Comment on I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.
sparkle@lemm.ee 5 months agoI know everyone hates HOAs because they’re usually petty and dumb, but this is where I think they’d actually be helpful. Designate certain neighborhoods as “quiet zones” where similarly obnoxious activities (that have reasonable, quiet alternatives) are banned: no motorized leaf blowers, lawn mowers, souped-up motorcycles or muscle cars.
Or… hear me out… we can have laws (which mostly already exist for this) and cops that actually enforce this stuff (and by “enforce” I don’t mean shoot somebody after arriving on-scene)
fireweed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That would be great IF you could convince the city that thoroughly-entrenched tools like leaf blowers and lawn mowers and motorized vehicles fell under nuisance laws. Chances are the mayor and most of city council use these things (or pay someone who uses them). The problem is that most people either love these things or don’t find them obnoxious enough to warrant action. Even if you somehow could get them to fall under nuisance laws, enforcement would be complaint-based, and who’s going to risk pissing off their neighbor for being a snitch Karen?