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Town asks for residents’ input on Plan of Conservation and Development
By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Are you satisfied with the map dictating Wethersfield’s future? Because it’s been drawn, and residents are being asked to weigh in on what will become of the town at a meeting next Tuesday evening. Its formal name is the Plan of Conservation and Development: a document that was first written in 1928 and has since generated the Wethersfield we know and love Volume 53, No. 43
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today. Updated every 10 years, it’s been in the rewrite process for the past year or so based upon the likes and dislikes of town residents and officials, who were questioned in a series of community meetings, telephone and online surveys in the spring. Avon-based firm Planimetrics has been in charge of the revision process and will present a draft of the plan at this upcoming public meeting. “I paid very close attention to what residents told us back in January,” Glenn Chalder, principal of Planimetrics said Tuesday. “I think the draft plan is a confirmation of a lot of things the town is already doing well and a suggestion of some new areas they may want See TOWN, Page 10
Mike Orazzi | Staff
Wethersfield quarterback Zack DeCaro (8) celebrates after connecting on a touchdown pass early in the Eagles’ Thanksgiving Day loss to Newington. See story and photos on Pages 16-17.