Las Vegas City Council, the Southern Nevada Health District and the Metropolitan Police Department recently joined forces to shape up a run-down residential neighborhood near West Lake Mead Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive, and City Councilman Ricki Barlow said the joint effort already has resulted in great improvement.

At its July 16 meeting, the City Council voted to assess $500 daily civil penalties to three property owners on Bellota Drive. The four-plex rental properties were considered abandoned and neglected, and city officials said the property owners had ignored multiple code enforcement notices and orders for almost six months.