Residents of Missouri City will have the chance May 8 to vote on whether city council should create an ordinance prohibiting smoking in certain public places. The proposition will be on the Special Election ballot, along with the adoption of a consolidated municipal trash program.
Council members wanted to make it clear at Monday night’s meeting that the smoking ban has not been drafted and will not be until, and if, voters approve the proposition.
Mayor Allen Owen said he suspects the ordinance will pass.
“Our intention with this is we want to ake this ordinance as close to what other cities have done,” said Owen. “We do not want to restrict our businesses any more than anyone else or allow them privileges that somebody else doesn’t.”
Council members have apparently been flooded with e-mails on the issue, and several speakers came to the meeting in support of a ban on smoking in restaurants.
