The affluent, liberal Chicago suburb of Evanston ignored the pleas of its mostly Hispanic landscapers and kept a gas blower ban in place.
The City Council rejected a temporary reprieve from its complete ban on gas blowers, first put in place in 2021, during a meeting on March 11. Before the 2021 ban, they could only be used from March 30 to May 15 and Oct. 15 to early December, according to the city code.
Juan Rodriguez, a local landscaper, called out the hypocrisy during last Monday’s meeting and explained why rakes and electric blowers won’t cut it. The public works director said “the city has spent $37,000 to buy electric blowers and weed wackers for its crews this year and also had to buy a lot of batteries, add inverters to vehicles and more outlets to the shop,” according to
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