A group of neighbors are unhappy about noise, added traffic and overflow parking problems at the popular State Road restaurant in North Tisbury.

In a letter sent to the West Tisbury selectmen, zoning board of appeals and town building inspector last week, six State Road abutters outlined a long list of complaints about the restaurant, which opened a year and a half ago.

The letter, which was read into the record of the weekly selectmen’s meeting on Wednesday afternoon, also accuses the restaurant of unauthorized parking use on neighboring property.

“Directly behind the restaurant property is a house with two small children who frequently are out in the driveway playing and riding bikes,” the letter said. “Needless to say the family does not want people driving into their yard.”

A kitchen fan that has been in use from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. was cited by neighbors as one among other noise violations.

“The final straw was the morning of August 27 at 2:30 a.m. to be exact, when some of us were awakened to the sound of a commercial power washer going and loud voices calling back and forth,” the letter said. “Two of the households called the police and when they arrived they found that the vents/filters that serve the cooking area were being cleaned.”

Bill Haynes, one of the complaining abutters who signed the letter, said he is rescinding permission for the restaurant to use Caldwell Lane for six parking spaces.

“Mr. Haynes had offered this in an act of neighborly good faith,” the letter said. “The restaurant now needs at least six more spaces on their property.”

Building inspector Ernest Mendenhall, who attended the selectmen’s meeting, said he had visited the restaurant about the early morning cleaning incident. As for the fan noise complaint, he was more skeptical.

“I looked into the fan complaint this year and it’s the same fan from last year,” Mr. Mendenhall said. “I have a letter from the company that services it and there’s no new noise this year, we just have some new unhappiness,” he added.

“In any case that’s an enforcement issue,” said selectman and board chairman Richard Knabel. “It’s unfortunate that the neighbors are having problems but hopefully we can work it out.”

In other business, Mr. Knabel said Cape and Islands Rep. Timothy Madden had sent a letter to Mark Seigenthaler of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development about revising its rules for applications for Community Development Block Grants.

Mr. Knabel said the town is trying to apply for grant money which he said allows eligible citizens to rehab their houses with a forgivable loan at zero interest rate, as well as provide child care assistance, but that West Tisbury was largely ineligible due to rules that classified summer residents of West Tisbury as year-round residents.

“According to them we are wealthier than Chilmark,” he said.

Mr. Knabel said he had recently attended a meeting of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, where he said sympathy was in short supply for the Vineyard.

“As soon as you say ‘Martha’s Vineyard’ there seems to be a blank expression on these people’s faces because there is this perception that the streets are paved with gold here,” Mr. Knabel said.

He said the state organization is revising its application procedures and will issue them as soon as possible; the deadline for filing applications is in early October.

“When they tell us what revisions they’ve made, we’ll know whether we are eligible,” he said.

Finally Mr. Knabel said that despite the botched travel advisory that went out as a 2 p.m. road closure in advance of Hurricane Earl, West Tisbury was well prepared for last Friday’s non-hurricane.

“As it turned out, we had roughly four inches of rain, but it is always better to be overprepared,” he said.