>Time to Bag those leaves
I’ve posted about leaves in the street before, having narrowly missed being hit more than once by drivers who couldn’t see around the skyscrapers people insist on building in the street.
Putting leaves or anything else in the streets should be illegal and the fines should be high to encourage compliance, perhaps after one initial warning.
Village saves money, and you don’t wind up picking up leaves your neighbors pile in the street which then blow into your yard and everyone else’s over and over again.
Simple thing to change. People can bag them, or take to Recycling or compost. (we do all 3 here, and we have no trees, we get loads of leaves though from other people’s trees). If you have a landscaper, make arrangements with them to take leaves away or bag for you.
The other day Village did leaf pickup in our area. Less than an hour later, 3 landscapers and 1 homeowner were out building new street skyscrapers. There is a current ordinance (7 days bef schedule) against that, but it is not enforced. And the schedule sometimes must be changed anyway- out of necessity like weather or storm events.
Simply ban putting leaves in the street completely. As I’ve written before, a long time ago it was tradition here to BURN your leaves. So many people were careless that many fires resulted and so it was changed and no longer permitted.
Time to stop putting leaves and other junk in the street. Is it going to take more accidents, damage to cars -or worse – to make this happen? I sure hope not. I’ve seen kids playing in those piles in the streets, sometimes near when it gets dark too. Recipe for disaster.
It’s simple to do and will save money and pose less hazards too. It is to everyone’s benefit and the cost of paper bags really is not much. You can also avoid that cost and just take to recycling or compost too.
So you have options, and (for 4.11) you can pick “your way” so long as it doesn’t endanger other people the way piling leaves and junk in the streets certainly does.