Ike Williams says city won't let him rent personal watercraft after saying he couldFriday, February 01, 2008 Staff Reporter
By RYAN DEZEMBER
A prominent south Baldwin County businessman has sued Gulf Shores, claiming that officials in City Hall illegally shut down his personal watercraft rental business last summer.
Ike Williams, who has run Ike's Beach Service for the past two decades, filed the suit earlier this month in Baldwin County Circuit Court alleging that city officials in July ordered him to stop renting personal watercraft months after he had started doing so.
And he claims that before buying the property at 800 W. Beach Blvd., then-Code Enforcement Officer Frank Breaux and Mayor G.W. "Billy" Duke III told him the property's zoning allowed him to rent personal watercraft.
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