By Theresa Knapp 

Milford officials have been meeting in hopes of amending its zoning bylaws to allow food trucks to operate in town. 

At a Planning Board meeting on March 17, member Christopher Wilson said Planning Board members are working with the Board of Health, Town Engineer, Town Planner, and Building Commissioner on the issue. 

“We are hoping to try to develop some language to try to allow food trucks at Celebrate Milford, at car shows, and maybe any other events,” said Wilson. 

The original intent was to present a bylaw amendment at the  Annual Town Meeting, but it will be pushed to fall Town Meeting. 

“What originally started as something simple got more and more complex,” said Wilson. “Ultimately, we’re still working on it, we’re still looking at trying to finish this up as soon as possible but…it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to make it to this [May] Town Meeting. We just don’t have enough time to really clarify the language, present it to the Select Board, get the public hearing in line, and move it through. We’ll push for the fall.”  

Planning Board member Joseph A. Calagione suggested food truck oversight should not fall within zoning bylaws, but should be a town regulation under the purview of the Select Board. 

“I don’t think we should be regulating it,” said Calagione. “The only reason it got put into the zoning, my recollection, was to stop people from bringing food trucks into the Town of Milford, it was the easiest place to do it. But, if we’re now going to allow them, and try to control them, I really think it should just be a town bylaw not a zoning bylaw and get it out of the Planning Board totally - that isn’t something that we monitor or do.” 

Wilson said town officials are still working through where the control should rest for food trucks. 

To watch the full meeting, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2GvaX5IL9Y.