I empathise. We live in the Roosevelt District in apartments. There's a house on the corner next to us. Far too often for my tastes the residents of said house on the corner and all their friends come home at 2:30 after the bars have closed and stand on the corner shouting "woohoo". Now I realize that living in apartments you need to expect noise, and that's why we're moving to a house next week, but it's rediculous when you get woken from a dead sleep by shouting.
I also understand about the city council. They only take the job because it's a lot of money for so little work. A friend of mine who lives on Beacon Hill had a somewhat different problem but it amounted to the same headache. She and her husband had to rally the neighbors and attend city council meeting after meeting to attempt to save thier house. They wanted to tear it down so that they could build a new library there, despite there being a plethora of other places to build it that wouldn't involve making people sell their houses at a loss and move. They finally won that battle and saved their house, but it was at least a year and a half of your house is on the list to be torn down, okay, it's off the list, oh wait, it's on the list.
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I also understand about the city council. They only take the job because it's a lot of money for so little work. A friend of mine who lives on Beacon Hill had a somewhat different problem but it amounted to the same headache. She and her husband had to rally the neighbors and attend city council meeting after meeting to attempt to save thier house. They wanted to tear it down so that they could build a new library there, despite there being a plethora of other places to build it that wouldn't involve making people sell their houses at a loss and move. They finally won that battle and saved their house, but it was at least a year and a half of your house is on the list to be torn down, okay, it's off the list, oh wait, it's on the list.