Zoning Regulations

A number of agencies are involved in development proposals:

Land Use From Concept to Open House in Woodstock, CT

ZONING REGULATIONS (revised 10/27/23) identify minimum standards for development, such as the lot density, dimensions, size and setbacks, etc. as well as the kinds of land uses in various zones or districts in town. The Regulations define, describe and provide details on what the rules are for how development must occur as well as well as defining the types of uses are allowed or prohibited by zone/district.

Note: 'Zoning' and Zoning Regulations are different from 'subdivisions' and Subdivision Regulations.

SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS  detail how properties can be divided up into smaller properties for development, in ways compliant with what is allowed in the zone or district the land is located in.

THE ZONING MAP (effective 09/14/14) geographically illustrates the zones/districts of the Regulations.

The Town has four zones/districts in the Zoning Regulations: Community District, Industrial Park District, the Village Green District and the Lake District. 

The Lakes District includes all properties within the following Lake Tax Districts; Lake Bunggee, Quassett Lake and Witches Woods.

The Village Green District is a floating zone, and as such shall be established only after: (1) a zone change and (2) a general plan of development application has been approved for a Village Green Development at a specific location or locations.

The Woodstock Industrial Park District shall comprise those lands specifically described as follows: all those parcels or tracts of land known as the Woodstock Industrial Park, located in South Woodstock, as more particularly bounded and described in the Declaration and Agreement dated March 1, 1973, and recorded at Volume 66, Page 671 of the Woodstock Land Records, and as shown on the map entitled "Plan of Land of the Woodstock Industrial Park Butts Road & Peake Brook Road Woodstock, Connecticut Scale 1" = 100' February, 1973," filed and recorded as Map No. 512 in the Woodstock Land Records. (The properties are off of Crab Tree Lane).

The Village Green District is a floating zone, and as such shall be established only after (1) a zone change and (2) a general plan of development application has been approved for a village green development at a specific location or locations. Please see the Zoning Regulations, Articles III, Section D and IV, Section E (page 57) for more information on the Village Green District regulations.

Please note: The Town of Woodstock does not have any Village Green Districts at this time.