Comments on: Taming the Valley air: TC Voices launches 2025 forum series with focus on air quality https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2024/12/20/taming-the-valley-air-tc-voices-launches-2025-forum-series-with-focus-on-air-quality/ In-depth, locally-produced coverage of the Central Valley. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:43:55 -0700 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dave MA https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2024/12/20/taming-the-valley-air-tc-voices-launches-2025-forum-series-with-focus-on-air-quality/#comment-144524 Dave MA Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:08:00 +0000 https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/?p=49952#comment-144524 How about this? Stop driving! All you want to do is ban what you object to. Nimby at it's worst! We are either a free nation or we are not! Do you really want the government to have that much power? How about this? Stop driving! All you want to do is ban what you object to. Nimby at it’s worst! We are either a free nation or we are not! Do you really want the government to have that much power?

]]> By: From Visalia with Love https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/2024/12/20/taming-the-valley-air-tc-voices-launches-2025-forum-series-with-focus-on-air-quality/#comment-144495 From Visalia with Love Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:28:24 +0000 https://www.ourvalleyvoice.com/?p=49952#comment-144495 This sounds like a great conversation, but it's puzzling that these discussions still happen and very little action results from talks. Wouldn't it be great if the City of Visalia would *finally* take some action and ban the gas-powered leaf blowers and other lawn equipment that pollute the air and cause noise pollution day in and day out in our neighborhoods? On a recently drizzly day, a neighbor's landscaper was using a blower. For what? Did he find one dry leaf that he could blow across the street so that the gardener there can blow it somewhere else the next day? If it weren't so maddening, it might be comical. The noise pollution interrupts my workday ... and has awakened me when I've had a rare opportunity to sleep until 7am. I can often smell the two-stroke gasoline engine fumes seeping through windows. Air dry clothes on the backyard? Not a chance on most days. The air also pollution interrupts being able to regularly exercise outside or just enjoy sitting outside. Recently, teacher friends have told me about days when they kept kids in the classroom during recess because of bad air quality days. It's absolutely bonkers that gas-powered equipment is still allowed in this area. Seriously, does the city favor gardening services over the health and livelihood of its citizens? All signs currently point to “Yes!” This sounds like a great conversation, but it’s puzzling that these discussions still happen and very little action results from talks. Wouldn’t it be great if the City of Visalia would *finally* take some action and ban the gas-powered leaf blowers and other lawn equipment that pollute the air and cause noise pollution day in and day out in our neighborhoods?

On a recently drizzly day, a neighbor’s landscaper was using a blower. For what? Did he find one dry leaf that he could blow across the street so that the gardener there can blow it somewhere else the next day? If it weren’t so maddening, it might be comical.

The noise pollution interrupts my workday … and has awakened me when I’ve had a rare opportunity to sleep until 7am. I can often smell the two-stroke gasoline engine fumes seeping through windows. Air dry clothes on the backyard? Not a chance on most days.

The air also pollution interrupts being able to regularly exercise outside or just enjoy sitting outside. Recently, teacher friends have told me about days when they kept kids in the classroom during recess because of bad air quality days. It’s absolutely bonkers that gas-powered equipment is still allowed in this area. Seriously, does the city favor gardening services over the health and livelihood of its citizens? All signs currently point to “Yes!”

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