Milford planners schooled at meeting
Aug 21st, 2020 · by Delaware State News
"At the city’s Planning Commission meeting Tuesday, committee members went back to school, learning all about how planning affects Milford.
Before Mark Redden, who represents the 2nd Ward, was elected as the commission’s vice chair, Milford’s Planning & Economic Development director Rob Pierce gave a presentation on the roles of the Planning Commission and the Planning Department in the city’s affairs.
“From a municipal planning standpoint, our main function as the Planning Commission, which we did a couple years ago, is to develop our 10-year comprehensive plan,” Mr. Pierce said.
Within that plan, there’s “zoning and subdivision, or land use ordinance review, which is one of the primary functions that the Planning Commission is involved in,” he said, “but we also get involved in code enforcement, capital improvement planning, annexations and, to some extent, regulations involving environmental protection.”
City solicitor David Rutt also contributed frequently to Mr. Pierce’s lecture.
“One of the things everyone really needs to do, sitting on the Planning Commission, is get familiar with Chapter 200 and Chapter 230 of the Milford Code (of Ordinances),” Mr. Rutt said. “Those are the sections of the code you’re going to be working with 95% of the time.”
Chapter 200 contains ordinances pertaining to the subdivision of land."