blight

Blight runs through the park and bleeds into surrounding streets, with homeless encampments in every direction.

According to chairman Mike Crookes, the facility would "blight this area" and the economic impact on tourism could be "profound" and "catastrophic".

Many people find gulls’ “wily” behaviors entertaining, Blight adds, and they’re a star of many memes.

“I think that when people are confronted with nature in the city people are both fascinated by it and sometimes inconvenienced by it,” says seabird ecologist Louise Blight.

Images of the colorful mansion were broadcast on the evening news while neighbors called it a blight that had long been ignored by the city.