Pollard v. Conservation Commission

Acting pursuant to the town of Norfolk’s (town) wetlands protection bylaw and associated regulations, the town’s conservation commission (commission) denied the plaintiffs’ application to build a three-bedroom, single-family house with a private well and subsurface septic system on an undeveloped lot of land. The reason for the denial was that the commission had *341concluded, on essentially uncontested evidence, that the plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate that the work proposed to be done within the zero- to fifty-foot (fifty-foot) and fifty- to 100-foot (100-foot) wetland buffer zones would…