Conservation Commission v. Pacheco

For almost a decade the appellant, Robert B. Pacheco, has resisted the Falmouth conservation commission’s attempt to compel him to rectify what the commission deemed his unauthorized 1990 filling of a “wet spot” on his land lying within the buffer zone to a wetland, in asserted violation of the State Wetlands Protection Act (G. L. c. 131, § 40) and the wetland protection by-law of the town of Falmouth.1 Despite *738periods of apparent acquiescence to the commission’s orders, Pacheco has succeeded in doing essentially nothing, beyond the shuffling of papers, in response to the commission’s almost…