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Jump to full article: New Haven (CT) Register, 2009-09-22
Author: Lauren Garrison, Register Staff
Intro: NEW HAVEN -- A public hearing will be held on a measure to ban smoking on city streets surrounding the Hospital of Saint Raphael and Masjid Al-Islam mosque.
Alderman Yusuf I. Shah, D-23, who introduced the no-smoking zone, said it would result in cleaner air, a cleaner environment and increased awareness of the dangers of smoking.
He had hoped to fast-track the proposal by placing it on the unanimous consent agenda at Monday night's Board of Aldermen meeting, but opposition from another alderman led him to ask that it be referred back to committee to give the public a chance to comment. Shah said he expected it would be referred to the city services committee, but aldermanic President Carl Goldfield, D-29, would make that designation. A date for the public hearing hasn't been set. . . .
Shah said the mosque, which is across the street from the hospital, also wanted to post no-smoking signs to prevent thwarted smokers at the hospital from simply crossing the street onto its property.
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