2024 Plan of Conservation and Development Update
Link: 2025-2035 Plan of Conservation and Development (complete)
What is a Plan of Conservation and Development?
A Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) is an advisory document which provides the blueprint for the future of a municipality, prescribes its goals and guides its future action for the next ten years and beyond. The POCD does not specifically mandate what any Town Commission, Department, or organization is required to do, but instead, provides goals, objectives, policies, and strategies to allow the Town and its various entities to implement a coordinated long-term vision and address multiple aspects of town wide planning including economic development, natural resource protection, transportation, infrastructure, housing development, sustainability, and resiliency. The execution of the POCD is carried out by the towns staff, its boards and commissions, community groups, and private development.
History of the East Hartford POCD: The East Hartford Planning and Zoning Commission adopted the most current 10-year POCD on January 29th, 2025. East Hartford's previous Plan of Conservation and Development was adopted in 2014. The plans have similar structures and include chapters on East Hartford Demographics, Land Use and Zoning, Environmental Resources, Parks Open Space and Recreation, Community Facilities, Historic Resources, Housing, Transportation and Circulation, Economic Development, Special Study Areas, Future Land Use Plan, and an Action Agenda which determines which town bodies and staff are responsible for the implementation plan.
Online Survey 'Ideas Wall': The 2025 Online Survey and Ideas wall responses have closed. The 'Ideas Wall' was an online tool utilized to gather input from the community that helped shape the 2025 POCD. A summary of the Ideas Wall Public Survey responses is included in the following document: Ideas Wall Summary 3/19/24
Document Links:
- 9/13/23 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Kick-Off Presentation
- 10/11/23 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 11/8/23 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 11/28/23 Planning and Zoning Commission Public Workshop Presentation
- 11/28/23 POCD Public Workshop Summary
- 1/10/24 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 3/13/24 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 4/17/24 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 5/15/24 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 7/24/24 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 8/21/24 Planning and Zoning Commission POCD Presentation
- 10/23/24 Planning and Zoning Commission Public Workshop #2 Presentation
- 10/23/24 POCD Public Workshop #2 Summary
Questions or inquiries about the 2025 POCD can be directed to the East Hartford Development Department by phone or email.