Beaver Street May Go Two-Way Under Amazon Lot Plan

MILFORD, MA — The Milford Planning Board has given conditional approval to a plan to open two new parking lots for Amazon vans along Beaver Street — and the plan involves opening part of the road to two-way traffic.

Combined, the two lots at 21 and 26 Beaver St. would create about 20 acres of parking space for about 555 Amazon vans, which shuttle goods from the nearby warehouse south of the planned lots off Industrial Road.

In approving the lots, the Planning Board deemed that the property owner must seek permission from the Board of Selectmen to re-stripe Beaver Street for two-way traffic — except for the top 550 feet of the roadway where it intersects with Route 109. The two-way change may go before the Board of Selectmen as soon as the Sept. 28 meeting.

Beaver Street is one-way northbound south of Route 109. The two proposed lots would be located behind the McDonald's along 109.

The new lots are an effort to mitigate traffic along Route 109 heading toward the I-495 interchange, a long-running dispute between the town and Amazon.