Panel takes first step to ban smoking in parks
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The city Recreation and Parks Board took the first step Wednesday toward banning smoking and open flames in most parks, citing the dry-brush hazard caused by record low rainfall.
The panel asked the city attorney’s office to draft an ordinance for City Council approval.
The ban would be applied from April 1 to Nov. 1 each year to those parks officials deem especially vulnerable to fire hazards.
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