Dude loves his yard, I get it, but he is out there for at least 30 minutes every single day with his gas blower. Usually over dinner time when we are eating outside on nice days.
Wonder if getting neighbors to subsidize quieter tech is a viable approach. Nobody cares about their own noise but everyone cares a lot about the neighbor.
Not excessive in terms of monetary cost for both private individuals and businesses, but does actually solve the problem, and much more disruptive in terms of hassle caused.
Downside is logistics on the police end: they actually do need to take those things with them, which is a bit of a hassle, and then do something with them (e.g. send it to a recycling company or whatnot).
That is not how private property works...
> Further regulations would limit the use of [gas] equipment during the summer ozone season. Starting in 2025, public entities, like schools and cities, would be banned from running equipment from June through August. Commercial landscaping businesses would face the same restrictions in 2026.
I'd vote to apply that to residences as well, but you have to start somewhere.
[1] https://www.cpr.org/2023/07/07/denver-gas-lawn-equipment-ban...
My neighbor has a family member come and do their lawn (I offered my guys to them for free, and they turned it down). So every Wednesday or Thursday, for nearly 4 hours, there are various 2-stroke engines going on. It is a HUGE noise, and my home office faces their house so for most of the day I'm having to ask people to repeat themselves because I cannot hear them over the sound of the neighbor's lawn equipment.
I pay $35 per week and it's done in ~10 minutes.
Subsidized tazers?
Must be the new electric gavel.
Heard it's 40db quieter.