Dallas City Council committee members appear ready to move forward with a gradual ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in the city.
The blowers have been criticized for pollution and noise, but landscapers say they are much more powerful than electric and battery-powered blowers. Even so, the chair of the environmental committee indicated that Dallas needs to step up and be a leader in the region to make the switch. "We are a big city in a big region. Maybe, discuss as a region how we can be a leader and get neighbors to join us," said Dallas City Councilwoman Paula Blackmon.
The city's staff in a pilot program indicated that the electric leaf blowers were not sufficient for an area like White Rock Lake. However, the city says it has used electric blowers for three years in downtown successfully.
How will they blow the volumes of trash from homeless camps? Why is the City Council so utterly useless with issues that matter? How many ran on “ending the homeless problem” and it’s worse than ever? .Jayniefordallas .GayDWillis13 .AdamMcGoughD10 .ridleyfordallas
As long as people use them at reasonable hours it's fine
This is going to go just as great as the plastic bags ban.
Ok, so they're gonna try do what Toronto just failed miserably at doing. Because they realized that trying to please the small handful of psychotic Karens that want this ISNT WORTH IT!
Good grief, too much California policy influence…those developments aren’t working well for Californians either.
A great example of government sticking it's nose into something it has no business being involved. Yeah, they can be loud but they're shut off after a few minutes.