Get rid of 'em.

If you have a large yard with trees you wouldnt be upset as much by  them.. Im sure apartment dwellers that dont have the responsibilty of cleaning their own property wouldnt be looking for an easier way to get the job done quickly and efficiently. Thats a no brainer.

Those men have a job to do and to suggest they take 2 hours to do a job that with a blower takes 15 minutes is kind of selfish if you think about it. Why not work with them. If you hear them coming or know its their day to do maintenacne on your apartment complex just close your windows. Simple fix...and keeps everybody happy.

My gripe would be as a home owner and my neighbor uses hired hands to do his yard.. and they blew the leaves and trash onto my property without picking it up..then yes we would and have had words.

Ohhh, don't get me started on gardeners. More specifically, former neighbors' gardeners. When I lived in Oleander the guy who worked for the people next door took FOREVER, as in over two hours to do a 6200 foot lot. Equipment always breaking down, sidewalk riddled with tools. Rude with the blower, especially. All kinds of things got blown under the fence we shared. If you've lived in Westchester or Oleander, you've seen the waterbugs. Yeech. 

I vote yes, ban leaf blowers.

OK vanity the week before Christmas is when we start our big leaf cleanup..I got a rake with your name on it

I have a quarter acre lot and still use a broom and rake for most of the cleanup tasks. My electric lawn mower is the most horsepower I'll throw at leaves, and then only if they're a thin layer (it's a mulching mower, but even it has its limits). It only takes me a couple hours to fill up both green toters with the rake. Usually I run out of space in the toters before I run out of things to rake or energy to do raking. Of course, now that I've had to remove all but one tree due to disease, I won't be raking much in the future until I can afford a few seedings more appropriate to the climate.

I have a 4 horse trailer. 20ft long 6ft high. we fill it twice every christmas vacation and haul it to the dump just from the lawn area. The dirt road side of the property I turn under with a tractor disc.We blow we mulch we rake..we pick it up with tarps.. sorry but to not have a blower to get it out of the cracks and crevices around bushes etc is unthinkable..

Dang Im getting tired just talking about it.

Ban them.  All they do is move pile from one place to another.  They make noise and use hydrocarbons.  Ban them.

how does an electric leaf blower give off hydro carbons?? I had a gas..didnt pack the power an electrc will. If your talking a back pack the article needs to be specific. not all leaf blowers are offensrve and we pickup our piles.

 "how does an electric leaf blower give off hydro carbons??"

Well,

you know...the production of the juice - you gotta turn those generators.

And, I hear that some of them electricity producing operations still use coal as the cheapest source of carbon fuel.

--virgil

dam theres that guilt factor..ok on the count of three..everyone unplug your computers..shut off the lights...and kill that coffee pot...if its gonna effect my leaf blower Im taking ya all down with me... ONE...TWO...THREE..shut er down boys

Why get a leaf blower, when I have a lawn mower.  Ha!  I hate raking leaves.  I am actually pretty lucky, I have one tree, and every year when the wind blows, it sends the leaves somewhere else.  So bad luck for someone, but I end up smelling like a rose on the deal.

Lol Sioux. 

I have a lot of trees and I spend eight weekends a year raking up leaves. I also have a leaf blower, which, if you flip a switch, is a vacuum. I use it on the vacuum setting and put the detritus in the green cans. Imagine that. Oh, and by the way, it's electric and much quieter than the gas powered ones.

My big gripe is the lawn removal specialists in my neighborhood who seem to think they have to start every morning at 6:30. And everybody in my neighborhood (except me) uses somebody to do their lawns, and they're all on different days. Forget sleeping in. It's maddening.

I was a gardener~ in the summer you start early to avoid as much heat as possible. The blower is a two way street~ any bit of Bermuda grass that is blown into a flower bed is your problem latter as it grows.

I found a rake did a better job,less blow off and no matter what you have to pick up what you blow around.Neighbors liked you better for it too.

Every morning at the hospital ,that was how I spent the first hour,raking leaves. Gives you time to plan out your day.

They tried to do this in LA a few years ago.  The ban was actually passed, but then all the gardeners organized and decided not to work for awhile.  Soon the ban was lifted.  As a former "pool man," I saw gardeners all the time and I know how hard gardeners have to work to make a living.  If they are not allowed to use time saving equipment like blowers, then they can't do as many lawns--and there goes their profitability.  So long as they respect the existing noise ordinances, then there should be no problem.  If they don't, then you have the right to complain to the authorities.  For those who work weird shifts, and sleep in the day, I suggest earplugs and a noisemaker.

Every Monday the gardeners show up at our office complex and use those blowers and I HATE them. The blow dust over your car, they blow the leaves under the door into the office. These things are dirty nasty and need to be gone. The gardeners just blow dirt from one place to another. GET RID OF THEM

Sorry to say I get a kick out of this LOL. Ban fire places, ban blowers, ban this, ban that..... Whats next ban the lawn mower???  I'd love to see all the people in the rich areas of town mowing their lawms with a pushmower or even better yet, when those get banned with scissors!!!! lol.

 The way I look at it is simple, if I want a fire in my fireplace I'll have a fire, the heater in my apartment sucks & I get more heat from a fire place than the heater anyway. Yea the landlord has a gardener come out & do the lawn & landscape, he uses (OMG a GAS powered lawn mower & a blower) to do his work, so what, it gets the job done.

When are cars going to get banned from the valley? If the Valley Air Board gets a say it will probably happen. I read somewhere (I think in the AAA Magazine) that you tags on your car are going up so the Valley Air Board can get more money. Since you all live in the Valley your registration will be somewhere in the neighborhood of $18 more on you tags just for the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District. The best part is YOU DIDN'T GET TO VOTE ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!! Your beloved politians did it for you LOL LOL LOL  Keep Banning stuff...... Soon everything you make will go to taxes & this board or that board. Gotta love the Peoples Rebublic of Kalifornistan