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Smokeless in Seattle: There’s a new proposal to ban smoking in all public parks in Seattle and you’ll have your chance to voice your opinion on the issue tonight at a public hearing. According to King 5 News, the proposal expands a 2010 rule that banned “smoking, chewing, or other tobacco use…within 25 feet of other park patrons and in play areas, beaches, or playgrounds.” Show your support or express your concerns regarding the park-smoking ban tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Kenneth R. Bounds Board Room at Seattle Parks and Recreation Headquarters, 100 Dexter Avenue North.

As rents skyrocket, millennials are scooping up homes in droves. Puget Sound Business Journal staff writer Rachel Lerman (also a member of the aforementioned generation) says “the single biggest thing that convinced me it was the right time to buy was the jump in rent prices. The rent on my one-bedroom apartment in Fremont went up nearly 9 percent in the last month, and that’s happening across the city.” As a fellow millennial who bought a home two years ago after learning my rent was scheduled to increase, I can attest to this theory. Read the rest of Lerman’s home-buying piece here.

On Monday, we released our list of the 10 Best New Restaurants in and around Seattle. Have you eaten your way through it yet? You should. We encountered a wealth of barbecue, green juices and kale, mammoth sandwiches, wood smoke and Middle Eastern spices. And now, more than ever, we found that the buzziest restaurants do double duty as some of the city’s finest cocktail bars. Check out the story if you haven’t already and get to making some reservations!

First Hill Streetcar news: The Capitol Hill Seattle blog reports that sponsors are “lining up” to slap their ads all over the new First Hill transit system, which should begin running later this year. Look for the advertisements to “pepper the station shelters, trolley interiors, and completely cover some streetcars running the 2.5 mile route through Pioneer Square, the International District, First Hill, and Capitol Hill.” CHS has the full details here.