Hearing On Proposed Milford Wholesaling Facility May Be Delayed

MILFORD, MA — Residents wanting to know more about a proposed 192,000 square-foot wholesaling facility near 460 East Main St. will likely have to wait until April.

The developer behind the project — a company tied to car dealership owner Kevin Meehan — has asked to postpone a public hearing on the project set for Tuesday's Milford Planning Board meeting until the April 16 meeting.

An attorney representing developer Route 85 Corp. asked for the delay because an independent traffic study of the project won't be available by Tuesday. The developer submitted its own traffic study to Milford last fall, which described the project as:

A "191,700 sf wholesale with storage facility. The facility would provide 160 parking spaces, 41 loading docks, and 41 trailer parking spaces. Two-way circulation would be provided throughout the site. Access to the site would be provided via two full-access driveways on a new access roadway located on East Main Street (Route 16) approximately 350 feet south of Whispering Pine Drive."

But the town wants to hire the firm Green International Affiliates to review the developer's traffic study. The developer has agreed to pay for the $10,100 traffic study peer review, according to minutes from the March 5 meeting.

The area around 460 East Main Street is zoned as a business park use. Wholesaling with storage is allowed in that zone under town bylaws with approval of the zoning board. The development would take over a mostly wooded parcel along Route 16 near Whispering Pine Drive.