>Leaves: Reader says Bag them
Bag them or take to recycling or compost them – or a mix of all 3.
We have no trees in our yard that drop any leaves. But most of our neighbors do, and so we get a lot. For years we have bagged them or taken to recycling. We also compost some.
We do it out of common courtesy to others- because if we don’t, the leaves just blow down the street and into everyone’s yards, over and over again.
Just using some common sense and respecting other neighbors can really go a long way.
Unfortunately though, some people don’t do those things, and that’s why putting leaves or anything else in the streets should be made illegal. It creates hazards for everyone as well as being a nuisance.
You do have to enforce it though- even the law about it now (7 days before scheduled pickup) is not enforced. Besides, curr. ordinance is unworkable- the schedule often needs to be changed due to weather and/or storms.
It will also save money and allow what crews we do have to focus on getting to some of the huge amount of other work that’s been left undone time and again, often for years.
So, you get savings to taxpayers, better street conditions, and other benefits if you just stop this “tradition”.
Yet seems some people oppose that idea bitterly, feeling that they shouldn’t be subject to sensible rules for a fully-developed community. Maybe they think they are in the country here or something.
Fact is that nearly anything you do here impacts others, it has been that way for a long time. That’s why rules are necessary about so much stuff- because some people don’t use common sense and courtesy.
