The City of Sheboygan is once again being sued.
The Sheboygan Common Council will meet today (April 2nd) at 6:00 p.m., and bringing in legal counsel will be up for debate after a Town of Wilson resident has filed a lawsuit against Mayor Ryan Sorenson and the City.
The Council will discuss bringing in attorney Jill Hall of von Briesen and Roper, s.c., the same law firm that conducted a report on former City Attorney Charles Adams ahead of his resignation in March.
The lawsuit has been filed by Belle Rose Ragins, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against the City of Sheboygan Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals over the proposed Kohler golf course in the Black River area of Sheboygan.
While details of the new lawsuit aren’t yet available, the lawsuit relating to the proposed golf course goes into detail explaining how Ragins, who has a disability protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act, was denied the opportunity to speak at the City Plan Commission meeting held on November 12th of last year because she was not there in person despite being unable to attend due to her disability.
This November 12th Plan Commission meeting ended with the extension of the Kohler Company’s conditional use permit for the land where the golf course would be built, over 1,000 days after it was issued.
The City’s requirements state, “The start of construction of any and all conditional uses shall be initiated within 365 days of their approval by the plan commission.”
