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Noise pollution in some areas of LI is horrible and unhealthy. The Airplane thing is another thread, so I'll skip that part (as bad as it often is).
I think it's a great start to ban the GPL-blowers in Town of Hempstead, for most of the year.
Some of you seem to have it easy -- up in the Huntington area, for ten months of the year, every day except Sunday, it's constant landscaping noise. Sometimes a crew will stay on one block for 2-3 hours, with 3 guys wielding those leaf blowers. All you can do is leave the area. These crews arrive at 7:30 sometimes (defying the 8 a.m. start time in TOH) and go into the evening, till 6:30.
Huntington Calm has tried very hard to get the town board to follow TOH, to no avail. At least up to this date. Besides banning the GPLB's, these companies should be seriously regulated. Some have trucks with no names, you have no idea who they are. They constantly violate the town's accepted arrival and finish times.
There's another group that might help you with this. It's called:
"It's All About ME - A NIMBY's Perspective"
Next meeting is tomorrow night at Rights of No One Church. Bring your own Kleenex.
Actually "it's all about me" applies to the people who hire these landscapers at the expense of the other surrounding neighbors just so their yard can look "good" and so they can feel affluent by having hired help do a job that they should do.
You're probably too dumb to understand the carcinogens emitted by these 2 stroke blowers(something equivalent to 200 Ford f150s each driving a few thousand miles in a matter of a half hour of blowing) plus the mold, heavy metals, and feces kicked up into the air, which can take hours to settle.
People like Jackie are not selfish nimbys for simply wanting clean air and relative quiet on their own property. People who inconvenience and jeopardize the health of the neighborhood due to their vanity and laziness are the selfish ones.
I believe I've read some of your posts in the tax thread...you seem to be low iq and undereducated.
To me the noise that should immediately be considered illegal is any loud noise that is purposely made or easily avoidable coming from machines.
Under this category fall for example those cars with loud exhaust (not sure why some find this exciting).
But also gas powered landscaping tools that could use the same technology as unaltered cars.
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The same people who keep posting in the dorky aircraft noise thread are posting here, pretending they have a right to silence while living in overcrowded suburbia. Utterly shocking.
Some of you seem to have it easy -- up in the Huntington area, for ten months of the year, every day except Sunday, it's constant landscaping noise. Sometimes a crew will stay on one block for 2-3 hours, with 3 guys wielding those leaf blowers.
I'm curious as to what part of Huntington. Are you talking about areas north of 25A where properties tend to be bigger? Because honestly, I have lived in three different areas each within two different Towns so far (Islip and Smithtown) and have never experienced what you describe even though nobody on my block(s) cut their own lawn. Granted, those neighborhoods were all either 1/4, 1/3 or 1/2 acre zoned which meant that the average in/out time per lot is 20 minutes or less. So a crew from "ABC Landscaping" who has, say, 3 customers on the same block would be done with them all in no more than one hour, unless all the properties are oversized. For instance in Dix Hills where it's minimum 1-acre zoning.
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