Stop the Bayview Mills Leaf-Blowers
BAYVIEW MILLS
PETITION TO LIMIT THE USE OF LEAF-BLOWERS
Dear Residents,
We, the tenants of Bayview Mills, have grown tired of the constant disturbance of peace caused by the leaf-blowers. The practice of using these machines multiple times a week to move dust is ineffective, wasteful, and not their intended purpose.
We have seen the workers repeatedly use the leaf-blowers to blow dust off the streets and driveways…only to settle back down again. If leaves and debris need to be moved from a particularly dusty spot, then they should be raked.
We demand that the use of leaf-blowers be limited to a bi-annual leaf cleanup in early Spring and Fall for these important reasons:
- The “expert gardeners” spend too many of their working hours blowing dust around the complex rather than performing more important garden work. (ex. turning soil, seeding lawns, etc). This spring the lawns have not been soiled or seeded at all.
- The constant burning of fuel due to running the leaf-blowers is a waste of our money, it pollutes our air with noxious fumes, and causes tremendous noise pollution, which in turn disturbs the peace.
- The practice of using these machines to clean dust off the streets is completely ineffective. The dust is lifted into the air only to settle back down again on our cars, in our homes, and in our children’s lungs. We are then forced to spend more time and money cleaning our cars and homes.
- The outdoors will naturally always contain dust no matter how much fuel you burn trying to blow it around, leave the dust where it is and the rain will clean it away.
Once we receive your support, we will present this petition to the Board of Directors.
Supporting articles:
http://www.greenwichcalm.org/apps/blog/entries/sho...
http://www.alternet.org/modern-pestilence-leaf-blo...
https://news.fitzrovia.org.uk/2011/06/17/leaf-blow...
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