leaf blowers
Topic
54 mentions
· in our records since Oct 29, 2025
Related
Earth Day
David Lowell
Ned Rust
Ed Riely
Morningside Drive
Maria Slippen
Bryan Healy
Tom Smith
Garden Club
110 Truesdale Drive
Brian Pugh
Eva Thaddeus
Gwen Cianfaglione
Michael Ribosh
Ann Gallelli
Appearances (34 most notable of 54)
_Editor’s note: This article previews a scheduled meeting based on the published agenda. After the meeting is held and video is released, coverage will be updated with the actual discussion and any votes taken._
The Conservation Advisory Council is …
Public comment returned to familiar debates. Gwen Cianfaglione of Mountain Trail welcomed the Quaker Bridge work but pressed the board to make the dog park more welcoming to non-residents: "A lot of people, some new to Croton, some not so new to Crot…
My my second consecutive appearance. I wrote a letter about ye old leaf blowers to the editor at the Gazette last week, which, while a marvel of logic and and generally excellent craftsmanship, I'm not gonna recite here. But I do encourage you to rea…
Hi. Dave Farrington Road. First good news is DPW chooses less pollution for Croton. All of our lungs, especially our kids' lungs. Thank you. Now let's have some fun, a little thought experiment. How many gas leaf blowers do you think are working in a…
I'll call them what they are, delay tactics. For example, why are you asking cost for landscapers versus quality of life? The landscaping industry's profit margin is not more important than our kids' health, our health, our right to cancer free air, …
I don't hear the leaf blowers right now because my windows are closed, But they are and I know that there has been enforcement, but there still are I'm witnessing with my own eyeballs on your street, gas leaf blowers. So, it's going on, but I do thin…
gas powered leaf blowers. Right? I think that there was I saw the mayor's
2. Memo from the Village Manager summarizing the Village Board's
requests for the Conservation Advisory Council on the topic of gas-
powered leaf blowers.
https://play.champds.com/ATT/crotononhudsonny/2026-
…
RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY EMAIL: None
5. PUBLIC COMMENTS ON AGENDA ITEMS:
E-mail from Michael Ribosh, 13 Wood Road, Croton on Hudson, stating that
he opposes a year-round ban on gas powered leaf blowers. To view Mr.
Ribo…
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Village Board hereby authorizes the Village
Manager to submit an application to the New York State Hazard Mitigation Revolving Loan
Fund Program for $701,000 for the Brook Street Drainage Improvements project.
9…
DISCUSSIONS ON GAS POWERED LEAF BLOWERS
● The Board of Trustees has asked the Committee to gather more information on gas leaf
blower impact and on public opinion on their use. ● The BOT will shortly send a memo to the CCAC with further information…
The question of what to do about gas-powered leaf blowers is headed back to Croton's Conservation Advisory Council. At the council's June 16 meeting, members took up a new assignment from the Board of Trustees: gather more information on the impact o…
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: that a copy of this home rule request be sent to State
Assemblywoman Dana Levenberg and State Senator Peter Harckham.
On a motion by TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE NICHOLSON, the Village Board
voted 4-0 (TRUSTEE SLIPPEN…
The Croton Conservation Advisory Council heard a detailed pitch from the advocacy group Quiet Clean Croton for a year-round ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, reviewed a mixed Earth Day debrief, and voted to recommend a village engineering review of th…
QUIET, CLEAN, CROTON ● Dave Daly and Tom Smith of Quiet Clean Croton gave a second, more in depth
presentation on the goals of and motives for founding Quiet Clean Croton. They also
handed out materials and resources explaining their …
Mayor Pugh advised that Croton’s Police camera data is hosted by the Westchester
County Police Department and is not cloud based. Mayor Pugh stated that approving
this action tonight does not mean it will be passed by the State Legislature and if it
…
Dave of Farrington Road delivered a detailed case for a year-round ban on gasoline-powered leaf blowers, rebutting what he called myths about electric alternatives, impacts on landscapers, and the adequacy of seasonal restrictions. He noted that Slee…
And, speaking of Eva Thaddeus and her great work, the Garden Club, did a planting around it. So that, I appreciate all of those. It's great that so many of the committees that I'm a liaison to did such great work that we're gonna celebrate this week.…
Thank you. So thank you to everyone. Everyone's really said a lot that I was about to say, but I will just do a quick quick shout out to the CAC and Eva Thaddeus. The Earth Day celebration was wonderful. You know, great partnership between the DPW, m…
Hi. Dave from Farrington. Dave Lowell from Farrington Road. I'm happy to be here today, April 22, Earth Day. Happy Earth Day. Mhmm. I'd just like to read for you read to you from your own website, if I may, Croton on Hudson, why Croton banned gas pow…
Stereocelia in the inner ear, which are responsible for our hearing and balance, do not regenerate once damaged, meaning hearing impacts from lawn equipment noise is permanent. Noise pollution also adds to stress, which is one reason why communities …
It's still a security, it's a safety as far as I'm concerned. It's a safety situation here, as well as an inconvenience. So, but I think that letting people know what that update is is important. So I don't know how we move that forward if we need to…
QUIET, CLEAN, CROTON
● David Lowell of Quiet Clean Croton gave an introduction to his group and its mission to
ban gasoline powered leaf blowers and expressed his hopes for cooperation in the
future.
NRI UPDATE
● Madalyn reported …
David Lowell of the group Quiet Clean Croton introduced his organization's mission to ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers in the village and expressed hope for future cooperation with the council. Lowell has appeared before the Board of Trustees multip…
During public comment, Croton resident David Lowell of Farrington Road returned to the podium to press the board on gas-powered leaf blower regulations. He presented a list of various communities that have totally banned the use of gas-powered leaf b…
Thank you. My name is Dave. I live on Farrington. Thank you for this time to speak. Have you noticed the increase in noise and air pollution since I was last here? Yeah. We all have. Trustees, mayor, it does not have to be like this. Every time I'm h…
Thank you, trustee Nicholson. First of I wish, to I wanna make sure that, or I hope, I should say, that everyone had a good Easter and Passover in Ramadan since Ramadan was just ending, I think, when we had our last meeting. So I hope everyone had a …
The mayor has said that it's too expensive to require town landscapers to use battery equipment. Sure. It will be more money, but such is progress. How does it work in White Plains, Larchmont, Irvington, Mamaroneck? You're adding more noise pollution…
Thank you. So I just have a couple of things. I was able to to attend the trash conversation last night and, unfortunately, needed to duck out a little bit early before they kind of got to the main event, which is conversation around composting in sc…
and trustee Nixon, good good thoughts on, I think, on the on the leaf blowers as well as from from our participants. And it's it's it's on our list. We know it's on our list, and it's just a question of of of addressing it at some point. But soon, I …
During public comment, Ed Riely of Truesdale Drive criticized the village's fire department awards and recreation fees, while David Lowell of Farrington Road submitted a written request for a permanent ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.
On the practic…
Ie: pollinator gardens /property maintenance
c. John will work on getting data related to code violations issued in various categories
( leaf blowers, idling- police department, property maintenance, tree law
7. Repair Café
a. Library in interes…
b. We agreed to display and discuss with public at the CAC table during Earth
Day. c. We discussed the theme of enforcement across conservation laws in our
community. Trees, Leaf Blowers, Idling – a consistent complaint is
inconsistent, or seeming…
Croton-on-Hudson Police Department blotter, week of 2021-06-14 to 2021-06-20 (village-published selection of incidents; source: https://www.crotononhudson-ny.gov/police-department/news/weekly-police-blotter-june-14-june-20).
6/19/21 3:15 p.m. — Prope…