[Scott Douglas]

We have a gardener, so do the neighbors to the south of us. They have trees along our adjoining side yard, we do not.
Our gardener comes on Tuesday's, first thing in the morning @8AM. Theirs comes some time later in the day also on Tuesdays.
At first, theirs would tend to blow the leaves into our yard and just leave them there. I witnessed this happen a couple of times. The next time I saw there were leaves to be blown, I went out and made sure they understood that my gardener had already come AND that my yard was leaf free because of it. I told the guy on the blower that I expected my yard to be leaf free when he got done. The boss of the crew came over and I told him what I expected and he agreed with me.
Now, they blow from my side of the yard towards the neighbors before blowing towards the front yard where they pick them up. It's against the law to blow cuttings into our streets here. The one guy at the end of the T used to just blow his into the street but I've noticed he doesn't do that any more so someone must have talked to him about it. Maybe the guys in the big truck that are always coming and checking in the man holes to see what is clogging the sewers did.