SPRING HILL - Dr. Diana Crivelli says she just wants to be a good neighbor.

And she wants to start by discounting concerns that her new office, to be located in a residential area of Spring Hill, will be a magnet for criminals trying to break in for OxyContin and other prescription drugs that are in hot demand on the street.

Crivelli said chiropractors don't dispense prescription drugs. Perhaps the strongest thing on her office cabinet is St. John's Wort, she jokes.

But some neighbors petitioned to block Crivelli from opening up her new clinic, located at 3065 Fairview Drive, at the corner of Spring Hill Drive, just west of Barclay Road. They believe it is an intrusion into their residential community and will bring traffic.

Crivelli said that won't happen.

"It's going to be a beautiful, tasteful building with a park-like setting in the front," Crivelli said.

The building will be repainted with warm colors and she doesn't intend to hire a guerilla marketer to stand in front of the practice begging for patients.

"This building has been sitting vacant for as long as I've lived here, so this should be an improvement," she added.

Neighbor Glenn Fertig's home is only feet from the back of the building that Crivelli will occupy. In fact, his pool is clearly visible from one of the windows of Crivelli's new office, which is a former builder's model.

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