Vape shops should be unwelcome Downtown and near schools, commission recommends
“Every time I see a bus unload, I see children going to the public schools around the corner, and they flow into these stores like they’re candy shops,” said Harris Jones, the co-owner of a building across the street from a vape shop. “It makes you cry as a parent and as a Downtown resident.”
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