After a majority vote to reopen an alleyway in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, town officials are now asking two business owners for some changes before the reopening and are even discussing installing beach restrooms there instead.

The parking lot directly in front of Anglins Pier in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea currently has one opening for vehicles to enter and exit off of Commercial Boulevard. On Jan. 28, the owners of the parking lot, Spiros and Louis Marchelos, were given permission to have vehicles exit through a 34-foot alleyway only if the brothers replaced the current fence and had a parking lot attendant physically open and close a chain barrier before each car exits the lot.

“We are talking to engineers and architects now about costs [of making these changes],” Marchelos said.

All that effort could be foiled anyway if an idea proposed by Vice Mayor Jerry McIntee at a recent commission meeting to install beach restrooms in the alleyway goes through.

At the Feb. 10 commission meeting, Town Manager Ester Colon and Mayor Roseann Minnet said that if they determined that vehicles are going to be exiting through the alleyway, bathrooms would make more sense at El Prado Park.