An Omaha man says "I do," wanting to turn a wedding reception hall into a keno club, but residents say the marriage of a keno club and their neighborhood is not a match made in heaven.

Jeff Rothlisberger took over what was then Cartier's nightclub at 65th Street and Ames Avenue three years ago, promising things would be different.

"The stuff on the tape, it's like comparing apples to oranges, these were younger people, it was a nightclub. They were leaving here well after one o'clock. This just doesn't apply to what we're doing here," said Rothlisberger in 2006.

Over the years his building has had different names, but residents say they've seen the same sort of problems and they are tired of seeing them spill into their neighborhood.

"Oh my gosh, it's worse, there may not be as many patrons that come, but it's more violent," says Sharon Chvala, who feels nothing has changed.

"All I know is that Cartier's was very bad here, but this has escalated because now we have gunfire, now we have shots being fired and how do you direct, who can direct a ricocheting bullet?"

Tuesday, Rothlisberger appeared before the Omaha City Council with a plan to turn his business into a keno hall. "Every one of the problems that I had was when you had at least some hip hop there," says Rothlisberger. "Problems that happened last time are something that I couldn't have avoided."

Omaha Police Capt. Diana Kelly says recent large gatherings at the hall taxes police resources.

"We generally have to assign additional officers that are taken away from their routine duty of answering radio calls, patrolling their districts, just to go to Claiborne's. We also have to call in officers on overtime status."

City councilmen want Rothlisberger to take responsibility for events at Claiborne's. "I don't want any other parties at the facility," says Councilman Frank Brown. "Now you're taking responsibility, but you made promises and you went back on them."

The City Council voted unanimously to approve Rothlisberger's request for a keno hall, but only keno. Rothlisberger will be allowed to hold five parties already booked over the next three weeks.