The Vancouver Park Board has put a pin in the controversial proposal to restrict balloons from city parks.
Children鈥檚 performers, including clowns, showed up at the meeting on Monday night to protest the motion commissioner Stuart Mackinnon put forward .
Board defeats motion to ban use/ display of non-renewable balloons in parks, community centres & other PB facilities
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Mackinnon had said latex and plastic balloons put a burden on Vancouver鈥檚 landfills and beaches, and posed a risk to 鈥渘aturally curious animals鈥� and children who might accidentally consume the products.
The commissioners voted 5-2 against the proposed ban. An amendment, which would only ban helium balloons, failed 4-3.
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