City hopes smoking ban will curb problems at library entrance
Jump to full article: Eugene (OR) Register-Guard, 2009-11-06
Author: Edward Russo The Register-Guard
Intro: Eugene resident Sally Krueger used to walk with her two children through the front door of the downtown public library.
But the smoking and cursing from people who congregate in front of the library prompted Krueger to change her route. She and her children now enter the building from the library's underground parking garage.
"I always have my kids with me, and it's the smoking and the language that I don't want to subject them to," said Krueger, an elementary school teacher.
But help is on the way for residents like Krueger, who have become uncomfortable with the behavior of people outside the library at West 10th Avenue and Olive Street.
City officials are proposing to completely ban smoking outside the entire library building, up to the curbs, early next year.
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