Call the Planning Commission meeting for December 16th, 2025.

First on the agenda public comment period.

Thank you, Chairman.

Good evening, everyone.

This is the public uh comment period before the uh City of Milford Planning Commission.

The city has set aside 15 minutes for public comment.

We allow three minutes per person.

If the chair chairman feels it's appropriate, he can extend that time.

Anyone who has wished to speak should have signed up on the comment pad.

We will also check with anyone online when your name is called.

Please come to the podium, give your name, address, and the topic which you would wish to speak.

Uh

it appears that we have one individual signed up this evening, Cliff Mumford.

Uh,

if you could come up and give your name, address, and a topic for which you want to speak.

Good evening.

My name's Cliff Mumford.

Um I live at 500 Marvel Road in Milford.

And the topic which I want to speak tonight is just about generally um what's going on in the city of Milford.

And uh

I

want to thank the planning commission for you guys being members of the planning commission.

I think you guys are doing a good job.

Even though you've you've seen a lot of scrutiny recently by some you know, squeaky wheels in the public.

I don't think it's warranted, and I think it's baseless a lot of it.

So

I just want to put that out

there.

And um, as evidenced by some of the projects that have come through here recently, where you see a lot of variances, you see a lot of waivers that are required to do anything in the city of Milford.

I think it's indicative that there's um work that needs to be done to the city code, and in the subdivision of land and zoning code.

If you look at R1, R2, R3 zoning, and if you

look

at what the existing lot widths are in a lot of those locations, you have a lot of lots that are 30, 40, 50, 60 feet wide, but in R1 and two, R1 and R2 zoning, the minimum lot width is 80

feet.

So why are we taking or making it a leak?

All these houses that are existing,

there

you can't build that anymore, right?

You can't build

a

part of the city that that we like.

You have houses close up, it's walkable,

you

know.

You can fit lots in.

We want to see in fill development.

You know, it's hard, it's really hard to do that.

And there's only a few guys trying to do it right now, and they're getting beat up pretty bad because they're having to come in for waivers and um variances.

And whenever someone does that, they they get the scrutiny of the the public, and the public says, Why aren't you doing this by the zoning code?

We have a zoning code for a reason.

So I think it's it's a symptom of something bigger, and we need to look at our zoning care and just see what we can do to make

it

easier for Dan Bond and the other guys that are trying

to

do in field development.

Like most of the big developers I work with, they don't want to do that kind of development.

So it's because it's so hard.

It's so hard to get it to

work.

But that's what we need more of, I think.