Milford council tables 39-unit Truett Avenue townhouse plan after floodplain, parking and school-capacity concerns

Milford City Council on Monday voted 7–1 to table a preliminary major subdivision application from Carlisle Lane LLC that would consolidate five parcels on the west side of Truett Avenue and create 39 townhouses and one single-family lot.

The council postponed action after a public hearing in which planning staff described waiver requests and the applicant presented engineering details that, the applicant said, avoid placing buildings in mapped floodplain and wetlands. Residents and council members raised concerns about parking, emergency access and the development’s effect on schools and on natural drainage.

Planning Director Rob Pierce told the council the proposal covers a little more than 4.5 acres and requests multiple waivers from the city’s subdivision code (chapter 200). Among items flagged in the staff report were a requested pavement-width reduction for Lilac Lane from 36 to 30 feet, a reduced right-of-way from 60 to about 43.34 feet, and permission to plat several lots whose rear yards would lie in the 100-year FEMA floodplain and within a 25-foot wetland buffer. Pierce said the applicant is also seeking a cash-in-lieu payment instead of on-site recreation open space and that an appraisal prepared May 5, 2025, valued the land used to compute the fee at $520,000; the…