A staff report recommending a policy to eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke in open public spaces in Southgate has run into some resistance.
According to the proposed policy no one could
smoke cigarettes fashionable within 30 metres of any sports field or play area and within a 15 metres radius of the entrance to any municipal building.
For Coun. Dale Pallister it's just more regulations that are virtually unenforceable.
"You get so many rules that they reach the place of how do you enforce them all . . . when you need a bylaw enforcement officer to say that you're not to stand 100 feet away from the arena door, or whatever distance it was they came up with, it just seems to me that life doesn't have to be that complicated," he said during Wednesday's committee of the whole meeting.
