You Don't Need a Crystal Ball to Help Decide Groton's Future

Want to have a say about Groton’s plan for its future?  What the town should look like? How best we should use the land? Our natural resources? What our environmental priorities are? What the coastline will look like? How it will be preserved and managed?

Here's your chance.

The Groton Office of Planning and Development Services holds its second community meeting on the Town of Groton Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) and Municipal Coastal Plan (MCP) on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. at the Town Hall Annex, 134 Groton Long Point Road.

The purpose of the meeting will be to solicit input from citizens regarding the following POCD topics: Economic Development; Parks, Recreation, and Open Space; 
Build out Analysis of Development Capacity; Energy and Sustainability
; Public Facilities; 
and the Municipal Coastal Plan.

Project members will present data and preliminary findings with regard to the above-referenced subjects. In particular, the consultants will go over changes that have occurred in Groton since the last POCD was developed and adopted in 2002. 

Attendees will also be given the opportunity to visit informational tables where you will be able to review more detailed information and submit comments to project staff on these topics. The meeting will be televised on delay by local cable access television.

Resident input will help the Town’s Planning Commission develop draft changes to the 2002 POCD, for later public review and comment. Additional workshops and hearing(s) will be held as the project goes forward.

Information is available on the Town’s website (www.groton-ct.gov) via the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) link on the left side of the opening page of that site. You can monitor the project through this means by reviewing Steering Committee meeting agendas, meeting minutes, project reports and other related materials. 

From this same link, you can also access and/or download a copy of the Town’s 2002 POCD. For more information, contact the Office of Planning and Development Services at 860-446-5970.