From: kimberlee keller <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2026 5:14 PM
To: City Council <[email protected]>
Subject: Smoke in My Neighborhood--A&M BBQ
Dear Mayor McLewis and City Council,
I am writing to request that you enforce the April 8th, 2026 cease and desist order issued to A&M BBQ immediately by requiring them to remove the remaining non-compliant commercial smoker.
I spoke at the recent City Council meeting about this and informed you that the smoke from A&M wakes me up in the morning if I leave my window open and that when I go to job in the morning I have to take a route out of my way to avoid the smoke when the smoker is or has recently been operating. I can often smell the smoke in my neighborhood and wonder what I am breathing in. As one of my neighbors, a retired Ph.D toxicologist offered at the City Council meeting, there is no safe level of exposure to PM2.5 particulate.
Even with only one commercial smoker operating, for the past two weeks PurpleAir data has shown that our neighborhood experiences PM2.5 spikes of 25-75 overnight. You can view this data yourself at https://map.purpleair.com/(view the air monitor near the hospital).
My neighbors and I spoke with the City Inspector after the meeting and he informed us that he really hated to shut down the business because of lost revenue to the City. I can appreciate this problem, but we've been dealing with the smoke for quite some time now and our health is more important. My understanding is that the A7M owner has been given three more months to relocate the industrial smoker.
Please request that the Building Department enforce the cease and desist now.
Sincerely,
Kimberlee Keller
477 Eleanor Ave
Sebastopol, CA 95472
[Your address]