| Comment | Dear California Air Resources Board,
Gas blowers and other gas-operated landscape maintenance equipment
should be banned as soon as possible. They create noise as well as
air impacts that affect the equipment handlers as well. These
machines do not clean, they only move dirt and leaves to
neighboring areas.
The generous timeline to eliminate gas-operated equipment could be
used to train all the well-meaning maintenance personnel and their
employers in healthier maintenance techniques. Many of the people
unhappy about the ban cannot imagine another way to accomplish
their work.
Perhaps training is a positive step the State of California can
help implement. The person that helps me with my office and home
landscape maintenance received free bi-lingual water-efficient
landscape maintenance training sponsored by the City of Santa
Barbara and City College many years ago. This resulted in greater
pride in his work, along with saving water.
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