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Smoker calls ban on smoking inside units violation of rights
Jump to full article: Inside Bay Area, 2008-04-21
Author: Mark Abramson, MEDIANEWS STAFF
Intro: A smoldering controversy regarding smoking in a San Carlos condominium complex has reignited, months after one resident took the homeowners association to court over the issue and lost.
Susie Parano, 55, and Jane Clusin, her friend and fellow Brittan Heights condominium complex resident, took their smoking complaints to their homeowners association last week by submitting a petition against allowing residents to smoke inside their units and on their balconies and patios.
The two women said the petition forwarded to the homeowners association board Wednesday was signed by about half of the residents in the more than 400-unit complex. However, the board did not take any action.
Parano lost a small claims case against the homeowners association last November in which she sought
$7,500 in damages that she said was caused by her downstairs neighbor Oleg Gitin's smoking.
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