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Oshkosh park board backs ordinance to ban wakeboarding and similar towable activities on section of Fox River
Summary
The Oshkosh Advisory Park Board voted unanimously to recommend a municipal code amendment that would prohibit water-skiing, wakeboarding and other towable-person activities on a defined stretch of the Fox River; the board will forward the proposal to city council for ordinance readings.
The Oshkosh Advisory Park Board on Wednesday voted to forward to city council a proposed amendment to municipal code section 17-29 that would ban motorboats towing persons on water skis, aquaplanes, wakeboards or similar devices on a defined stretch of the Fox River.
The proposed language read to the board would bar towable recreational activities on the Fox River from a point 900 feet south of the Canadian National Railroad bridge upstream to a point 1,900 feet upstream of the Oshkosh Congress Avenue bridge. Parks staff said the change is intended to…
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