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Winter Park wants the right The reworking of the intersec- REVIVING A to decide if parks are smoke-free. tion of U.S. Highway 17-92 and TRADITION On Monday the City Commission Horatio Avenue had been set for passed a resolution calling on the completion by the end of January, ETCHED IN GRAIN state legislature to allow cities to but with work still ongoing, city PARK STYLE, 9 regulate smoking in parks, which staff now anticipates the finish is currently allowed by state law. date to be Feb. 21. Park Ave’s dynamic duo Florida Statute 386.209 re- On Monday, the Maitland City serves the right exclusively for Council approved an additional Giving back to the community. the state – a law Winter Park has $8,785 from the city’s traffic im- LIFESTYLES, 7 fought to repeal for the past four pact fee fund to be allocated to years. cover additional time and to plan Women rank, men tank But advocating for city control changes to the construction proj- over smoking in parks is mainly ect’s existing $1.5 million contract Rollins basketball gets interesting. SPORTS, 8 a matter of principle, Mayor Ken with Masci General Contractor. Bradley said. Winter Park and Public Works Director Rick CALENDAR ................... .4 other Florida cities can control Lemke said other additional allo- LIFESTYLES................... .7 alcohol, pets and events in parks, cations are likely as construction SPORTS ..................... .8 but the air itself remains a factor finishes up. “Things always hap- PARK STYLE .................. .9 decided only in Tallahassee. pen when you get out there on CULTURE.................... .15 “I think it’s been proven that site and things aren’t quite what OPINIONS ................... .18 smoking kills in our society,” PHOTO BY ISAAC BABCOCK — THE OBSERVER or where you planned,” he said. CLASSIFIEDS ................. .36 Winter Park wants to control where people can smoke, instead of the state legislature Bradley said. “It’s taken 30 years as state law currently allows. The City Commission renewed a push Monday for control. On Jan. 22 an accident that sent to prove that.” two to the hospital shut down the SUBSCRIBE NOW! “It’s important to have overall The American Cancer Society Cancer Institute. intersection during rush hour. VISIT WPMOBSERVER.COM health, but this is a principle is- reports that secondhand smoke “It’s one of the most destruc- While the investigation into the sue for me – give cities the right causes an estimated 46,000 deaths tive forces to people’s lives,” accident is still ongoing, Mait- you have given them in almost all each year from heart disease in Commissioner Steven Leary said. land Police say they don’t be- other decisions to make this deci- people who are non-smokers, as “Employers can mandate that lieve the changing traffic patterns sion ourselves.” well as 3,400 deaths in non-smok- their employees not smoke, not played a role in the crash. City Commissioners couldn’t ing adults from lung cancer. only in their office but at home … Deputy Chief Bill McEachnie deny the potential health haz- There are 69 chemicals known yet we can’t tell people they can’t said the department hasn’t seen ards resulting from secondhand to cause cancer in secondhand smoke in parks.” any other increase in accidents smoke. smoke, according to the National n Please see SMOKING on page 2 there since construction started. Publisher statement on page 4. USPS 00-6186 Lawsuit brewing over red light cams Lawsuit looks to challenge Winter Park’s a lawsuit against the city of Win- to be non-applicable. ter Park for failing to provide the “We believe that statute isn’t surveillance and red light camera programs specific locations of surveillance applicable because we’re not TIM FREED without due process. cameras planted throughout seeking to actually have copies Observer staff “They don’t consider that the city, including up and down of what they’re recording,” Stu- A local Libertarian leader is they’re giving up their liberties,” Park Avenue. art said. “We’re simply seeking planning to sue Winter Park in Leavitt said. “I don’t think they Leavitt said he requested the to know the location of those so his pursuit to rid the community think about it that much.” information last month, but was that citizens can be on notice.” of what he believes to be two of The Longwood resident’s turned down and referred to Stuart said that even if the the greatest threats to civil liber- own outrage over the state of Florida Statutes 281.301, 119.07 statute was applicable, it’s still ties in the country: red-light and liberty in local and U.S. gov- (3) (a) and 119.07 (2) (d), which unconstitutional. Recording surveillance cameras. ernments, compounded with states “information relating to people on a consistent basis David Leavitt said he believes the increasing presence of the security systems” is “confiden- in a public area without their the devices violate the rights of cameras, led Leavitt to form the tial and exempt.” knowledge or proper notice is in the American people, filming Libertarian Party of Seminole But Orlando attorney Jacob violation of the due process right them constantly without their County last May, he said. Stuart, representing the Libertar- in the Constitution, he said. consent and, he contends, by The Libertarian Party of Semi- ian Party of Seminole County in At the state level in Tallahas- fining them for traffic violations nole County, he said, plans to file the lawsuit, claimed the statute n Please see SURVEILLANCE on page 2 Page 2 | Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 | Winter Park / Maitland Observer SMOKING | City could ban smoking if given power by state SURVEILLANCE | Suit questions cams n CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE urged residents not to smoke five designated areas across cam- n CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE year called Traffic Crash Facts, The Winter Park City Commis- where children commonly play. pus for the first time in the col- see, efforts to stop cities from which included when, where and sion made a similar push back in Neighboring cities have taken lege’s 127 years. installing red-light cameras why each crash took place. November of 2011. Commission- a similar approach. Orlando, Mai- Bradley hopes the city itself continue. A bill filed by Florida But in 2011, the reports no ers passed a resolution requesting tland and Orange County passed will one day have the right to House Rep. Frank Artiles (R- longer listed the causes of each the state legislature control smoking as Miami), which would ban the crash, he said. Florida had begun to “support local well. cameras moving forward after widely using the red-light cam- home-rule power “It’s one of the most destructive “I personally July 1, moved its way through eras during the previous year. over municipally- forces to people’s lives,” don’t smoke and the pipeline Jan. 9 as it was “The bottom line is that not owned property,” I’m an advocate for approved by a vote of 10-3 by only do they not reduce these while also promot- Commissioner Steven Leary said. non-smoking per- the House’s Transportation and crashes, theses cities and the state ing local awareness sonally, but I think Highway Safety Subcommittee. are going out of their way to hide of the dangers that this Commission Retired Florida Highway this data, to not release it,” Henry come with secondhand smoke. their own resolutions to repeal the or future Commissions should Patrol Lt. Paul Henry launched said. Winter Park had been pursu- state statute in 2011. have the right to decide what goes additional local opposition to “I’ve never gotten a concrete ing similar legislation since Janu- Rollins College successfully in- in in their parks,” Bradley said. the cameras last year after he answer as to why they won’t ary of that year, passing a similar stituted its own smoking policy in “It’s called home rule, and it’s released research showing that publish this data.” resolution in February that also January 2013, limiting smoking to a very good basis of government.” intersections with red-light Leavitt knows there’s still cameras in Winter Park rarely see plenty of work to be done to crashes related to red-light run- preserve the civil liberties of ning to begin with. residents, never forgetting the Henry pulled statistics from importance of the document that Freedom to... the Department of Transportation outlines their rights. and found that between 2005 and “I think the Constitution is the • All the fun, none of the hassles of ownership. 2011, three out of six intersections basis of what we need to go by • Full access to hundreds of boats. in Winter Park had only one red- to keep us strong as a country,” • Membership privileges at over 70 locations in the light violation crash in the entire Leavitt said.