COUNCIL SEEKS AID FOR GARDENERS AS BLOWER BAN NEARS.Byline: Rick Orlov Daily News Staff Writer With a ban on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers A leaf blower is gardening tool that propels air out of a nozzle to move yard debris such as leaves. Leaf blowers are usually powered by two-stroke engine or an electric motor, but four-stroke engines were recently introduced to partially address air pollution concerns. near residential areas to take effect Tuesday, a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. city panel moved Friday to provide some help to the city's 2,000 gardeners. Under a proposal going to the City Council, the Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee urged the ban exempt gas-powered leaf vacuums - even if they are at the same 65-decibel level. ``The concern with the leaf blowers was the spread of particulates,'' said Councilman Marvin Braude Marvin Braude (August 11, 1920—December 7, 2005)served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 11th district from 1965 to 1997. At various times Mr. Braude (pronounced BROW-dee) served as chair of the Finance and Revenue Committee, the Environmental Quality and Waste , who authored the ban on the blowers. ``There isn't the same problem with vacuums. They clean up the particulates.'' A related portion of the measure, which would change the tax category of gardeners and put them in a lower bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. , was referred to the council's Budget and Finance Committee. City officials estimated the change could result in the loss of $400,000 a year. |
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