BRENHAM PLANNING & ZONING TO DISCUSS ADDING RESTRICTIONS FOR VAPE & SMOKE SHOPS
The Brenham Planning and Zoning Commission will hold workshop discussion on Monday regarding potentially amending city code to restrict new vape shops and smoke shops.
Currently, the businesses are considered general retail use in existing commercial zoning districts and do not have specific definitions or limits on how or where they operate.
City staff has researched the regulations of other cities in Texas and is presenting a set of proposed text amendments to the commission for debate.
The amendments include restricting the uses of smoke and vape shops to the B-2 Commercial, Research and Technology District and the Industrial District, meaning those businesses would not be allowed in the B-1 Local Business and Residential Mixed Use District or in the downtown districts that include the B-3 Historical Central Business District or B-4 Neighborhood Business District. Existing smoke and vape shops in those districts would become legally nonconforming.
Lounge uses, like cigar or hookah lounges, would not be affected by the proposed regulations since they are meant for consumption by adults 21 and older and are not specifically for the sale of e-cigarettes or tobacco products.
The amendments would also require smoke and vape shops to be located at least 300 feet from single-family residential uses and 1,000 feet from public and private schools, day care centers, public parks, religious facilities, public hospitals, and other vape shops currently in operation.
The proposals, along with any recommendations made by the commission, will go before the city council at a later date.
In regular session, commissioners will consider a request from Cornelia Wilder to approve a replat for 0.514 acres located at 409 West Alamo Street. The property owner wishes to replat the existing lot into two to develop a second single-family home. City staff recommends approval of the replat.
The commission will meet Monday at 5:15 p.m. at Brenham City Hall.
Click here to view the agenda packet for Monday's meeting.
Looks like this went up in smoke
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People live in a bubble and you believe what you want to believe. Fact is quit taking freedom away from the people. If they are over 18 and they want to vape let them. Fact is the sugar in the donuts at the donut places you crowd into is worse for your health! You want to move the donut shops out of the city limits? No why?People with full bellies have such short memories.
Now? Vape shop restrictions? I got News, the planning department is way tooooooo late. This too late reactionary planning is redickilous. The smoke sales that are allowed to stay will not have any threat of competition. That is crazy, right? What about the convenience stores that sell to the vapors? The ill prepared, too much, too late, planning department has already struck out and it is way toooooooo late. City of brenham is wasting our tax dollars at this point. Planners should have regulated vapors ten years ago. Tax payers are pay for this complacent planning department again just like the poor planning that happened with the too late impact fees. Be better to lower our taxes and defunct Brenham planning.
WOW so crazy vaping is so much safer then cigarettes the lounges and so forth are no better , the vape shops have rules for age as well . Keeping the shops so far away from family dwellings LOL treating vape stores like strip clubs !! What is really the reason ????
While living in Tehran, it was interesting to walk by a shop each day, where I would observe about 8 men gathered around a very large Hookah, inhaling whatever was inside. I have a feeling it was more than just flavored vapors. I brought one of these home with me, and painted on it is a picture of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s father, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Then along came President Jimmy Carter, threw the Shah under the bus, and I had to scramble to get out after watching Ayatollah Khomeini stepping off the plane. Ah, the good ole days when Iran was our best friend in that entire region.
Dont let them in the city limits.
I wish people would realize how dangerous to their health vaping is, vape oils contain arsenic, formaldehyde, and other dangerous chemicals but people seem to think it is OK and some people are even letting their young kids do it. I would like to see a total ban on vaping
Don’t vape as you chug another beer bourbon or wine . Alcohol is straight up a poison. You would rather tell someone how to live their lives than see what you do…
These are the ingredients in MOST vape liquids You tell me if that is safe? Nicotine – a highly addictive substance that negatively affects adolescent brain development
Propylene glycol – a common additive in food; also used to make things like antifreeze, paint solvent, and artificial smoke in fog machines
Carcinogens- chemicals known to cause cancer, including acetaldehyde and formaldehyde
Acrolein – a herbicide primarily used to kill weeds, can cause irreversible lung damage
Diacetyl – a chemical linked to a lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans aka “popcorn lung”
Diethylene glycol – a toxic chemical used in antifreeze that is linked to lung disease
Heavy metals such as nickel, tin, lead
Cadmium – a toxic metal found in traditional cigarettes that causes breathing problems and disease
Benzene – a volatile organic compound (VOC) found in car exhaust
Ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into the lungs