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File #: 19-6138    Version: Name:
Type: Public Hearings Status: Conducted First Reading
File created: 9/4/2019 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/5/2019 Final action: 11/5/2019
Title: Subject: Consideration of Municipal Code Amendments to the Cupertino Municipal Code, Title 5, adopting new policies regulating the sale of tobacco, such as requiring a local permit to sell tobacco products, prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco, prohibiting new businesses from selling tobacco near schools and reducing tobacco retailer density, prohibiting tobacco sales at pharmacies and in vending machines, and limiting storefront signage.
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. A - Tobacco Free Communities Policies Santa Clara County, 3. B - Healthy Cities Program 2018 Cupertino Dashboard, 4. C - American Lung Association Report Card, 5. D - Letter to Cupertino City Council from FUHSD, 6. E - FUHSD Resolution 1819-21, 7. F - Matrix of 35 Local Ordinances Restricting Flavored Tobacco, 8. G - Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community 2016 Survey, 9. I - Draft Ordinance to Regulate the Sale of Tobacco Products, 10. H - Tough Questions on Flavored Tobacco Products, 11. J - 8.6.19 Study Session Staff Report, 12. K - Survey Responses

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Subject:  Consideration of Municipal Code Amendments to the Cupertino Municipal Code, Title 5, adopting new policies regulating the sale of tobacco, such as requiring a local permit to sell tobacco products, prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco, prohibiting new businesses from selling tobacco near schools and reducing tobacco retailer density, prohibiting tobacco sales at pharmacies and in vending machines, and limiting storefront signage.

 

Recommended Action

1.                     Conduct the first reading of Ordinance No. 19-2190: “An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Cupertino adding chapter 5.50 to title 5 (Business Licenses and Regulations) to regulate the sale of tobacco products and repealing chapter 10.27 of the Municipal Code (Cigarette and/or Tobacco Vending Machines)”;

2.                     Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the County of Santa Clara to administer, implement, and enforce Cupertino’s ordinance; and

3.                      Find that the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA.