This property is ringed with oak trees. Great big healthy oak trees. On all four sides. Because this is elderly housing, no leaf blowers allowed. The fallen leaves are at least an inch thick. If not even thicker. Very dangerous. I have seen parked cars slipping when trying to pull out from the curb.
So instead of leaf blowers, we have maintenance men out there at eight in the morning every day riding this huge monster around and around the property cutting and collecting the grass cuttings. What a racket it makes. For all the fallen leaves, the workers go out there each day and try to get up as many as they can. The city provides huge bags just for the leaves. Then they sent over to a processing place that mulches them. Come spring you can get all the mulch you want for your garden for free.