We join the many Oak Park letter writers who have contacted you in opposition to the proposed leaf-bagging plan.
What problem is the proposed plan supposed to solve? My understanding is that the compensation paid by the village to LRS will remain the same, while considerable extra labor is done by homeowners who will also incur extra expense. Is someone getting a kickback?
I cannot imagine the frustration of trying to herd a pile of those dry fly-away leaves into a bag. Also, please consider the aesthetics. Oak Park is (mostly) a very attractive town. We enjoy generally good architecture (some of it great) and we live in an urban arboretum maintained by the village arborist.
The vision of large paper bags stuffed with leaves lining the curbs strikes me as unattractive, compared with piles of natural leaves. And what will happen when autumn rains come and turn those bags into large sodden lumps and sometime break?
Please retain the leaf pick-up program as it has always been as long as we have lived here (54 years!)
Ann & Jerry Bolan
Oak Park
