'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.