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Applicant Pork Barrel BBQ (SUP 2010-0011) is seeking about $50,000 subsidy from the City for air pollution scrubbers for BBQ equipment to be installed at the site located on Mt. Vernon Ave at Oxford Street which is a residential area. Recent amendments to the application leave the Council in a bind on promoting growth and in addition opening up the city more expeditiously to small businesses. Recent efforts to exclude tobacco smoke have been effective across the State. Smell of food is the next challenge with an objective to curb obesity. There are massive food industry opponents to this policy objective. In the event, the usual reviews have been minimalized. The health department did not comment on the smell emanating from the restaurant. The smell of BBQ is a draw to food when people should not be drawn to food. The issue of childhood obesity was the subject of 4 resolutions in the General Assembly including the Farm to School Week which is to help connect schools to more easily purchase fresh, nutrient-rich farm products; and positively impact the lifelong healthy eating behaviors of Virginia's Children. Another measure encourages local school divisions to promote daily physical activity and reduce childhood obesity. The restaurant is within 2 blocks of the Mt. Vernon Elementary School. The 2010 General Assembly enacted legislation regarding nutritional standards for competitive foods in public schools. The new policy requires the Board of Education to work with the Department of Health to create regulations setting nutritional guidelines for all competitive foods sold to students during regular school hours. I am on a weight reduction diet and walking for exercise regime to lose weight. I frequent Mt Vernon Ave for coffee, for mail, and for non-competitive food at the Del Ray Farmers Market on an average of once per day. The applicant will sell competitive food with the added attribute of heavy food odor. The indoor air issues also need exploration since all three restaurants share common facilities. The sushi fish restaurant will smell like barbecue and the usual individual barrier at a personal level of the nose will be disabled and the final safety gate against overripe fish will be breached. In fast tracking this application, the public health issue of smelly restaurant Pork Barrel BBQslipped by and the regulation fabric of the City is bent out of shape. This issue did not reach the Public Health Advisory Committee and should have.
I have been in communication with the Chair and Vice Chair of the committee and asked for their belated input to this process.
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