Green Bay staff are recommending 79 changes to the city's subdivision and zoning rules for the sake of housing affordability.

The changes are meant to bring the code in line with the current comprehensive plan and the soon-to-be-adopted one.

The general effect of the changes would be more homes and more people on the same amount of land.

For the sake of housing affordability, Green Bay may change nearly 100 parts of its subdivision and zoning rules in what would be one of the most substantial revisions this century to its laws governing land use and development.

The hour-and-a-half discussion at the Plan Commission's Oct. 13 meeting was jargon-dense, though within the details were consequences for the how Green Bay's neighborhoods would look going into the future.

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