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Anti-smoking law expands to include all public spaces
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By Samantha Nelson
ENCINITAS — The city of Encinitas now has one of the strictest anti-smoking ordinances in Southern California after expanding its public smoking ban earlier this month. The Encinitas City Council on Feb. 15 approved an amendment to an existing ban on smoking at public beaches, parks and trails to include all public places throughout the city. The law will go into effect 90 days after officially being adopted into the city code and includes traditional tobacco products, electronic cigarettes and cannabis products. Last summer, the Environmental Commission previously recommended the council adopt a smoking ban in all public places. Following that move, the council directed staff to look into modeling the smoking ban after a similar ban in Manhattan Beach, which includes prohibiting smoking inside moving vehicles. After analyzing the logistics behind implementing and enforcing such a ban, staff recommended that the city’s new smoking ban make an exception for smoking in moving vehicles due to the difficulties of notifying and enforcing non-residents in town. Smoking in parked cars, however, is still prohibited by the new law, including in parking lots. The only places where TURN TO SMOKING BAN ON 5
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TURNS 40 .com Patrice Smerdu, community liaison at Carlsbad Community Gardens, admires some freshly harvested purple cauliflower and carrots from her plot on Wednesday at Harold E. Smerdu Community Garden, her father’s legacy. Story on 11. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram
Vista requires permit for skateboard ramps on Feb. 14 unanimously City adopts law cil approved city code amendrelated to skate to regulate ramps ments ramps over 6 feet tall, restricting them to the city’s over 6 feet tall agricultural, estate and sinBy Laura Place
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VISTA — Professional skateboarder Evandro Mancha and his family have enjoyed having a 17-foot vertical skate ramp in their Vista backyard for the past decade, operating the recreational structure without meaningful local regulations — until now. The Vista City Coun-
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gle-family residential zones and requiring owners to obtain minor use permits from the Planning Commission beginning March 16. Existing skate ramp owners like Mancha and his wife Courtney Menezes will have until March 2024 to obtain a minor use permit for the structure. A TURN TO RAMPS ON 8
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Oceanside native Savannah Coyle, a top pitcher for the No. 6 CSUSM softball team (7-2, 4-0 CCAA), also brings something special at the plate. Sports Talk on Page 15. Photo courtesy of CSUSM Athletics
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