Victoria plugged in to follow Oak Bay’s leaf blower lead

While staff craft new bylaws to deal with noise in the city, Victoria is also floating down the path of potentially banning gas-powered leaf blowers and upping fines for noise violations.Faced with conflicting rules, incomplete definitions and noise districts based on land use patterns of the time it was adopted in 2003, after review and public consultation, city staff recommended several shifts in Victoria’s noise bylaw.
In general, the new bylaw set to come before council would use diffe