Bay Area cities prepare to
restrict gas leaf blowers.
A statewide ban could be next
San Francisco Chronicle,
by
Steve Rubenstein
Original Article
Posted By: konocti95,
6/30/2021 12:09:07 PM
Two more Bay Area cities took sides in the region’s long-running crusade against gasoline-powered leaf blowers in recent weeks, with officials in Novato and Hayward moving toward banning the contraptions, increasingly derided as noise, smoke-belching nuisances.
Oakland, too, has vowed to get serious about enforcing its rules against their use.
And the entire war may swiftly come to a head if a state Assembly bill seeking to ban new leaf blower sales statewide wins approval.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/30/2021 12:12:37 PM (No. 831479)
Cool!! I’d love to see the rich punks rake the leaves and bag them in summer
15 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
jj1319 6/30/2021 12:15:31 PM (No. 831483)
Movie production companies will love this. As it stands, the pests have to be bought off.
3 people like this.
California needs to fall into the ocean, or secede from America. It has nothing in common with flyover country.
9 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/30/2021 12:19:36 PM (No. 831488)
FTA:Some have suggested that leaf blower operators need to show more courtesy, shutting off the blower when people are walking by.
Yeah - that would really work. Most leaf blower operators are focused on their job. They would never finish their work if they had to look around and turn the machine on and off multiple times.
10 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 6/30/2021 12:19:39 PM (No. 831489)
Everything would be OK in Commiefornia if they could just fix the leaf blower crisis.
13 people like this.
Crime is skyrocketing, homelessness is through the roof, they're going bankrupt, and people are defecating on the streets. So your focus is on leaf blowers?
28 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/30/2021 12:23:05 PM (No. 831493)
I don’t know how it is in CA, but around here most of the people using leaf blowers are Mexicans who work for lawn services. Isn’t this going to be detrimental to POCs? How racist of CA.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SALady 6/30/2021 12:32:56 PM (No. 831502)
Lets see: gangs, drugs, crime, poverty, fatherless households, terrible schools with super high dropout rates, etc, etc, etc -- but Oakland is going to ignore all of that to deal with the "horrendous problem" of gas powered leaf blowers?!?!?!?!?
I remember when the lie-beral Utopia of New Orleans decided to ignore their problems of gangs, drugs, crime, poverty, fatherless households, terrible schools with super high dropout rates, etc, etc, etc, and spend millions of tax dollars to remove statues. When the statues were gone, they were just left with even worse gangs, drugs, crime, poverty, fatherless households, terrible schools with super high dropout rates, etc, etc, etc.
16 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/30/2021 12:36:11 PM (No. 831504)
Americans should be able to run whatever machine they like as long as it doesn't annoy or harm neighbors. The leaf blower, however, is one of the dumbest things ever invented and people who use them are of questionable sanity. In my rural neighborhood, people will spend an hour or two getting every leaf out of the yard only to have the wind return most of them almost immediately. Since the operator must wear ear covering to run the darn thing that should be a clue that it bothers neighbors.
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Historybuff 6/30/2021 12:36:42 PM (No. 831506)
Racist! Those undocumented gardeners can't afford the electric ones.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/30/2021 12:40:12 PM (No. 831521)
They could require mufflers on the blowers. They put them on gasoline powered lawn mowers. They require them on vehicles. While making that change, also require a on/off switch on electronic beepers. It makes sense for them on industrial equipment in many instances, but when they are building a new building next door and the machinery has to move forward and back 10 feet a thousand times an hour, we get that the machine is there, and suggest it is safe to turn the beeper off.
3 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 6/30/2021 12:49:14 PM (No. 831537)
So they can't just regulate the emissions and noise?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 6/30/2021 1:11:31 PM (No. 831564)
California, land of the slaves.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Grounded 6/30/2021 1:29:30 PM (No. 831583)
I saw no mention of gasoline powered string trimmers. If pollution and noise abatement is the rationale for banning the leaf blowers, would it not follow that the string trimmers are just as bothersome?
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sully 6/30/2021 1:32:37 PM (No. 831585)
Good. I hate those things. I hate the noise the make and I hate the landscapers that park their circus rigs right across from my drive way so I have to make a 9 point turn to exit my garage.
If I were king I'd ban landscapers. Sorry.
You should be mulching your stoopid leaves.
grrr
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
marbles 6/30/2021 1:39:43 PM (No. 831591)
# 1 They don't . They hire people to do it.
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Naturally, Oakland and these other cities will be Edens after the blower ban.
Except for the usual murders, drug use & dealing, illegitimacy, property crime, etc.
But yes - make sure the leaf blowers are targeted.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/30/2021 1:44:10 PM (No. 831596)
#15 - I'm going to make a wild guess here - have you ever had to rake a really big yard?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/30/2021 1:45:14 PM (No. 831598)
Just use Roundup.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/30/2021 3:22:22 PM (No. 831693)
They are certainly annoying. My neighbor uses a landscape guy who has one that must be completely unmuffled. It sounds like a B-17 at full take-off power and I have to go inside when he is using it. That said, I find it silly that SF is worried about this since it's become a crime-ridden failed city.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
franq 6/30/2021 4:13:13 PM (No. 831717)
"...smoke-belching..."???? C'mon man.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
AltaD 6/30/2021 4:36:27 PM (No. 831729)
I've wanted this city to ban leaf blowers for years! They are insanely loud (especially in condo echo-canyons) and there's no need to use them in an urban area. Use a broom to clear the sidewalk of the handful of leaves and twigs.
On a positive note, whenever I walk past someone who is using a leaf blower in the neighborhood, they always shut the blower off until pedestrians pass.
0 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/30/2021 5:30:23 PM (No. 831754)
This has been around for a long time.
I can remember Rush Limbaugh, 30 years ago, making fun of the problem by offering a tape recording of a leaf blower to mess with California laws dealing with noise levels of leaf blowers..
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/30/2021 6:17:08 PM (No. 831791)
#19, For fallen leaves?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/30/2021 7:30:43 PM (No. 831850)
No problem, mine runs on a 40 Volt Battery...
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Leaf blowers are the least of your problem.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 7/1/2021 9:38:31 AM (No. 832359)
How about banning those obnoxious car audio systems that make everything vibrate instead
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/18/2021 8:50:56 AM (No. 849459)
I predict a run on leaf blowers
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