Longmont City Council to discuss expanding downtown smoking restrictions By John Fryar Staff Writer Posted: 04/11/2019 06:53:11 PM MDT Updated: 04/11/2019 06:54:09 PM MDT A woman, who declined to give her name, smokes a cigarette off Fifth Avenue between Main Street and the alley in Longmont on Jan. 31. At its study session on Tuesday, city council will discuss the Downtown Development Authority's proposal to ban outdoor smoking along a six-block stretch of Main Street. (Matthew Jonas / Staff Photographer TIMES-CALL) The proposed ban — which would apply to vaping as well as tobacco products — would prohibit outdoor smoking on all sidewalks in the First to Longs Peak segment of Main Street, a... [Read more]