10-13-22 fdl city council approves charter ordinance

The Fond du Lac city council has approved a charter ordinance that would require a referendum before the city could sell or lease any park land for constructing a commercial building. Council president Patrick Mullen says the ordinance is designed to prevent the controversy that surrounded a proposed commercial development at Lakeside Park a couple of years ago.   Mullen says under a charter ordinance the controversial proposal  to build a restaurant on the Lakeside Park Lighthouse Peninsula would have gone to referendum.  Mullen says a charter ordinance requiring a referendum would have “eliminated all of the nonsense and personal attacks”   that took place at that time.