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Name
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Title
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Term Expires
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Robert W. Boette
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Chair
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May 2025
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Peter Atanasoff
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Vice-Chair
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May 2026
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James Marsh |
Clerk
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May 2024
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Taunya Orlando
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May 2025
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Rebecca Kelly
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Board of Recreation Liaison & Member
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May 2024
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Richard Golemme
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Liaison to Friends of Foxboro Conservation & NRRC
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May 2026
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David D. Opatka
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Open Space Committee Liaison & Member
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May 2026
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MISSION
The Foxborough Conservation Commission is dedicated to conserving, protecting, and preserving the ecological integrity of the Town’s wetlands and natural resources for the common good.
Established in 1961, the Commission is responsible for managing 2,000 +/- acres of land and waterbodies for open space and conservation purposes, accepting gifts of land and money for conservation purposes, maintaining the town’s Open Space and Recreation Plan, seeking grant money for conservation purposes, administering the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (M.G.L. Ch. 131, § 40) and the Foxborough Wetlands Protection Bylaw (Code of Foxborough, Ch. 267), providing environmental education, and advising town boards on environmental concerns.
WETLANDS PROTECTION BYLAW
Foxborough’s Wetlands Protection Bylaw protects the Town’s floodplains, wetlands, groundwater and abutting land areas, by controlling activities deemed to have a significant or cumulative adverse effect upon wetland values. Activities proposed within 100 feet of a wetland or vernal pool, or within 200 feet of a river or stream, are subject to protection under the Bylaw.
Protected wetland values include, but are
not limited to the following:
- Public or private water supplies and groundwater;
- Flood control, erosion control;
- Floodplains (which help to prevent storm damage);
- Water pollution prevention;
- Wildlife habitat, including vernal pools, rare species and fisheries habitat;
- Buffer zones (defined in the Regulations); and
- Open space and passive recreation preservation.