Locals in Hollywood, California, are planting garden beds to deter vagrants from pitching tents in front of their businesses.

“We’re not trying to displace anybody. We just need to get into our facility. This is a private studio, and you can’t even walk in because there are tents all through here,” Drew Dempsey, a producer at Sunset Sound, said, according to a report.

For years, the area around the famous recording studio was popular with homeless people, making it difficult for pedestrians to move and businesses to operate, but beds and planters placed by Dempsey are making life easier.

“Sometimes, I have to walk on the street to get around it. Now it’s just cleared out, but this one is very obvious to me,” one local, Nicholas Almanza, said.

“I understand the business view, you pay a lot for any space or land, so you want it clean and inviting to your customers, but then again, it’s inevitable,” Almanza said. “You’re going to find homelessness everywhere here.”

The vagrants not only make businesses on Sunset Boulevard difficult to get to, but they also present a constant danger, according to Dempsey.

Sunset Sound was burglarized in February and twice set on fire in the past year, and employees have quit due to feeling unsafe, the report noted.

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“When Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift come in or Elton John … that means the world to us,” Dempsey said. “But to be attacked or see nudity or crime, that’s not conducive to being creative or feeling safe.”

The move by business owners in Hollywood to plant garden beds arrives on the heels of a recent announcement from officials in Los Angeles County that reported a 45% rise in the number of families in the homeless community in the last year.