Dearborn City Hearing on Oakwood Smoking Ban Set for Thursday
Residents, city officials and Oakwood representatives will meet to discuss a resolution to complaints about the company's campus smoking ban.
A public hearing will be held Thursday, Feb. 7, to address concerns surrounding a no-smoking policy on the Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center campus. Residents of the neighborhood surrounding Oakwood came before Dearborn City Council in December 2012 with concerns that a city ordinance banning smoking on hospital grounds was driving patients, visitors and employees who choose to smoke into their neighborhoods. The ordinance, approved in January 2012 under the offenses chapter of the city code, added hospitals to the list of places in which smokers had to be at least 100 feet away before they could partake. It was enacted after Oakwood—which has its own no-smoking policy on the campus—came to the city asking for help in getting hospital …
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Pam
10:22 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I have heard that Oakwood Hospital has been made exempt from the City's requirement that they pay a license fee per paid parking space. If true, just another private benefit at taxpayer expense. more ›