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Rye Brook extends Blind Brook Golf Club exemption for gas-powered tow-behind blowers for one year
Summary
The Rye Brook Board of Trustees approved a one-year extension of an exemption to the village's seasonal gas-powered leaf blower ban for Blind Brook Golf Club, citing lack of an electric tow-behind alternative and the club's investment in battery backpack units.
The Rye Brook Board of Trustees voted Jan. 28 to grant a one-year extension to the Blind Brook Golf Club’s exemption from the village’s seasonal gas-powered leaf blower ban, maintaining the prior conditions and setting the new expiration date at Oct. 1, 2025.
Michael Ford, golf course superintendent at the Blind Brook Club, told trustees the club complied with the Village’s seasonal ban on handheld gas blowers by switching to battery-powered backpack blowers for small surfaces (tees, greens and approaches) but said no manufacturer currently makes a compatible electric tow-behind blower for the…
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