The Green Bay Common Council convened on December 2, 2025, to address routine administrative items, zoning code amendments, and significant discussions regarding pet limits and short-term rental regulations. Key debates focused on balancing developer incentives with neighborhood preservation in zoning, the feasibility of an over-limit dog permit appeal involving aggressive neighbors, and the city's approach to regulating short-term rentals (STRs) amid rising housing costs and nuisance complaints.
Note: The transcript lists the meeting date as December 2nd, though the prompt header indicates December 3rd. The summary reflects the December 2nd date mentioned in the speaker's opening.
Call to order the meeting of our common council for Tuesday, December 2nd. Clerk. Yes, thank you, Ron. We have 11 members of the room and 11 members. I'm sorry, 11 members of the room. 12 members in civic floor. Mr. Julie is uh at home and he's attending the meeting virtually. Very good. Thanks, Clerk. Now please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for invocation offered by Alder Hutchison. And to the Republic for which indivisible with liberty and justice. Thank you, Mayor. Um I have words by Robert Frost tonight. Uh he was born a few years after the end of the civil war. He lived until 1963. He was a poet laureate of the United States, uh assigned in 1958. Um this is a very short poem about wood, snow, and sleigh pulled by a single horse. And I always thought of this poem as a Wisconsin poem. He was in the Northeast, but um, so I consider it kind of a Wisconsin thing. And the reason I chose it, it it brings kind of a it'll bring probably a memory to you, maybe that you've gone through in the dark in the snow, and then it calls for action at the end. Okay, so it's not just a quiet poem. There's a call for action. It's called stopping by woods on a snowy evening. Whose woods these are? I think I know his house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound is the sweep of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I'm uh have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep. Thank you, Karen. Thank you, Mayor. Thanks, Alder. Uh now we are on to approval the minutes. Motion to approve the minutes uh from the November 11th and the November 18th meetings made by Alder Prophet and seconded by Alder Stevens. Any changes there. Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Opposed nay. The ayes have it, and the minutes are approved. Approval the agenda. Motion to approve made by Alder Presley and seconded by Alder Prophet. Any changes here. Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Oppose nay. The ayes have it, and the agenda is approved. Report by the mayor. Uh let's have a good meeting. That's it. Announcements.