2/9/2008, 2:04 p.m. CSTBy GARRY MITCHELL
The Associated Press
ONO ISLAND, Ala. (AP) — Residents in the wealthy gated enclave of Ono Island on the Alabama Gulf Coast used an environmental argument to keep an Orange Beach public boat launch off their sandy doorstep.
For Orange Beach officials, the defeat heated up a water access debate, increasingly familiar to Gulf communities, and sent them searching anew for space to park an overflow of boat trailers that only grows worse as the weather warms.
Finding parking for all those boat trailers remains a major problem on the Alabama coast — a magnet for sportfishing crowds, with some leaving their vehicles and trailers on the roadside or in shopping center parking lots when they can't find anywhere else to park.
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