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Town council liaison urges education-first approach on gas-powered leaf blower ordinance
Summary
A Town Council member told the Town Conservation Commission that the council's bylaws-and-ordinances committee is drafting a possible restriction on gas-powered leaf blowers and asked the commission to help with outreach and nonpunitive implementation rather than enforcement.
Jen Zonis, a Democratic Town Council member and chair of the Town Council's Conservation Committee, told the Town Conservation Commission on Sept. 11 that the council's bylaws-and-ordinances committee is working on an early draft of a regulation addressing gas-powered leaf blowers and asked the commission to participate in education and implementation planning.
Zonis said the committee is taking public input and stakeholder feedback and is not presenting a finished proposal. "Instead of having just a hasty, you know, ram something through that didn't have a lot of thought to it, [we wanted to] take the time and to get input from the townspeople, but also from entities that are stakeholders in all of this," she said. She asked the conservation commission to consider a role in promotion, outreach and a nonpunitive first-response to…
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