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Trustees approve one-year exemption for 1100 King Street leaf-blower ban with conditions
Summary
The board granted a one-year exemption to the village’s seasonal gas-powered leaf blower ban for 1100 King Street, requiring half-throttle use for gas equipment and weather-permitting battery blowers near buildings through Oct. 1, 2025.
The Rye Brook Board of Trustees on Feb. 11 approved, with conditions, a one-year exemption for 1100 King Street from a local law that bans gas-powered leaf blowers during the seasonal period.
Why it matters: The village’s local law (chapter 158, section 2.1 of the village code) enacted April 11, 2023, prohibits gas-powered leaf blowers from May 1 through Sept. 30; the law allows properties of at least five acres to seek a full or partial exemption. The board’s action balances the law’s noise- and emissions-reduction goals…
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