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Planning board discusses inclusionary zoning, traffic‑study guidelines and postponing joint meeting with council
Summary
The planning board reviewed status items including revisiting inclusionary zoning drafts, moving toward traffic‑study guidelines that require known future developments to be included, and seeking a later date for the planned joint meeting with the town council so the board can develop coordinated talking points.
At the meeting the Town of Middletown Planning Board discussed three status items: whether to proceed with inclusionary zoning, a new draft of traffic‑study guidelines from Crossman Engineering, and rescheduling the board’s planned joint meeting with the town council.
On inclusionary zoning, a board member summarized the concept: when a development is proposed, a specified percentage of units would be required to be affordable. Board members agreed to have the planner bring the prior inclusionary zoning draft to the next meeting for discussion, noting that recent state law changes will require revisions to earlier drafts.
Board members also heard that the planning staff and Crossman Engineering are developing detailed guidelines that would specify what must be included in traffic studies submitted by developers. The stated intent is to require studies to account for known future developments and provide objective, consistent criteria so the board receives useful, comparable traffic analyses.
Finally, board members discussed a scheduled joint meeting with the town council on Sept. 15. Multiple board members suggested postponing until after large public hearings (for example, Middletown Center) so the board can better coordinate comments and present a unified set of topics; the planner was asked to work with the town clerk to propose later dates (not sooner than November or December). The board agreed to add the joint‑meeting agenda topics to the next planning board meeting for preparation.
