The city manager of Cocoa Beach is out with a list of recommendations to cut down on rowdy behavior at one popular beach, and on the list: a drinking ban.

That ban is already causing a heated debate, as the city tries to grapple with bad behavior and trash at the beach on the end of the Minutemen Causeway downtown.

It's pretty peaceful during the week on the beach at the end of the Minutemen Causeway, but on weekends, city leaders and residents complain it's too rowdy, with cases of disorderly conduct, public urination, assault, battery, even fornication.

So city leaders are considering a ban on drinking on this portion of the beach, near the Minutemen Causeway.

City Manager Bob Majka released his suggestions today, he’ll present them at a meeting Thursday evening.

He says the drinking ban would at first be a part of a test period, and up to the city commission to decide if they want a permanent ban.

“Our charge is to be family oriented and so we think that there’s a way, if the behavior changes, one of two things. Either the behavior changes or those who choose to no longer patronize the beach they may be replaced by families that come,” said Bob Majka, Cocoa Beach City Manager.

But business owners and several beach-goers we spoke with are against any kind of drinking ban, concerned college-age kids from Orlando will no longer spend their money at this section of the beach.

"Everybody wants to come to the beach and relax. And what is more picture perfect than having a beer, a Corona with a lime on top on the beach. I don’t understand why anyone would want to take that away from the people that are coming to visit here, that brings people here," said Ben Abbott, Cocoa Beach resident.

The city manager also suggests increasing staffing levels for more law enforcement on the beach, creating a downtown business watch group, and setting up a modular, public restroom to cut down on public urination.

He’s also hoping a new solid waste services contract will cut down on the amount of trash that mounts up on the beach.

It will be up to city commission to approve any ordinance banning alcohol consumption.