At the 13 November 2024 Newtown Township Board of Supervisors (BOS) public meeting, Friends Village residents Tom Cadwallader and Kip Cherry as well as Terry Christiansen requested that the township pass an ordinance to ban gas-powered leaf blowers.
"This would cut down on exhaust and noise and be safer for workers. The noise and the pollution are major, major problems,” said Cadwallader, president of the Residence Association at Friends Village.
“We’ve been cursed with a lot of leaf-blowing activity at our village and it has really brought it to our attention - the fact that these leaf blowers that use gasoline are creating a lot of noxious fumes, a lot of noise, are very hard on the workers and are more expensive to use than the electric and battery-operated leaf blowers," said Cherry, vice president of the association.
Mr. Christian noted how the noise of gas leaf blowers were a danger to seeing impaired pedestrians who use hearing to avoid cars when crossing road.
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As of the publication date, there has been no action on this by the BOS nor has any such ban - even limited to township property - been put forward for consideration by the BOS.
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