How about a rake and a broom instead of blowing all the frigging dust around and crap into other peoples yards.

Here is what you will get. Gardeners, whose livelihood relies on doing their job fast, will be forced to switch to electric blowers and to charge the batteries they will put a gas generator in the back of their trucks. They will fire up the generator and charge the battery between houses and then use that to blow the leaves. Problem solved... or maybe not...

My compliments to Portola Valley for coming up with a reasonable proposal to rid the town of that county-wide scourge. The use of electric blowers, or better yet no leaf blowers at all, should be the way to go throughout the county (and elsewhere for that matter). Gardeners should be paid more for using the time-consuming but far healthier rake instead.

We have a list of gardeners who will use rake and broom here
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Thank heavens we have the ALPR's to help us identify those dastardly gardeners who ride into town with such evil devices!

The readers have already worked so well, cutting violent crime in PV in half!

Dual purpose ALPR's - now saving on noise, too!