SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – Approval from the Natural Resources Board for Kohler Company to receive a parcel of state park land for its effort to build a new golf course.
The company is looking to construct a 247-acre golf course adjacent to Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan County.
The company offered 9.5 acres adjacent to the park and promised to upgrade the park entrance, in exchange for 6.5 acres within the park that will be the site of a maintenance facility.
The NRB’s unanimous approval came in spite of many park users urging the deal be rejected.
Those opposed to the deal cited the facility potentially ruining the park’s ambiance and a possibly dangerous precedent being set of state park land to a private company.
