ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ) - Residents in the Lambeau Field neighborhood are meeting with the Green Bay Packers about planned construction that could affect them.
“I'm happy that they are expanding,” Chad Van Vonderen, who lives near Lambeau Field, told FOX 11. “I just wish they were a little more forthcoming with what their plans are for the neighborhood.”
The Packers told about 70 Lambeau area residents who met with team officials earlier this year they're asking the village of Ashwaubenon to rezone 9 parcels of land the organization owns next to the stadium parking lot.
The request would switch the land from a single family residence district to a public use district.
“We don't have any plans for any kind of commercial development,” Packers spokesman Aaron Pokey told FOX 11.
The Packers want to rezone the land to build a new parking lot for media. The expansion of Lambeau Field's south end zone is taking over the current media parking. To build the new lot, the team plans to tear down two of the four houses it owns in that area.
The people currently living in one of the homes have been renting the house the past two and a half years from the Packers. They say the Packers gave them 45 days notice of the plan, which was a stipulation in their lease.
Other home owners in the area say they wonder if or when the Packers will be knocking on their door asking to buy their property to convert to parking space. “You don't want to add on to the house, you don't want to upgrade any of the windows or anything like that because you don't know if you're wasting your time or money,” said Van Vonderen.
Ashwaubenon's Plan Commission will take up the Packers' rezone request tomorrow night. If it approves the request, the next step would be a public hearing.
