Talk of a ban on the whirring, whining gizmos in Sebastapol and Orinda is still in the formative stages, but public interest in the issue prompted the town of San Anselmo to publicly re-state its stance recently in the Marin Independent Journal.
If you're curious, San Anselmo restricts operation to 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays for periods not to exceed 30 minutes at a time per property.
The ordinance applies to property owners, their employees, tenants and landscape contractors.
Anti-noise activists are forming in Lamorinda and other parts of the Bay Area to further increase limitations on the needlessly noisy machines. Concerns about the noise generated by transient bands of gardeners who saturate neighborhoods and use a variety of gas-powered implements sometimes hours on end has spurred calls for a return to rakes and brooms and the dismissal of gardening crews who refuse to comply.
6 comments:
They should be banned outright. Homeowners should provide their gardeners with rakes. The noise seems to go up every day
They should be banned outright and the gardeners should use rakes and brooms - just as effective. This should just be common sense but there isn't much of that around any more.
I've replaced my drip irrigation three times because of aggressive mow and blowers. I'd be for this...
Marilyn Chan
Ban them. They are useless anyway.
In 1988, the city of Menlo Park banned them all day on Sundays and holidays and on Saturdays they are permitted only between 11am and 4pm. Not sure about other days of the week. In the city of Los Angeles, gas-powered leaf blowers were banned over 10 years ago, but more for the pollution than the noise.
Orinda residents reading this...if you employ a mow & blow team please consider the noise and pollution implications of their leaf blowers on YOUR neighbors!!! I cannot even be on my property when my neighbors leaf blowers are roaring around us. It's obnoxious and unethical to force these on your fellow neighbors. For goodness sake BAN these things!
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