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Council introduces zoning amendments to allow limited ground-floor housing in parts of downtown office district
Summary
The council introduced ordinance amendments (231-264 through 231-268) to permit some ground-floor residential uses in the O1 Office District and to reduce maximum building height adjacent to residential from 40 to 30 feet in certain cases; the Planning Commission and Giffels Webster planner Jill Bain presented the changes.
Milford City Council introduced amendments to zoning ordinances 231-264 through 231-268 to allow limited residential uses on the ground floor in certain parts of the O1 Office District and to adjust related dimensional standards.
Planner Jill Bain of Giffels Webster told the council the changes were prompted by a developer concept presented to the Planning Commission to add residential units to an existing property on Union. The Planning Commission had discussed whether to allow some ground-floor residential in areas outside the main downtown corridor and recommended permitting limited ground-floor units in the O1 Office District and the B2 District outside the special downtown overlay. Bain said the commission also recommended that when an office district borders residential zoning, the maximum building height in those cases should be limited to 30 feet rather than the usual 40.
Bain said downtown Main Street is still intended to prioritize active storefronts, and the proposed amendments are targeted to areas where ground-floor residential would not interrupt pedestrian-oriented storefront continuity. The council moved to introduce the ordinances for further review; a formal public hearing or subsequent adoption steps were not recorded during the item introduction.
