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The Milford Planning Commission held a regular meeting on May 19, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Four commissioners were present: Redden, Salls, Sylvester, and Wright. The meeting included three public hearings for conditional use applications, two new business items for permitted use site plans, a final site plan extension request, and annual officer elections.
The agenda for tonight. Is there anyone online? Is there anyone online who wishes to make a general public comment before the meeting starts? Please raise your hand. Give another call for anyone in the in the room. There's nobody coming forward online. Okay. At that point, we'll close the public comment period and we'll call the meeting to order. The May 19th, 2026 Planning Commission. Uh everyone, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Roll call showing four commissioners in attendance. That is correct. Um Commissioner Purcell, Deacon Stanza, and Hammond are not present. And seeing no minutes, we'll skip over. Next we'll open up the public hearings. I turn it over to solicitor Morris. Thank you, sir. Uh tonight there are three applications for public hearings. I'm going to review the procedure to be filed for each of the hearings. When the planning commission holds a public hearing on a zoning application, they act as a fact-finding body in the legislative process to assist the city council in making its decision. The planning commission will make a recommendation to city council to approve or deny the application. City Council will hold its own hearing, but will consider the planning commission's recommendation. For these applications, the city council will hold hearings on a later later date. Council will make its own independent decision. Millford and its zoning and land use decisions does not discriminate against persons based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability, family status, sex, creed, marital status, age, or sexual orientation. Public comments made on the basis of bias and stereotype concerning people within these protected classes will not be taken into consideration by the planning commission in its deliberations. After each application has been announced, planning director Rob Pierce will review with the commission the pending application. The application the applicant and any witnesses it may have will then be called upon to present and explain the application with reasons supporting its approval. The commission members will have the opportunity to ask questions of the applicant or witnesses regarding the facts and merits. We ask the applicant applicant to limit the presentation to 15 minutes, though leeway will be given if it is a detailed and complicated matter. After applicants presentation, persons 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. Again, commission members may ask questions regarding the facts and merits supporting the comments. There will be no rebuttal by the applicant, and the public hearing will be closed unless the commission wants answers from any speaker on a question that arises during the hearing. Further, the applicant will not be allowed to question persons who speak in opposition. And persons who speak in opposition will not be allowed to question the applicant or its witnesses. All questions will all be directed to me or the chairman who will be conducting the public hearing. 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 of the number of people in attendance, please use the microphone, which can be adjusted to allow everyone to hear you. If you represent or speak for a group or organization, please identify whom you represent. When you make your statement, please be concise and do not repeat yourself. If there is more than one witness for the applicant or more than one person in opposition, please do not repeat points that the prior speaker has already stated. However, you may make a statement to support another speaker's comments.