Hi Elizabeth- It is not a home. This takes place on the recently expanded County property @ Health & Human Svcs Center/Juvenile Detention Center. Inmates from Department of Corrections go out there and blow leaves well before 8 a.m. several times a week including holidays and weekends. It is very high pitched and audible inside our homes.

The Sheriff's Department explained that the County can ostensibly do this because the blowing is done on County property and thereon you can begin to operate these machines at 7 a.m. rather than at 8 a.m., unlike within City limits.

However, when the noise constitutes a nuisance they should be legally prohibited from doing this- they are located adjacent to a residential neighborhood and the noise is audible there beyond their property/airspace. They should be better neighbors to us.

They should also stop their employees from parking all day on our street in front of our homes when they have over a 160 parking spots of their own.

Supervisor, are you listening???