“I work from home. And now everyone knows how noisy they are”

“I am in total support of a ban”

“I do my own lawn and have battery powered mower, blower, weed eater that are so, so much quieter and cleaner than gas powered.” “The blower is an order of magnitude quieter than a gas blower and works just as well. With the trigger you can go from a whisper to a hurricane of air depending what you need to move. Besides the noise and air pollution improvements, they never need maintenance like my 2 and 4 cycle engines needed on the prior machines.”

“For those of us retired and around home more often than not, the blowers have been a problem for a long time”

“I fondly remember a time when the loudest noise in the city was the rooster the Reynolds' kids brought home from Pershing for the summer”

“This issue comes up repeatedly because it continues to be a problem. It’s not particular to our city. Disruptive noise levels are a problem across the country so we don't have to feel that we are being overly sensitive. Surely we are creative enough to come up with a solution.“

“I would have no problem banning gas-powered leaf blowers”

“Lots of places have banned gas-powered leaf blowers and moved to battery-powered leaf blowers”

“My wonderful yard crew uses an electric blower sparingly and bags the leaves and rakes the small oak branches”

“Now that more people are home perhaps they recognize how intrusive they really are to the quality of our neighborhood”

“Add one more family in favor of regulations”

“As someone who has spent the last twenty plus years walking through this neighborhood and being bombarded with the pollution -- both noise and air of all the gas-powered equipment used, I am definitely on board with doing something to lower the noise and air pollution. Thanks for bringing this issue up again!”

“I work from home all the time, and now everyone realizes how annoying they are”

“But they do go nonstop! I would support a total ban on gas blowers”

“The sound pollution is terrible. I can hear them now”

“The argument that lawn services will abandon the city if we ban gas blowers is wrong. Forward-thinking communities across America are banning gas blowers. Lawn services are businesses, and business like West U. If one service should leave West U, there will be five services ready to replace it.”

“We need to eliminate things that further damage the environment”

“While trying to call my patients today I had multiple leaf blowing events going on, dueling blowers in one yard overall it seemed like blowers were blowing all day It is exhausting to hear this noise. Now that more of the folks who hire these companies are home and enduring the noise, we will see some change.”

“A mounting health concern. A nuisance. A long term issue to solve.”

“On Childress, every Tuesday they wake me up across the street. It is awful, and I don’t know where to call to complain”

“Some level of regulation is necessary and appropriate in society. And this issue concerns not what you do “in your own home” but outside of it, and therefore directly affects your neighbors.”

“Lots of places have banned gas powered leaf blowers and moved to battery-powered leaf blowers.”