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Public comment highlights equipment-storage complaint; council advances four zoning first‑presentation items
Summary
A resident raised a code-enforcement dispute over storage of construction equipment on a residential parcel; later the council voted to move four zoning-related items (including a rural event facility use permit and amendments clarifying parking of commercial vehicles) forward for public hearings.
During general public comment at Milton's April 28 meeting, resident and property owner Ben Kopaka described a code-enforcement action concerning heavy equipment on his residential property and urged clearer rules or exemptions for agricultural/home-occupation situations. Later in the meeting the council approved first-presentation motions for four zoning items, including a text amendment clarifying parking of commercial vehicles in agricultural and single-family districts.
Kopaka said he had been cited in September of the prior year for storing a skid steer, mini-excavator, tractor and trailers. He told council he had invited code enforcement to inspect and had moved the equipment to a legally zoned light industrial property after reviewing the…
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