For more than two decades, Chris Marlow's parents have built up the Golden Lion Cafe as one of the go-to places in Flagler Beach.
It's surrounded by free parking, which is quickly snatched up when the weather is nice.
Any mention of the city thinking of charging for parking in Flagler Beach has Marlow and his parents wondering what it would mean for their restaurant and its customers.
Marlow said if there was paid parking in Flagler Beach, it would give customers options to go to places where parking is free.
Roseanne Stocker, the chairwoman of the city's ad hoc parking committee, said now is the time for the city to have a master parking plan before it is too late.
"We're facing issues of capacity and, at the moment, we don't have a master parking plan in our city," Stocker said. "Pretty much anything goes."
Some proposals include more than $500,000 for parking kiosks around town, changing the free public parking to $5 a day on weekdays and $7 a day on weekends, and even a trolley that would run from points inland to the beach.
Stocker said all of the proposals are still on the table because "it would be almost irresponsible if our city didn't at least look at these issues."
Marlow and other business owners in Flagler Beach, however, said there isn't a parking problem in the city.
"Business is good," Marlow said. "And if it's hard to park, then I think that's a good problem to have."
Stocker said there is no plan written in stone yet, but the parking committee is running out of time. She wants to hand the plan off to the Flagler Beach City Commission within the next three months.
A roundtable discussion was held for city business owners last week. A similar roundtable for private citizens is being held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The parking committee will get the comments from the two public meetings next week.