Leaf Blower Controversy
Attached below is a white paper on the issue by Jamie Banks head of QCPD national affiliate Quiet Communities www.
Leaf blower controversy. A study conducted out of Harvard University identified that the low frequencies of the leaf blower engine caused the sound to travel further. The usually quiet city of Winter Park is dealing with a loud controversy. The leaf blower controversy is very complex.
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The leaf blower that handy little machine that huffs and puffs and blows your driveway down is creating a whirlwind of controversy in California. There are a lot of good reasons to hate leaf-blowers not the least of which is the ignorance and carelessness of the carbon-based life-form at the switch. The usually quiet city of Winter Park is dealing with a loud controversy.
I never in my wildest dreams thought this leaf blower issue would have been so controversial said Nancy Adams 59 the deputy mayor of Maplewood and a driving force behind the new rule. Ive watched in dumbfounded awe as a gardener tries to move a handful of wet leaves down a 50 ft. They are TOO LOUD.
Elon Musk Announces a Leaf Blower Controversy Ensues CNET. Landscapers in Summit and other North Jersey towns argue that proposed leaf-blower bans will hurt their small business. Elon Musk says Tesla will make a leaf blower for some reason Reddit.
In fact among the myriad reasons the leaf blower controversy has continued this long perhaps the most salient is the idea that neither side could stand the thought of the other prevailing. Donna Perlmutter letter says that if controversy over leaf blowers in Los Angeles is a case of class warfare it is one created by manufacturers of these noisy polluting machines S. Back in the fall of 2015 in the midst of travels around the country in which my wife Deb and I saw countless examples of citizens.