Momentum is starting to build, as we continue to garner names of fellow Orindans eager to regain the former quiet of our neighborhoods! Here is a partial list of very informative websites; you’ll glean tons of helpful info about how other communities have dealt with their noise issues.
This is the Link to the final EPA report (2000+ pages long!) on the hazards of Particulate Matter
http://zapla.org/index.html : the best all-around site for information about leaf blower pollution and how to enact laws to ban the use of leaf blowers. Sponsored by Zero Air Pollution Los Angeles, these good folks fought hard and won- in Los Angeles, use of gas-powered leaf blowers is prohibited within 500 feet of a residence.
http://members.cox.net/leafblower/Coronado%20Report.pdf (includes
list of Calif. cities that ban or control leaf blowers)
http://www.ccblincoln.com/CCBL/Towns/PaloAlto.html (Palo Alto
ordinance)
http://cpau.com/depts/pol/news/details.asp?NewsID=671&TargetID=120,94
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14778890
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei15/session5/fitz.pdf
http://www.ibabuzz.com/alamedajournal/2008/09/29/another-no-re-leaf-b…
http://www.lagunajournal.com/no_white_noise_in_laguna.htm
http://members.cox.net/leafblower/ (a site sponsored by leaf blower manufacturer Echo, replete with useful articles intended to support sales of lower-noise leafblowers but still very informative. The site’s author, Larry Will, formerly was a VP at Echo, and now works as a consultant for them and others. His ambition is to “educate” opponents of leaf blower noise and pollution, and to water-down (if not defeat) efforts to ban their use.