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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-08-17 21:45.See www.zapla.org for the Los Angeles, California experience in banning gas blowers in 1997 and what we learned. The same erroneous arguments are still being made. See www.quietorinda.com for an upcoming effort to ban all blowers; and http://www.tv1.com/vlogs/167/posts/246 for several short educational videos, including one re cardiovascular problems from small Particulate Matter. ALL blowers blow up air pollution that can drift for 3 days, unseen but inhaled by all. Your legislation should cover them all and future inventions or fuels; see various ordinance examples http://www.zapla.org/overview/blowerdef.html. HOW does your parks staff KNOW it will "be too expensive"? Have they done a fair, unbiased timed comparison between blowers and rakes/brooms. Not guesses like this: http://www.zapla.org/present/letters/whittierzap.html, but like http://www.zapla.org/present/dwptest.html and the video Rake vs Leaf Blower at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXI681M2hDE . L.A. and other towns have not had large increases after blower legislation was passed...only misleading, unsubstantiated "claims" from opponents to proposed legislation.