SAN DIEGO – The San Diego City Council has its eye on banning plastic bags, but a new poll shows the majority of city residents are against such a move, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

This week, the Rules and Economic Development Committee requested city staff for a proposed ordinance that would forbid single use plastic bags within city limits. A vote by the committee, headed by Council President Pro Tem Sherri Ligthner, will be held October 23. Approval by the committee will forward the bill to the entire council.

While San Diego is following the lead of close to 80 other California cities in proposing such a ban, a poll by the newspaper and Channel 10 News found that 54% of resident surveyed disagree with banning single use plastic bags.

The ordinance proposed by Ligthner would forbid all single-use plastic bags at retailers, plus tack on a dime for paper bag usage. Exemptions include newspaper delivery bags, restaurants, dry cleaning, and produce, meat and poultry bags. Drug stores and supermarkets would be given six months to comply, with nonprofit vendors and other retailers having 12 months to stop handing out plastic bags.

Los Angeles passed a ban on plastic bags in June, while the California Senate shot down a statewide ban earlier this summer. Meanwhile, retailers are fighting a similar ban in Ontario.