At a meeting (date not specified in the transcript), the Norwich Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission approved changes to two previously filed inland-wetlands applications, finding the revised plans reduce wetland impacts and include sufficient erosion-and-sediment (E&S) controls.

Consultant Greg Fettis of Fettis Engineering said revisions to a Canterbury Turnpike subdivision (IWWCC 25-0889) moved houses and septic systems on Lots 5 and 7 away from the 100-foot regulated-review area so that the only remaining impact on Lot 5 is the driveway and Lot 7 requires only a small amount of grading in the regulated area. "We pushed it back. That allowed us to push the house back in the grading and the septic system out of the 100 foot regulated review area," Fettis told the commission.

Norwich Community Development Corporation (NCDC) president Kevin Brown and engineer Jeff Ford (Bowler Engineering) introduced a separate modification to a previously approved resubdivision (IWWCC 22-05M3) affecting 432 Canterbury Turnpike and 180 Lawler Lane. Brown said the applicant shortened the proposed roadway and cul-de-sac to match project budget and to reduce wetlands impacts, and that future lot owners will be required to file separate inland-wetlands and site-plan applications at the building stage.

Jeff Ford summarized the technical change: the previously approved cul-de-sac and associated wetland crossings were relocated and shortened so the new terminus will be less than 1,200 feet from Canterbury Turnpike. "We're losing about 1,100 linear feet of roadway, and we're removing the 10,000 square feet of temporary wetland disturbance, and we're reducing the permanent impacts for this subdivision application by about roughly an acre. It's like 0.97 acres of permanent disturbance is removed," Ford said.

Ford also told the commission the remainder of the previously approved roadway design is unchanged and that the plan complies with the 2024 erosion-and-sediment-control guidelines and the 2024 Connecticut Stormwater Quality Manual. Staff presented an updated memo and asked that standard bullet points and conditions be read into the record; staff advised the commission that the proposed E&S controls shown on the plans are sufficient to protect wetlands as presented.

Commissioners voiced no substantive objections to either set of revisions and, after motions were made, approved both items. The commission recorded both votes as unanimous in favor. The meeting also introduced a new application (IWW25-10, 33 Farmview Drive) and the commission voted to table that application.

The commission directed staff to include the enumerated conditions in the approvals and to forward the commission's report on the resubdivision modification to the Commission on City Plan (CCP) for the applicant's upcoming CCP review. Staff and applicants noted that future site-level submissions will be required of individual lot owners for any additional inland-wetlands impacts or site-plan work.

Actions recorded at the meeting included the approval of IWWCC 25-0889 (Canterbury Turnpike; Lots 5 and 7), approval of IWWCC 22-05M3 (Norwich Community Development Corporation resubdivision, shortened cul-de-sac), and tabling of IWW25-10 (33 Farmview Drive).