> If you have a neighbor overusing them then that is an issue to take up with them directly. To be sure, a problem between one individual and another is probab

> If you have a neighbor overusing them then that is an issue to take up with them directly. To be sure, a problem between one individual and another is probably a matter for individual rectification. However, as the other comments here indicate, this is a systemic, not an individual, problem; and it is for precisely such problems that regulation is meant. (Regulation also answers the question: whose problem is it? If my neighbour wants to use a leaf blower, and I think it's too loud, then we might find a compromise. If some external company wants to use a leaf blower, then good luck negotiating a compromise with them; they have no sense of neighbourliness or community to which to appeal. Regulations provide a well defined sense of who is (legally) right, and so a replacement for that missing sense of community.)