The Fond du Lac city council president says he believes an alternative Lakeside Park master plan should be put to a public referendum. Brian Kolstad says since the alternative plan was introduced, the city council has basically gone unchecked. The controversial plan includes a restaurant on the lighthouse peninsula and amphitheater on Oven Island. Kolstad says the original master plan survived six years of elections, which he says gave it validity that the public could get behind it, unlike the alternative master plan. Kolstad says details of the alternative plan weren’t available until it was too late to file papers to run for city council , the council voted on it and the election was uncontested. The group Friends of Lakeside Park is expected to file a lawsuit in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court this week against the city council’s action rejecting petitions for direct legislation. Kolstad says regardless of what happens with the citizen’s direct legislation, he believes the question should go to the voters in the form of a referendum. Kolstad says the city needs to get more information from the public to validate the direction that it’s currently going in.
