Petaluma, CA Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

20 Regulation of Smoking adopted by Ordinance 2449 NCS in 2013, prohibits smoking in the unenclosed areas of a specific list of places within city limits: public places including public plazas, within twenty feet of a working road or building and construction crew, recreation areas, open space, service areas including Petaluma Transit stops, dining areas, and common areas of multifamily properties and public events, subject to narrow carve-outs. 090, but only if it sits at least twenty feet from any doorway or window into a smoke-free enclosed area, at least one hundred feet from playgrounds or pools, and covers no more than ten percent of the property's unenclosed area.

070 layers on a twenty-foot buffer rule: even where outdoor smoking is otherwise allowed, it is barred within twenty feet of any doorway, window or vent leading into a place where smoking is prohibited. 030(EE) covers e-cigarettes and vaping devices as well as combustible tobacco, the outdoor ban applies to vape pens in parks, plazas and outdoor dining patios the same way it applies to cigarettes.