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Menlo Watch: City eyes tobacco ordinance

Should Menlo Park ban smoking in apartment and condominium units? In parks and gardens? Everywhere within city limits?

Those are some of the questions Menlo Park's City Council will take up in a study session at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27. The meeting will be held in the council chambers, in the Civic Center complex between Laurel and Alma streets.

The council will also discuss the prospect of adopting a licensing requirement for tobacco retailers, after El Concilio of San Mateo County lobbied it to do so.

Menlo Park resident Barbara Franklin has been stumping for a ban on smoking in multi-unit residences in the city for almost a year; the council is taking up the issue at her request.

Look! Another clothing boutique

No, you didn't mistakenly pick up an old copy of The Almanac. It seems a new clothing boutique is opening every month in Menlo Park, and you can add another to the list.

A new retail clothing shop, Look, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 23 to celebrate its opening at 642 Santa Cruz Ave. It's different from other boutiques that have opened recently in one respect: It will sell men's clothes, along with women's.

The Chamber of Commerce describes the styles offered as "casual" and "trendy."

For those of you still keeping score at home, this is (by our count) the seventh new clothing retailer to open since late spring in the downtown area. No fewer than 11 downtown shops now sell women's clothing.