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A potential smoking ban in Lansdale’s parks, pools and playgrounds is at least another month away. Borough staff members are working on a list of potential “Play Areas” where a ban could be implemented as soon as next month, as it continues a discussion about whether to ban or restrict smoking on all other borough properties, according to borough Manager Timi Kirchner.

“These are two very different ordinances that would have to be done, related to different areas of the borough,” she said. “Let your staff look into this, something as monumental as this - and it is monumental - because we are talking about a significant restriction on all of the lands that are owned by the borough,” Kirchner said.

A ban in borough parks was initially discussed, but voted down last month for further discussion, and Kirchner told several council committees Wednesday night that staff members are now looking into the feasibility of recommending to council smoking bans in two phases.

The first phase would be similar to the intent of the initiative originally discussed last month, and would eliminate smoking and other tobacco use outside of designated areas at borough playgrounds, pools and possibly parks - although staff members are now working to define “play areas” to clarify where that ban would be in place. “We felt that that was something that was very reasonable, and also doable.

Part of that, to me, is that it’s a no-brainer: there are young children at play” in those designated play areas, she said. Kirchner, borough Parks and Recreation Director Carl Saldutti, and council are working to identify those play areas and will present those they’ve identified when the parks committee meets in October, but will tackle that separately from a wider ban on all borough properties.

That second step was brought up at council’s August meeting by councilman Paul Clemente - who was absent from Wednesday night’s meetings - when he suggested that since the borough’s solicitor was preparing a park ban, why not look at writing a wider ban at the same time?

Kirchner told council Wednesday night that after staff discussion and deliberation, “there are no economies of scale” by trying to write both bans at once, but staff members have found new resources and new costs that could help with both steps.