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Council holds Red Smith-area planned unit development after hours of public comment
Summary
After more than three hours of public testimony, the Green Bay Common Council voted 7-5 to hold consideration of a 68-acre planned unit development (PUD) in the Red Smith area until its April 15 meeting amid resident concerns about traffic, flooding and environmental protection.
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Common Council voted 7-5 on Tuesday to hold consideration of a planned unit development (PUD) that would cover roughly 68 acres near Red Smith School until the council’s April 15 meeting, after hours of testimony from developers, neighborhood residents and civic groups.
The vote leaves the proposal — which would mix single-family lots, duplexes, roughly 160 multifamily apartments and a small commercial parcel — pending while city staff and the developer continue conversations about traffic, stormwater, environmental protections and lot design.
The PUD applicant said the proposal would add about 227 single-family lots, nine duplexes and ten 16-unit apartment buildings (about 160 apartments), with roughly 30 acres set aside as open space. “We’re proposing 2.4 less than what is existing out there today,” developer representative Brad Reimer said, describing the plan’s density relative to older plats for the same area.
City staff and the developer described the project as a mixed residential plan that reduces the road length and impervious surface…
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