N2C 2L7

Ignorant neighbours and their "secondhand" smoke can ruin your home and neighbourhood! Sign me up!

Kitchener is NOT a campground !!

This should have been banned long ago! We have been frustrated for several years now! I hope our council finally gets it right!

thanks for setting this up!

I have serious concerns about the pollutants that fires add to the air.

Pioneer Park - Everyone should have the right to enjoy spending time outside any time of the day and breath fresh air.

I am tired of having to close my windows on a beautiful night because my neighbours have smoke coming into my house from their fire pits. I do like having to run my air conditioner on a nice night or that I cannot enjoy my own backyard because of smoke.

N2N 1N8 When I smell the smoky air night after night I can't help but think Kitchener citizens would be a heck of a lot healthier if we lived in Waterloo or Cambridge.

please send this to 5 friends :)

Is Kitchener planning to get more doctors and hospitals for when lots of us start getting real sick from wood campfires in Kitchener backyards?

These wood fires used to be banned. The by-law never worked and will never work. Kitchener residents should not be exposed to smoke pollution.

You'd think this city was the camp of a backwoods trapper many nights when I am attempting to go for a walk that's supposed to be good for me.

Kitchener residents deserve the right to be healthy and to breathe air as clean as the city is able to provide to us.

re: wood burning stove/fire places...please advocate smoke "re-burners" to diminish smoke more!

I agree it would be nice to be able to open our windows on summer evenings instead of the house being filled with wood smoke.

Yes lets follow Waterloo and Cambridge on this issue

I am so glad to have found this petition. This city has an environmental policy and it needs to do much better. Taxpayers should not pay for their questionable decision with their health.

N2M 1K2

It was always a lousy decision to allow smoky firepits in such small yards.

Our neighbours burn wet wood to heat a workshop garage and their houses and they have just put in a firepit. We are being smoked out. We can never enjoy our own yard. We have a greenhouse and it is impossible to even do gardening outside.

Ban the use of back yard, residential fire pits.

N2A 2R8

Why did we not get a say when Kitchener council decided to legalize these campfires in the first place? The smoke problems keep getting worse.

please get these smoky fires out of peoples backyards!

N2M 3Y4
The only way people are going to stop bending firepit regulations is to ban these campfires from backyards and start handing out fines.

N2P 1Z6 I can't wait until the school term is over and I can get away from this disgusting smoky air.

N2N 2T5 Alcohol is often consumed around these campfires and neighbours who have drinking aren't thrilled when you try to talk to them about the smoke and noise.

Lackner I do not consider it a good thing that Kitchener is one of the big holdouts to banning backyard bonfires. At what cost to Public health and air quality?

I have severe asthma & fire smoke is a trigger for an attack.

FIREPITS CAUSE SEVERE BREATHING PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WITH COPD AND RELATED ILLNESSES

Smoky campfire air is disgusting. Why would anyone think that we should be teaching children to have these polluting fires in city backyards? People who like to sit around these wood fires should go to a campground.

Why the 11 pm end time for these campfires? Who is cooking wienies at this hour? Alcohol consumption and excessive noise are often the case.

N2H 2H9 Campfires in backyards should never have been allowed. Cambridge and Waterloo have banned them and Kitchener needs to do the same.

N2E 1A9 Waterloo and Cambridge got it right! Backyard fires are filling the air with wood smoke and they should be banned in this city too. So many kids have asthma.

we don't use air conditioning and like to open our windows. It would be nice to not smell smoke when we do!

smoke smells up the neighborhood. Want a campfire...go camping.

N2N3M3 Why should the residents of Kitchener not expect the cleanest, safest air possible? We should not have to think that we would be healthier if we lived in Waterloo or Cambridge.

These campfires are health hazards and should be banned from Kitchener backyards as such.

All smoke is crappy for people to breathe in. Ban these fires to clear up air around houses.

Doon If I wanted to smell smoke all year, I would go camping. These ridiculous campfires need to banned now.

Global warming and climate change are always in the news. This city needs to start taking public health and air pollution seriously. Wood smoke from backyard campfires is unacceptable.

I would like to see these fires out of Kitchener backyards.