Milton’s Design Review Board will meet Tuesday night to consider a demolition request and to conduct several courtesy reviews involving existing accessory structures.

The December 3 meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in City Hall’s Council Chambers. All are welcome to attend in-person or watch the meeting online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7UnEbfZmLE.

Referred to as the DRB, the Design Review Board consists of seven individuals appointed by Milton’s Mayor and Councilmembers. It is part of the public hearing process – so other committees may consider the same items – and reviews plans for new construction, new site development, and certain significant alterations to existing structures. The board also votes on approving or denying demolition proposals.

The DRB on Tuesday will take up one such demolition request pertaining to 16115 THOMPSON ROAD, a 1.51-acre property at the Francis Road intersection. The applicant, who is in the process of building a single-family home, is requesting the demolition of a one-story frame detached garage and a wood barn.

The committee then will conduct two sets of courtesy reviews.

The first is for 13488 HOLLY ROAD, a nearly 4-acre property accessible off Arnold Mill Road in southwestern Milton. The applicant there is seeking three variances:

• To allow a decades-old accessory structure to remain in front of an existing single-family home
• To reduce the side-yard minimum (from the south property line) for that accessory structure from 25 feet to 10 feet
• To reduce the minimum for a rear yard between the existing single-family home and (in this case, east) property line from 50 feet to 47.1 feet

The other courtesy review pertains to a 22.75-acre farm at 345 RANCHETTE ROAD, which intersects State Route 140/Arnold Mill Road. The owner plans to build a primary single-family home on this property that’s set back from the state route.

One of the variance requests would be to allow five existing accessory structures – which are used for the temporary shelter and feeding of livestock, as well as to store equipment – to be in front of the proposed new home.  The other two refer to possible variances so side-yard setbacks for two accessory structures can be below the current 25-foot minimums – one down to 14.96 feet adjacent to the west property line, the other to 18.7 feet adjacent to the west property line.

The Tuesday meeting’s final agenda item will go over the Design Review Board’s calendar for next year.