KANAGAWA (TR) – In an effort to cut back secondhand smoking, it has been formally determined that smoking shall be banned in all parks managed by Yokohama Metropolis, together with the favored Yamashita Park, from April subsequent 12 months.
In an effort to understand “a metropolis the place folks wish to increase their kids,” Yokohama Metropolis final month submitted a invoice to town council to amend an current ordinance such that smoking shall be banned within the metropolis’s parks. It was lately handed.
The invoice applies to all the roughly 2,700 parks managed by town, together with Yamashita Park and Minato Mirai Park, two of town’s hottest vacationer points of interest.
Smoking shall be banned from April 1 subsequent 12 months, with violators shall be penalized with a wonderful of as much as 50,000 yen.
The town plans to publicize the ban upfront by putting in indicators within the parks and utilizing social media.
In the meantime, town is contemplating establishing non permanent smoking areas to stop folks from smoking in secret when large-scale occasions that entice many individuals are held on the metropolis’s parks.
In response to a query raised on the metropolis council, Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka stated, “By clearly defining the smoking ban within the ordinance, we’ll eradicate undesirable secondhand smoking in parks the place many kids collect, and create an surroundings the place everybody can play safely and comfortably with peace of thoughts.”
