Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency/Conservation Commission

Meeting Information

• 2024 Schedule of Regular Meetings and Application Filing Deadlines for Land Use Board *(NEW)
  
• 2023 Schedule of Regular Meetings and Application Filing Deadlines for Land Use Board
• Notice of Hearings 
• Agendas 
• Notice of Decision (for the 12/4/23 meeting)
  

Published Legal Notices for the past 30 days (Hartford Courant)

 Regular Members

Alternate Members

Purpose

The Bristol Conservation Commission serves as the city’s Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency. The specific powers and duties entrusted to conservation commissions are set forth in Section 7-131a of the Connecticut General Statutes.

In its role as the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency, the Commission has the following responsibilities, as set forth in Chapter 440 of the Connecticut General Statutes:

• To adopt, amend, and administer the city’s Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Regulations
• To hear, consider, and decide upon applications for regulated activities involving inland wetlands and watercourses
• To hear, consider, and decide upon petitions for changes in the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Regulations
• To establish, change, or repeal boundaries of inland wetlands and watercourses as shown on the Wetlands Map
• To take appropriate actions to enforce the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Regulations and conditions of permits
• To determine whether proposed activities are exempt from, or subject to, the Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Regulations

Useful Links 

• 2022-2027 City of Bristol Affordable Housing Plan (Adopted May 23, 2022)
• Zoning Regulation Rewrite Webpage (2022)
• Centre Square Master Plan (March 2017)
• Bristol awarded Bronze Certification from Sustainable CT
• 2015 Adopted Plan of Conservation and Development Homepage
• Land Use Division Homepage
• Land Use Application Forms
• Land Use Regulations and Maps