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[quote=Anonymous]DP.
I have worked from home for a year and the leaf blower issue is very aggravating and disruptive. (and leafblowers are harmful to the environment on other levels). 
You can hear a leaf blower a few houses away, and they often blow leaves for 45+ minutes because they do the front/back, driveway, then they go on to blow away leaves in the street front of the house (which I think is pointless). So on any given day (esp. in the fall, you'll have nearly and hour or so disrupted and making it hard to concentrate/work. Even earplugs don't work all that well for this noise.
Here's the thing, though. I think there are already some regulations in my part of MoCo that specify that leaf blowers have to be lower than a certain # of decibels. But the yardwork companies may not be following suit. Many homeowners are absent during the day and, naturally, don't take it upon themselves to check what decibel-level leaf-blowers their yardwork company is using. 
So, my only course of action is really the unappealing option of approaching my neighbor's landscaping crew and asking to inspect the leafblower model they are using and checking myself if that is below a certain decibel threshold. And then going back to the landscaper and saying, "you are in violation of the noise ordinance xyz."  And then doing it at each neighbor's house. Naturally, I am not inclined to take this route.

But I would appreciate it if more homeowners realized how loud their own landscaping/leaf-blowing service was. Then if momentum grew to have some ordinance passed or enforced, they would be on board, and perhaps ask their service to comply.  That said, I haven't heard it as much this spring. Fall is terrible. [/quote]

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