On Burlington's Church Street, smoking has been off limits for more than a year. Now smokers are lighting up on side streets, raising concerns for area businesses.“On any given day, there's anywhere from five to 100 cigarette butts I clean up,” Champlain Leather store manager Nancy Kirby said.Watch this storyOutside the Cherry Street store, Kirby sees smokers a lot. There’s even a sign in the front window asking people to step away from the store.“It is my property and I'm trying to run a business. And some folks are nice about moving on and other folks are outright belligerent and somewhat threatening,” Kirby said.In December 2014, Burlington passed a smoking ban on Church Street, barring the use of all lighted tobacco products and substitutes, like e-cigarettes.Since then, smokers have been slipping onto side streets to light up.“It's happening in very specific areas on the side streets of Church Street. Primarily on Cherry Street and Bank Street,” Church Street Marketplace Director Ron Redmond said.Redmond said several businesses have complained and his office is listening. He said the signs on streets and trashcans aren’t really being seen, so the Marketplace is working on a new way to send the message home.“We're going to have stencils, sidewalk stencils in the areas where you can't smoke," Redmond said.Redmond said those new signs should be up between 15 to 30 days. Meanwhile, Kirby said it’s a step in the right direction but it doesn’t solve her problem because smoking is allowed outside her store."I guess we've got to give them a place to go if they want to smoke. And I don't want it to be my front steps and I certainly wouldn’t want it to be my neighbors’ front steps,” Kirby said.

On Burlington's Church Street, smoking has been off limits for more than a year. Now smokers are lighting up on side streets, raising concerns for area businesses.

“On any given day, there's anywhere from five to 100 cigarette butts I clean up,” Champlain Leather store manager Nancy Kirby said.

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Outside the Cherry Street store, Kirby sees smokers a lot. There’s even a sign in the front window asking people to step away from the store.

“It is my property and I'm trying to run a business. And some folks are nice about moving on and other folks are outright belligerent and somewhat threatening,” Kirby said.

In December 2014, Burlington passed a smoking ban on Church Street, barring the use of all lighted tobacco products and substitutes, like e-cigarettes.

Since then, smokers have been slipping onto side streets to light up.

“It's happening in very specific areas on the side streets of Church Street. Primarily on Cherry Street and Bank Street,” Church Street Marketplace Director Ron Redmond said.

Redmond said several businesses have complained and his office is listening. He said the signs on streets and trashcans aren’t really being seen, so the Marketplace is working on a new way to send the message home.

“We're going to have stencils, sidewalk stencils in the areas where you can't smoke," Redmond said.

Redmond said those new signs should be up between 15 to 30 days. Meanwhile, Kirby said it’s a step in the right direction but it doesn’t solve her problem because smoking is allowed outside her store.

"I guess we've got to give them a place to go if they want to smoke. And I don't want it to be my front steps and I certainly wouldn’t want it to be my neighbors’ front steps,” Kirby said.