not on patios or balconies accessed from an individual unit or in common areas open to public access or to unrestricted common areas such as hallways. The unenclosed designated smoking area must be at least twenty-five feet from any individual unit and at least twenty- five feet from unenclosed areas used by children or for physical activity such as swimming or tennis. It must have a clearly marked perimeter and be identified by conspicuous signs. • Walnut Creek adopted an ordinance in 2013 providing that those who live in multi-family residences (two or more units), including apartments, condos and townhomes, are not allowed to smoke tobacco inside their units, nor in the unenclosed common areas outside of their residences (unless in a designated smoking area located at least 25 feet from where smoking is prohibited). Page 5 of 8