HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Calif. —Living in the Hollywood Hills and having a view that's good even on an overcast day is a dream for many people. But Bob, who has been living his dream for 25 years says there's also some nightmare moments here. 

“The tour guides tell the tourists a celebrity lives here, a celebrity lives there. One night at two o'clock in the morning somebody rang our doorbell, which is kind of disturbing up here in the hills where it's really quiet and secluded. And I looked through the peephole and there were two girls asking if Keanu Reeves was home. It was very frightening in the middle of the night.”

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Bob, who didn't want to use his last name for fear of retaliation by bus operators, says the cause of random people knocking on his door in the middle of the night is also the cause of some major problems in the hills.

That cause, he says, is tour buses. 

“The tour buses have just taken over. If you sat out here you would see, at least on a Sunday, you'd see at least 100 tour buses come by, and most of them will come along and they'll stop right about here. The problem is the number of tour buses and the size of the tour buses."

"The facts that they're stopping it right here is actually a blind curve. So when they stop right there, it does create a danger. There have been numerous car accidents involving tour buses. There's been a lot of animosity from the public just because we're inundated with these and it creates a constant every day safety hazard.”

For the past few years residents have campaigned the city with letters and photos of tour buses doing things that put other drivers at risk.

“I can tell you that the residents are absolutely united. It is an extreme nuisance and a public safety hazard. When you have tourists getting out and walking across the street on blind curves because their tour guide is saying come look at this, it's a very dangerous situation,” Bob said.

But Star Track Tours owner, Jeff Napshin, says the issue of safety in the hills is misdirected.

“Yes sometimes vehicles may stop and appropriately they need to be more considerate of other drivers. But when it comes to safety of the tour vehicles and the passengers, it is dramatically safer in the Hollywood Hills than other major roads like Santa Monica and Sunset.”

The city council's Transportation Committee recently requested that the LA Department of Transportation (LADOT) come up with suggestions of specific streets and roads that it marks is unsafe for tour buses and vans to travel on. But rather than banning all tour buses from the hills, Napshin suggests the city make some adaptations to help the tour businesses.

“If the city and the county would work with us to designate a certain area along the side of the road where we had enough room to pull over and actually show these places that would allow us to get out of the road and still provide an incredible experience for visitors to L.A.,” Napshin said. 

While Bob and Napshin may be on opposing sides of this debate at the moment, finding a solution that suits the people who live here, and the people who are just driving through, is ultimately something that both sides want.

This new proposed ordinance will go through one more Transportation Committee meeting before be heard by the full council before the end of January.