A Community Information Zoning Meeting, or CZIM, will be held Tuesday to give citizens the opportunity to engage with City staff on four potential City Code text amendments.

The October 28 meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in City Hall’s Council Chambers (2006 Heritage Walk). All are welcome to attend.

Unlike City Council and committee meetings, no presentations are given, votes taken, or official recommendations made at CZIMs. Instead, these meetings allow people to ask questions to and share their opinions with City staff about specific matters. Those under consideration Tuesday will later be taken up by the Planning Commission (on November 20) and City Council (January 5, 2026), both of which are also open to the public.

The items that are focal points of Tuesday’s CZIM are:

• Agenda Item RZ25-08 -- Text amendment to Sec. 3.1.4 Building Placement with respect to setbacks in the AG-1 district and Sec. 8.8.19.B.2. and Article 13 Definitions in order to add setbacks for qualified subdivisions and pools.

  Within qualified subdivisions, this would require 50-foot building front yard setbacks from the street and 60-foot building setbacks from the rear of the property. (This would flip the current requirements of 60-foot front yard and 50-foot rear yard setbacks.) It would also increase the minimum setbacks for pools, pool decks, and equipment from 10 to 20 feet.

  These changes aim to preserve more tree canopy. They’d apply to qualified neighborhoods of 30 or fewer lots, with each parcel being less than three acres with a single access point in and out.

   

• Agenda Item RZ25-09 -- Text Amendments to the Unified Development Code for the City of Milton, Georgia.

  This would create new sign standards for the recently created Arnold Mill Overlay District in southwestern Milton. The standards would mirror those now in the Birmingham Crossroads Overlay District.

   

• Agenda Item RZ25-10 -- Text Amendment to Sec. 6.5.3.B. to modify AG-1 Standards in the Arnold Mill Road Hamlet Overlay.

  This text amendment also pertains to the Arnold Mill area, stemming from the Arnold Mill Small Area Plan. (You can learn more about that project at www.miltonga.gov/ArnoldMill.) It would provide added flexibility regarding lot widths for newly developed parcels adjacent to State Route 140/Arnold Mill Road. With this text amendment, a 100-foot undisturbed buffer adjacent to Arnold Mill Road would (still) be required.

   

• Agenda Item RZ25-11 -- Text Amendments to the Unified Development Code for the City of Milton, Georgia.

This would allow food trucks to operate in Milton on a very limited basis – specifically on the same property of an active restaurant with a current occupational tax certificate (aka business license). The proposed language includes standards for parking, setbacks, licensing, signage, and hours of operation for such self-contained food trucks, which would be classified as accessory structures. (Currently, food trucks can only operate within city limits if associated with a City-sponsored event.)