{"id":301922,"date":"2010-02-10T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8866ff9970b"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T15:45:37","slug":"newport-beach-considers-ban-on-leaf-blowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/301922","title":{"rendered":"Newport Beach considers ban on leaf blowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing complaints from residents about noise and allergens, the Newport Beach City Council on Tuesday vowed to keep looking into the feasibility of a citywide ban on leaf blowers in residential areas.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cI am absolutely opposed to leaf blowers,\u201d Corona del Mar resident Hunter Cook said at a council study session on the matter. \u201cThere is so much noise on my street at some times of the day that it makes it almost impossible to live.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The city\u2019s Environmental Quality Affairs Committee took up the leaf blower issue last year after hearing numerous complaints from residents about noisy leaf blowers.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>The committee found that the noise generated by most leaf blowers exceeds the city\u2019s 55- to 60-decibel noise limit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypilot.com\/articles\/2010\/02\/10\/politics\/dpt-leafblowers021010.txt\">Read the full story here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brianna Bailey, from the Daily Pilot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing complaints from residents about noise and allergens, the Newport Beach City Council on Tuesday vowed to keep looking into the feasibility of a citywide ban on leaf blowers in residential areas.\u201cI am absolutely opposed to leaf blowers,\u201d Corona del Mar resident Hunter Cook said at a council study session on the matter. \u201cThere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}