With the issue beginning to boil in the Avenues, Jergensen may have enough support on the council to make some changes that would mitigate a production's negative impacts.

Currently only neighbors who allow crews to use their homes or yards gain monetary benefits from film crews. The city could require crews to spread money to more neighbors who are impacted by production through closed streets and late-night noise, Jergensen said.

Maybe requiring the film crew to donate money for a community project — such as lighting — would be legitimate compensation for weeks of hassle.

"There could be some kind of quid pro quo," Jergensen said. Or there could be rules limiting the hours film work could be done.

"It's a tremendous source of revenue for the state and for the city," Jergensen said. "But that benefit needs to be balanced in terms of being a benefit to the actual neighborhood where filming is done."

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