Sister Bay Leaders Recommend Fast Food Chain Ban

The village board must still take final action. The northern portion of Door County has no fast food chains, and Katie Dahl wants to keep it that way.

"People who come here and vacation or those of us who live here, one thing that we do together the most is eat together and I think to have, we do have a Pamida and a Piggly Wiggly," Dahl told FOX 11 in an interview. "But I think to have a place where you gather that you could gather at anywhere else in the country or the world for that matter is really taking us down a notch."

In the past few months, the Sister Bay village board had a moratorium on fast food restaurants. Only when someone wanted to open a Subway restaurant did it grab their attention, according to the board president.

"There was a lot of grass roots uprising because of that and it came to the forefront and there was a lot of testimony and a lot of people felt that it wasn't Sister Bay or Door County's brand," said Sister Bay village board president Denise Bhirdo.

In the end, the commission did recommend the village board adopt an ordinance keeping chain and fast food restaurants out of town. But not everyone agrees with the move.

"America is a free market principal country and private enterprise has created the world's largest middle class with the highest standard of living," Richard Hill told the commission. "We the people, not government, decide with our money if business is working. I believe this or any other moratorium is over reach by village government."