Irvine leaders plan to revise the city’s noise code to ban gas-powered gardening equipment, voting unanimously on June 13 to move forward with the change.
The issue was brought forward by Councilwoman Kathleen Treseder, due to resident complaints.
“Especially during the pandemic, I think a lot of us experienced the noise from gas-powered leaf blowers. It can be very, very loud, difficult to hear you speak,” she said during the meeting.
City staff was directed to come up with a plan, within 30 days, on how to alter the city’s code to ban gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers—regardless of noise-reducing modifications—and to create a penalty for offenders and determine how such an ordinance would be enforced and present the information at a future meeting….