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13. The California Legislature approved a bill this year, AB 1467, <br />which would have expressly banned hookah parlors <br />throughout California. This bill, which would have <br />additionally banned cigar lounges, and smoking in hotel <br />lobbies and meeting rooms, was vetoed by the Governor on <br />October 14, 2007. <br />E. If hookah parlors are permitted in the City, they will pose a serious <br />threat to the public health, safety and general welfare for the <br />following reasons: <br />1. Hookah parlors established in other cities have been <br />associated with increases in noise, loitering, public drinking, <br />possession of illegal weapons, underage drinking, and <br />arson. <br />2. Hookah parlors could exacerbate the inherently dangerous <br />behavior of tobacco use around non-tobacco users; diminish <br />the protection of children from exposure to smoking and <br />tobacco while they increase the potential for minors to <br />associate smoking and tobacco with a healthy lifestyle; and <br />weaken the protection of the public from smoking and <br />tobacco-related pollution. Hookah parlors would additionally <br />create unique problems of second hand smoke, because of <br />the hot charcoal coals used to enhance the burning tobacco. <br />3. Hookah parlors if allowed in the City would have adverse <br />secondary effects on surrounding properties, including but <br />not limited to lowering property values and introducing <br />incompatible land uses to existing neighborhoods. <br />F. In response to the threat of unregulated hookah parlors several <br />cities, including but not limited to the Cities of Anaheim, Garden <br />Grove, and Dublin California, have adopted moratoriums or <br />development restrictions. Other cities, such as New York and <br />Calgary, Alberta, and the State of Washington, have simply banned <br />them. Other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, <br />Germany and Turkey, have banned hookah parlors. <br />G. The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated February 4, <br />2008 and duly signed by the City Manager shall, by this reference, <br />be incorporated herein, and together with this ordinance, any <br />amendments or supplements, and oral testimony constitute the <br />necessary findings for this ordinance. <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />Page 4 of 4 <br />75A-31 <br />