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From: Todd Budin To: City Council Subject: Address the heavy polluting and obnoxiously loud lawn equipment Date: Friday, December 9, 2022 12:02:29 PM Dear City Council, I'm writing as a resident to ask you to address lawn equipment air pollution in 2023. As you may know, our region's air quality has been downgraded to 'Severe' by the EPA and every year we have an increasing number of ozone alert days. While there are many contributors to our ozone pollution problem, gas lawn equipment is a disproportionate contributor, producing half the emissions of all cars/trucks in the front -range. The great thing about this problem is that accessible solutions already exist, to the point where some regional landscape companies are specializing in'no emissions' and even our local hardware stores are selling mostly non-polluting lawn equipment (HD is exclusively non- polluting). So let's get something on the 2023 work plan to formalize these positive movements into a multi -year plan to clean up our air. We're not alone as the City of Boulder is currently working through their 22-23 plan to do the same. Additionally, gas leaf blowers completely disturb the peace and quiet that we desire as residents. They operate in the same decibel range as car horns and music concerts, so it's like having a car horn blaring 30-40 minutes at a time, multiple times per day, multiple days per week. Thanks for your consideration, Todd Budin 807 Rock Rose Ct ==CAUTION: EXTERNAL EMAIL== This email originated from outside the City of Louisville's email environment. Do not click links or open attachments unless you validate the sender and know the content is safe. Please contact IT if you believe this email is suspicious.