The Civic Genie appears and will instantly pass three pieces of legislation in your town. (Not state or federal) What laws will you choose?

It's in the same vein as point #3: because of inversion effects and occasional wildfires, we often have mediocre air quality. As mentioned, this is a semi-rural area, where you'd think "peace, quiet, and fresh air," but we don't have those things because of constant noise and/or air pollution from idling vehicles, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, barking dogs, bonfires in summer, wood stoves in winter, burn piles all year round (they get SO smokey when damp, which due to the climate is 75% of the time), etc. So it's a general quality of life thing for exercising/working/relaxing outside (and because we're such a small community, outside activities are all there is to do around here, unless you drive to the next town over). Furthermore air conditioning in rare in my neighborhood so we rely on open windows on hot days, which means inviting all those unpleasant sounds and bad air inside.

However, I have a personal reason why the car idling issue is especially bothersome. One of my neighbors insists on idling their car for 5-10 minutes every morning before work. They leave between 5-7am (way before I wake up) and their driveway is right next to my bedroom window. So in summer I either have to a) boil alive with the window shut or b) get woken up before dawn by the sound and smell of their car exhaust. I've also witnessed people watching videos or chatting on the phone in their cars outside the only entrance to our only park while their car idles for god knows how long.

Throw in the occasional dog attacks (because of #2, we have loose, poorly-trained, unsupervised dogs wandering the streets), and it's unnecessarily uncomfortable trying to stay active and touch grass around here. So considering what little purview our town has, those are the things I'd change.

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