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Leaf Blowers in Hillsborough - Noise Ordinance
Rebate Program Now Available
The State appropriated $30 million in vouchers to fund zero-emission small off-road equipment for professional landscaping services operated by small businesses or sole proprietors. CORE provides a point-of-sale discount to help offset the incremental cost of zero-emission technology. By deploying zero-emission professional landscape service equipment across California, industry workers and communities experience the benefits of reduced emissions, quieter operations, and improved public health.
CORE was created to reduce price barriers, enabling users to adopt more zero-emission equipment. Created by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in 2017, CORE provides point-of-sale discount vouchers that reduce the purchase cost of equipment operated in California. CORE vouchers make zero-emission equipment as affordable as their traditional fossil-fueled counterparts at the point of sale. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recognizes that this equipment has the proven ability to reduce criteria and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollutants in California and aims to accelerate the penetration of this cleaner equipment to help meet state clean-air regulations and climate change goals.
For more information, please visit californiacore.org/resources-professional-landscape.
Current Regulations
Download PDF with current regulations in English and Spanish (additional languages in development)
View the existing noise ordinance as it relates to leaf blowers in Town:
Discretionary noise shall be allowed only as follows (or as allowed under the exceptions set forth in Section 8.32.050 of this chapter):
1. Monday through Friday (except holidays observed by the town, meaning that the city clerk's office is closed for observance of the weekday holiday):
a. Between Eight A.M. and Five P.M. Anyone may perform construction, alteration, demolition or repair, and anyone may operate residential power equipment provided that the noise level from all sources combined (whatever the sources are), as measured twenty-five feet outside the property line, shall not exceed one hundred dBA. This standard is the "property plane standard."
b. Between Five P.M. and Eight P.M. Property owners and residents (and family members of either) may operate (on the owner's or resident's property) residential power equipment if the property plane standard is met.
c. Between Nine A.M. and Five P.M. Anyone may operate gas-powered or electric-powered gardening devices that do not produce a total combined noise level in excess of seventy dBA when measured from a distance of twenty-five feet from the loudest operating motor.
2. Saturday:
a. No leaf blowers at any time;
b. Between Ten A.M. and Five P.M. Owners and residents (and family members of either) may operate (on the owner's or resident's property) devices, equipment and machines, other than leaf blowers, that do not produce, singly or in combination, a total combined noise level of more than seventy dBA outside of the property plane.
Leaf Blowers Best Practices
Related Documents
Assembly Bill 1346 (AB 1346) - Air Pollution: Small Off-Road Engines