The Fond du Lac city council president says a charter ordinance is designed to prevent the controversy that surrounded a proposed commercial development at Lakeside Park a couple of years ago. The Fond du Lac city council held a public hearing last week on the ordinance that would require a referendum before the city could sell or lease any park land for constructing a building. Council president Patrick Mullen says under a charter ordinance the controversial proposal to build a restaurant on the Lakeside Park Lighthouse Peninsula would have gone to referendum. “It would have avoided the whole controversy about public input, the petitions, raucous city council meetings, the ethics complaints, and all the nonsense that was going on,” Mullen told WFDL news. Because one person has filed a formal objection to the charter ordinance there is a 60 day waiting period until the council votes on the charter ordinance.
