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Milton planning commission backs use permit for Ebenezer Methodist’s event facility with stricter noise and traffic conditions
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 4-1 to recommend the City Council approve a rural event facility use permit for Ebenezer Methodist Church at 12900 Arnold Mill Road, imposing changes that set a 55‑decibel limit at residential property lines and require off‑duty officers for larger events.
The City of Milton Planning Commission on March 26 recommended approval of a use permit allowing Ebenezer Methodist Church to operate a rural event facility at 12900 Arnold Mill Road, but added tighter limits on outdoor sound and new traffic controls.
Staff presented the application for a third‑party operated event center inside an existing 23,000‑square‑foot activity center on a 6.61‑acre church campus. The applicant requested a maximum of 300 attendees for events that would use the interior activity center plus an adjacent pavilion and small outdoor seating area. Robin McDonald of the Community Development Department told the commission the site is zoned AG‑1 and lies inside the city’s Rural Milton Overlay; staff recommended approval with standard conditions and suggested hours and delivery windows.
The commission’s change narrowed an originally proposed staff standard for outdoor amplified sound and rewrote a traffic condition. Commissioners substituted the word “area” for “amphitheater,”…
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