Milford Planning Board Pulls Food Truck Bylaw From Spring Town Meeting Agenda

MILFORD -- March 17, 2026, Milford Planning Board shelves food truck bylaw from spring Town Meeting, questions whether zoning is the right framework. The board, meeting March 17, reached informal consensus that mobile food vending at events like Celebrate Milford and the Tuesday night bandstand should be governed by a general town bylaw administered by the Select Board rather than a zoning bylaw enforced by the Planning Board, a view articulated by a member identified as Joe, who argued the original restriction "was the easiest place to do it" and was never designed as a regulatory framework. A working group that includes Building Commissioner John Erickson and Board of Health representative Amanda Wilson will continue refining language, with fall Town Meeting now the target. Separately, the board unanimously authorized its chair to sign a letter of support for the town's MVP Action Grant FY27 application, a community resilience grant that would fund a coordinator position and park improvements at what the town planner believed to be the Pearl Street park. Two public hearings on zoning bylaw amendments under Sections 2.5 and 2.4.8 were pulled after the town planner missed a 14-day Form 7 posting requirement in the Town Clerk's office.