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City staff explained the site history: earlier parcel lines shifted after a sale and the area behind the property is now part of the apartment parcel rather than the former single-family parcel. Staff said the code requires a 25-foot buffer where a multifamily building abuts residential property; the applicant’s plan shows a roughly 3-foot buffer in one location and proposes trees and shrubs to screen the lot. Staff told the board that final site plans must show a screening solution that meets the code’s minimum opaque‑screen standard (4 feet tall and 90% opaque year‑round) and the required planting density (about one tree and five shrubs per 200 feet) so that the board can confirm compliance in subsequent review.

Staff also noted the code’s minimum driveway throat of 18 feet measured from the property line; the proposed alley‑facing layout would not provide an 18‑foot throat because it shares an alleyback operation already present on the block. Board members and the applicant discussed how many units the apartment building contains (31) and that the building is short of the code-required 39 parking stalls; the five added stalls would improve but not fully meet the overall parking requirement. The applicant, Dalton Roush of Rouge Properties LLC, said he would submit a final landscape and screening plan and that the proposed pavement would replace a small existing garage and lawn area. Staff computed the site’s existing impervious coverage at about 53.2% and said the addition would raise it to about 60.4% (the OR district maximum is 60%), which the applicant characterized as a de minimis change.

After deliberation board members cited the alley context, the parcel history and the site’s tight urban constraints and approved the variances. The board’s decision requires the applicant to provide a compliant screening/landscape plan in follow-up and to meet remaining technical site-plan requirements in staff review. The outcome was recorded by voice vote.

Ending: Staff will review the applicant’s final site plan and landscape screening submittal; if the applicant alters other parking areas previously grandfathered to meet standards, those changes could trigger additional review or require return to the board for further determinations.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Board of Appeals 3-17-2025","oneSentenceSummary","The board approved variances allowing a new five-stall parking addition accessed from an alley at 822 Pine Street, granting limited relief for landscape buffer width, driveway-throat length measured from property line, and a small increase in impervious surface; applicant must submit final screening and landscape plans to staff.","taxTitle","Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin","taxId",2853,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":79,"_47":80,"_49":81,"_51":82,"_53":83,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":84,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":85,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6117636,"Board approves variance to allow 125 apartments at 100 E. Mason St.; council sign-off still required",0,462000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2729469-ec0777a1e0f24dc057ab2f9d7fddbe97&start=462&end=462","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2729469-ec0777a1e0f24dc057ab2f9d7fddbe97/thumbnail_462000.jpg","/articles/6117636/Green-Bay/Brown-County/Wisconsin/Board-approves-variance-to-allow-125-apartments-at-100-E-Mason-St-council-sign-off-still-required","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6117636-322176c166cce9bc3093f1fc3dba9dbe/orig.mp4?Expires=1773659428&Signature=JnFOi9He20Ux33AFPESQdwSNYqgjK~sUMISvRjtuaDApQ7ViOYwMrDlYBuqUNTY~fwpXUEMpgUHFEUtXtRrrCq~0FaAOLv-HleKnkkRR0N0p4-3eZbMGYYgj-CgVhP8qHwIs1NCPYwDTCbQ2ZorkCwC9b-sdVO0fRHN~vUGjG59SsTjmZ9s8jziwGOIYqr1ZL~oe0UgBeKyyAU81-hmVvmRgLfnjJVjfQ0rIQF~s2keeOeEW-3e~MIelwrPa2SNzeNpQRHft7ePfh6k1Oqilk8gUr4uro9xCbs4YdfuqLfGR1Dgu9pIfitkf5t2c380JAEjEwXBSOPWBkWpJUqurrA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Zoning and Planning Board of Appeals on March 17 approved a variance request to allow Spark Development to pursue 125 apartment units at 100 East Mason Street, a downtown D1 lot, 21 units more than the zoning code’s calculation. The board’s vote followed staff and applicant presentations and a unanimous plan commission recommendation pending council action.

City planning staff told the board the D1 lot is about 2.396 acres and that the zoning code (section 44-620, Table 44-6) requires 1,000 square feet of land per multifamily unit in the D1 district, which yields an allowance of roughly 104 units. Applicant Derek Leibhauser of Spark Development said the project concept mirrors an earlier plan introduced by the Miller family and that a trail alignment and previously executed land swap reduced the parcel area available for the developer’s unit-count calculation.

The applicant described a mixed unit mix of studios through three-bedroom units and said the project will include underground and surface parking (the proposal shows a roughly 1:1 indoor parking ratio plus additional surface stalls, targeting about a 1.5 parking-to-unit ratio overall). Leibhauser told the board he would provide a screening and landscaping plan and noted the team has adjusted the building footprint and parking layout to respond to bulk requirements. He said the proposal does not increase building height beyond what earlier plans requested and that the plan commission had given a unanimous recommendation for the project’s conditional use permit, with final approval by council expected at a forthcoming meeting.

Board members raised questions about the unit mix, whether bedrooms affect parking requirements in non‑D1 districts, and how the trail parcel affected the allowed unit calculation. Staff confirmed the trail parcel is not included in the project land area used to compute the 1,000-square-feet-per-unit standard; had that acreage been included, the applicant said, the project would meet the code’s unit limit.

After deliberation — in which board members cited the site’s unusual parcel history, the prior land-swap that dedicated trail access, and the project team’s commitments on screening and parking — the board voted to approve the variance. The board recorded no roll-call tally; members said “aye” and the motion carried. Approval is subject to the city council’s action on the conditional use permit and to final site-plan and landscape screening details returned to staff for technical review.

The board’s action allows the applicant to proceed to the next approvals with the variance in hand, but it does not remove the requirement that staff receive a site plan demonstrating the screening, tree and shrub plantings and other code bulk and landscaping elements required for final permits. The applicant (Spark Development) said it will submit the screening and planting plan and meet the code’s opaque‑screen and planting spacing requirements as part of the follow-up submittal.

If council or the plan commission declines the conditional use permit or if required screening and site-plan details are not met in subsequent review, the development approvals would not be final. For now the board’s approved variance clears a major zoning obstacle to the 125-unit concept.

Ending: The applicant and staff said they will return to finalize engineering and landscape plans and that council review of the conditional use permit is expected at the next council meeting.","The Zoning and Planning Board of Appeals approved a variance allowing Spark Development to seek 125 apartment units on a downtown D1 lot at 100 East Mason Street — 21 units above the zoning limit — subject to city council and plan commission conditions and required screening and site plan details.","actionData","errors"]

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Board approves alley parking and small lot variances for 822 Pine St.; applicant to supply screening plan

Board approves variance to allow 125 apartments at 100 E. Mason St.; council sign-off still required