ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Some people who live near Lambeau Field say there is a portable toilet problem during Packers season.
On Tuesday night, the Village of Ashwaubenon passed an ordinance to regulate porta potties.
Like so many people who live near Lambeau Field, Chris Christensen parks cars in his front yard to make a little extra money. However, when his customers ask to use the bathroom, he tries his best to direct them elsewhere.
“It’s not real desirable — strangers, people you don’t know from out of town coming in and going in the house. It’s happened. We try to be open to that if it’s something necessary.”
Christensen can only park eight to nine cars on his property, but he’s aware of larger operations that have resorted to renting porta potties to keep people coming back.
“You’re going to see porta potties from August all the way into December or January in some yards.”
“Each time there’s a game, there’s a different issue,” said Village of Ashwaubenon Community Development Director Aaron Schuette.. “Sometimes it’s location, sometimes it’s smell, overall sanitary condition.”
Village of Ashwaubenon officials say they’ve received enough complaints to put the ordinance in place.
For Lambeau Field events with at least 25,000 people, private homes can now only keep a portable toilet on site for 36 hours before the event and 36 hours after it.
FOX 11 spoke with the owner of a porta potty rental company who says he has about 40 private home customers around Lambeau Field during Packers season.
He says, most of the time, the porta potty remains on site throughout the season, and it will obviously cost the customer more if he has to be hauling them back and forth for each game.
Gary Paul, the lone village trustee to vote against the ordinance, wanted it to include a requirement the toilets be concealed from public view, similar to garbage cans.
“But you’re going to have the (expletive) sitting in front of the darn house, and your neighbor is going to call me and say, ‘I’m tired of listening to that house door slam all night long.’
Citations could be issued to violators, but village officials say that would only be in extreme situations, as the goal is just to get compliance.
Click here to read the full ordinance, which begins on page 41.
