But now some residents are complaining that the clients are again becoming a neighborhood nuisance and that the agency is doing little to rectify the problem.

Usually these ordinances have been used to stop neighborhood nuisances, such as dirty houses, property and cars," or gamblers and prostitutes.

The childlike Lummox is perceived to be a neighborhood nuisance and, upon leaving the Stuart property one day, causes substantial property damage across the city of Westville.

But the owner of the restaurant, Sami Kader, denied that his establishment, which has been in business for a year and a half, is a neighborhood nuisance.

Still others, though, are cracking down tightly, fearing that today's low-impact business could turn into tomorrow's neighborhood nuisance.

Mr. Galvin filed a lawsuit against the college, which is still pending, claiming that intoxicated football fans were a neighborhood nuisance and destroyed property.

The brothels, which open at night in apartments along Roosevelt Avenue, seem more a neighborhood nuisance and a testament to their workers' desperation to survive however they can.

More problematic, he added, was babysitting sidewalk smokers outside so that they do not become a neighborhood nuisance.

The Federal Government seized the 641-room hotel in 1994, at a time when roving bands of drug dealers and addicts had taken over entire floors, terrorizing elderly tenants and creating an intolerable neighborhood nuisance.

Furthermore, given the dominance of cars and streets in the neighborhood nuisance, some councils have built artificial streets for the practice of Galotxa.