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Council approves PUD amendment after county warns parking tied to state Job Center is risky
Summary
The Green Bay Common Council on May 5 approved a planned unit development (PUD) amendment for the Third on the Square library project after adopting language changes requested by Brown County to decouple surface-parking rights from a state-run Job Center lease.
The Green Bay Common Council voted to approve an amended PUD for the Third on the Square project after Brown County officials warned that language in the ordinance could remove promised parking if a state-leased Job Center left the site.
Dan Teters, speaking for Brown County, told the council the draft PUD specifically tied construction and use of a 54-space surface parking lot to the presence of several tenants including the Wisconsin Job Center and the ADRC’s Grounded Cafe. "The job center is a lease of the Brown County Library. Job Center is not a Brown County entity and is subject to state budgets," Teters said, explaining that a state decision to end the Job Center lease could strip the parcel’s parking rights and leave the library, ADRC and cafe without adequate spaces.
Alder Profett introduced an amendment that replaces specific references to the Job Center (and to the "Wisconsin Job Center" where used) with the broader term "public or semi-public users," and removes a named reference to the Grounded Cafe in favor of a more generic cafe/restaurant use. After questions from council members and staff clarified that removing named users would require a new PUD amendment if tenants change in the future, the council approved Profett’s amendment and later adopted the PUD as amended.
City staff noted the change would preserve the shared-parking intent while reducing the risk that a state tenant’s unrelated decision could automatically void planned parking. Development staff also reminded council that final site plans must still meet density and code standards established in earlier ordinances.
The council approved the amended PUD by an 11–1 vote. The ordinance is recorded in the session as zoning ordinance number 03-26 and will proceed under the city’s normal implementation and permitting processes.
What happens next: staff will finalize the PUD language as amended and the project will proceed to final site-plan review, with any future tenant-driven changes to uses or parking to be handled via formal PD/PUD amendment procedures.
