Pubdate: Tue, 25 Mar 2008
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2008, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://torontosun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Brett Clarkson

'TERRIFIED' RESIDENTS DEMAND CLUB CLOSURE

Car mirrors smashed, drug dealers guarding alleyways,  people
stumbling up the street and laughing  hysterically, some of them
collapsing into their cars  and driving.

Just another weekend on the street behind the Comfort  Zone, according
to the frustrated residents of Robert  St.

A day after the second police raid at the club in two  weeks, locals
who live nearby yesterday said they're  fed up.

"Hopefully all this attention now will precipitate the  city to close
the club," said Tim Grant, 56, a Robert  St. homeowner who represents
his neighbours in the  Harbord Village Residents Association.

Peter Stojanovic, 58, owner of Peter's Garage, which  backs onto the
alley behind the club, also said the  noise is becoming too much.
Stojanovic also lives  next-door to his Robert St. business.

"They should shut it down," he said.

For the second week in a row, police stormed into the  College St. and
Spadina Ave. club on Sunday, arresting  two people on drug-trafficking
charges, seizing GHB,  ecstasy, ketamine and marijuana.

The Sunday before, police charged 33 people and bagged  $30,000 worth
of drugs.

Police say that because the club isn't a  liquor-licensed
establishment, they can't just shut it  down. Fire officials who
inspected the club last week  said there are no grounds to padlock
it.

Last week, Councillor Adam Vaughan said residents of  Robert St. are
"fed up." But while the club will be  "watched closely," there's
currently no grounds to shut  it down.

Several Robert St. residents allege club patrons deal  drugs in the
Lord Lansdowne Public School park behind  the club, as well as in the
alleyway behind it.

"The neighbourhood is terrified," said one man whose  house is
separated from the back of the club by the  school.

The man said he can't open his windows on Sundays in  the summer
because music from the club is so loud.

"We would be really happy if (Comfort Zone) closed  down," added the
man's neighbour, a woman in her early  30s.
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