Permit fight with the city leads owner to seek legal options [Video]

TEMPE, Ariz. — The owner of a scooter rental company is exploring legal options after the City of Tempe gave her an ultimatum Tuesday that she can’t afford.

Ari Boyce-Jones, the owner of EasyrideZ LLC, invested more than $20,000 into her scooter rental business and had permission to operate in Tempe Beach Park, or so she thought.  

In September, after being in business for more than two years, park rangers told her to pack up the small business she built her life around. The City of Tempe explained the agreement was a “collective misunderstanding.”

“I felt like I had been kicked in the chest when I read that in the email because I had very specifically been told otherwise,” Boyce-Jones told 12News in September. “I have bent over backwards …