Stacy Marble, a field deputy for Councilman Tom LaBonge, who represents the area, said some of the most strident complaints about "The Hills" filming have come from neighbor Steven Antin.
He is an actor-producer who Marble said "is trying to shop around a reality show himself about what a hard time he's had living next door to where a reality show is being filmed."
Antin, producer of the "Pussycat Dolls" music-reality series on the CW Television Network, declined to comment. But in an e-mail to The Times, he said the petition shows that the neighborhood is united in opposition to the filming.
Neighbors, however, said he was probably joking about producing his own home-grown program.
It was at LaBonge's Hollywood field office that police had to be called to break up a meeting involving homeowners and city representatives, Marble said.
Although the Los Angeles Police Department would not comment, Marble said officers have stepped up patrols in the neighborhood to monitor the filming but have determined that many of the homeowners' complaints are rooted in issues other than Conrad's reality show.
"Has she had a few parties get out of hand? Yeah," she said.
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