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The City of Milford Board of Adjustment met at 10:00 AM on December 11, 2025. The primary action was a public hearing and vote on a height variance application for the Reserves at Herring Branch multifamily apartment project. The board also approved findings of facts for two prior applications. The meeting began with a general public comment period with no speakers.
Meeting to order. We'll go to the public comment period first before we go into the regular meeting. Has anyone signed up? Or is there anyone online? Anyone online wish to make a comment in the general statement period? Please raise your hand. Nobody's coming forward. Okay. Seeing no one will close the public comment. We'll go into the regular meeting. Let's rise and pledge allegiance. All right, we do have a full board members. All our board members are here and the city attorney. So we can move right into the um approval of the previous minutes. Do we have a motion to approve them? Do we have the minutes? Okay. Not in the packet. We'll move on to the public hearing. The first item on the public hearing is the reserves at Herring Branch. Mr. Pierce will explain the applicant's request. Yes, so before I get started, I just want to have the solicitor go over the public hearing procedures. Yes, this is the time set aside for public hearing. I'm going to review the procedure to be filed for each of the hearings. When the Board of Adjustment holds a public hearing on a zoning application, they engage in alleged slave process. Public comments made on the basis of bias and stereotype concerning people within those protected classes will not be taken into consideration by the Board of Adjustment. After each application has been announced, uh planning director Rob Pierce will review with the Board of Adjusting the pending application. The applicate applicant and any witnesses it may have will then be called to present and explain the application with reasons supporting for its approval. The Board of Adjustment will have an opportunity to ask questions of the applicant or witnesses. We ask the applicant to limit the presentation to 15 minutes, though leeway will be given if it's a detailed and complicated matter. After the applicant's presentation, persons who are in favor of the application, and then those who oppose the application will be given an opportunity to speak, followed by anyone who may have comments in general. We ask anyone speaking at these times to limit comments to three minutes. There will be no rebuttal by the applicant and the public hearing will be closed unless the board of adjustment wants answers from any speaker on a question that rises during the hearing. Further applicant will not be allowed to question persons who speak in opposition. Persons who speak in opposition will not be allowed to question the applicant or its witnesses. All questions should be directed to the chairperson of the board of adjustment. If you intend to speak, please come to the front and stand at the podium, state your name and home address before you make your statement. Because there may be number of people speaking. Again, uh keep your uh statements concise. If you represent or speak for a group or organization, please identify when you uh whom you represent. If you make your statement, please be uh concise and and not repeat yourself. There's more than one person in favor of the application or more one person in opposition. Please do not repeat points that a prior speaker has already stated. However, you may make a statement to support another speaker's comment. Have your thoughts organized because you will only be permitted to speak one time unless being asked to answer a question. All persons in the tenants should conduct themselves in an orderly fashion. No applause, no cheers, no jeers, or other disruptive behavior that will prolong the hearing or negatively affect the record being made.