Residents of 3rd Street in Lillian—just eight homes along the Perdido Bay—are in disagreement over whether their neighbors’ piers should have been built at an angle. One family says that the piers have landlocked their home, and another resident says she’s afraid of a domino effect that would interrupt her view at the end of the road.

“Everyone should have the right to build a pier if they want to,” said Gayle Beech, a resident of 3rd street. “But not to obstruct somebody else’s view. That is rude.”

Louise Munson, whose husband Terry’s family has owned the land their house sits on for over 100 years, says that because her house sits between two angled piers, there’s no room for her to use the bay. The Munsons had a jet ski, but she could barely navigate it between the two piers, so they got rid of it, she said. They had a floating dock, but they got rid of that because of the hassle as well, she added.

Munson said she’s raised the concerns to her neighbors, Tim and Keri Mixon and Pete and Dawn Lenoir, but they haven’t been amenable to her concerns. In fact, she says she feels bullied by Tim Mixon, who she says is willing to hire lawyers to get his way.

Mixon did not respond to a request for comment.