Plan of Conservation and Development

The Plan of Conservation and Development gets a Green Light

Current Status: The Plan of Conservation and Development is a living and breathing document that is anticipated to be completed in the Summer of 2007.  The Chamber will be involved in the process as the public hearings and committee meetings are scheduled. 

In 2025, Meriden will be a dymanic regional commercial and service hub capitalizing on Meriden's central location.  Conservation and development will be balanced by:

• Conserved areas such as our prominent ridge-tops, our green parks and forested open spaces, where residents walk, hike and bike along clear blue water resources such as Harbor Brook, the Quinnipiac River and ponds and reservoirs; and
• Developed lands that sustain a growing commercial tax base including a segment of competitive business and technology jobs, regional health and other institutions, and attractive and safe residential neighborhoods.

There will be a diversity of cultures in Meriden's slowly growing population; a learning working citizenry that shop and convene together in places like expanded and rejuvinated downtown, where residents and employees can enjoy a pleasing stroll between the historic downtown and the new City Center, and visitors to the mall can trolley to the downtown and Hubbard Park for seasonal activities and festivals.  There will be a balanced range of housing with a prideful majority of homeownership including a larger segment of higher value single detached homes.  Condominiums and apartments will be located near convenient services; their overall quality will be improved as neighborhoods and developed lands like Research Parkway retain their value and new development adequately contributes to quality services and infrastructure.