When the Duluth City Council meets tonight, it will take up a couple of resolutions designed to polish the community’s image. Councilors will consider whether to ban smoking on the Lakewalk, and they may authorize the city to boost its budget in hopes of making Duluth more attractive to both developers and employers.
Lakewalk smoking
Councilors Patrick Boyle and Jim Stauber have introduced a resolution that would forbid the smoking of tobacco or other substances, such as synthetic marijuana or “bath salts,” within 6 feet of the Lakewalk or Lake Place Park. Stauber said a couple of considerations prompted his support of the measure. “Last year, when Duluth East opened in its new location, I got a handful of complaints of students smoking on the Lakewalk, forcing people to go around them and leaving their cigarette butts to litter the path,” he said.
Stauber also said there have been issues with patrons of the Last Place on Earth, a downtown head shop, smoking synthetic marijuana or chemical crystals sold as “bath salts,” another mind-altering product, at nearby Lake Place Park. “That’s not very conducive to tourism or to Duluthians looking to get out and enjoy the Lakewalk,” he said. Stauber said most of the response he has had to the proposed new smoking restrictions has been positive.
But he said he also has heard from others who think government shouldn’t further restrict outdoor smoking. Councilor Sharla Gardner has proposed an amendment to the resolution that would forbid the smoking of synthetic marijuana and “bath salts” on the Lakewalk but would still allow for the use of tobacco.
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