Most Local Rental Units are Smoke Free, Report Says

More than 1,000 multi-family rental housing units in Calabasas are smoke free, a figure thats well above a goal city officials set four years ago.

In 2008, the City Council adopted an ordinance that the owners of such rental properties had to designate at least 80 percent of their units as non-smoking.

Since then, all four apartment complexes have come into compliance.

• apartments has designated 488 out of 600 units (or 81 percent) as non-smoking, and has been in compliance with the city’s ordinance since 2009.
• I apartments has designated 31 out of 36 units (or 86 percent) as non-smoking,  and has been in compliance with the City’s ordinance since 2011. 
• II apartments has designated 8 out of 8 units (or 100 percent) as non-smoking, and has been in compliance with the City’s ordinance since 2010. 
• apartment community has designated 568 out of 698 units (or 81 percent) as non-smoking, and has been in compliance with the City’s ordinance since 2011.

A total of 1,095 out of 1,342 rental units in the City have thus far been designated as non-smoking, according to planner Talyn Mirzakhanian.

Not taken into consideration in this report is Canyon Creek, a 75-unit affordable housing project for seniors that opened late last year and banned smoking on its premises altogether.

Mayor James Bozajian said that rental property owners could make their properties more restrictive on smoking if they choose to.

"If the individual property owner wants to make it more restrictive, such as exclude smoking as they did at Canyon Creek, they are free to do so under our ordinance," he said.