Environmental Protection Commission

Overview

Sec. 22-22. - Membership. The environmental protection commission shall consist of seven regular members who shall be electors of the town, and of the following nonvoting ex-officio members: the first selectman of the town, the superintendent of public works, and the chairman of the planning and zoning commission. An ex-officio member can be represented by a designee. (Code 1972, § 10-2; Ord. of May 19, 1986).

Materials for pending applications and recent actions can be found at the View Point Cloud website.

Meetings

• 7:00 p.m.
• 1st Wednesday of every month 
• Town Hall
  Room 206

Channel 79 occasionally records public hearings; view the list of videos online.

Detailed agendas are available the Thursday afternoon before a meeting in the Agenda Center and on the Town Calendar.

• We no longer use printed  Application Forms, but rather have applications completed entirely online. Our online permitting system can be found in ViewPoint.
• 2024 Calendar
• Application Fees (in effect as of June 11, 2023).
• 2016 Town Plan of Conservation and Development Adopted by the Commission in June 2016.
• Links to the Darien Zoning Regulations 

Members

3-year term

• Eric Joosten (R), Chairman - Expires June 30, 2024
• James Millard (R), Vice Chair - Expires June 30, 2022
• Michael Ervin (U) - Expires June 30, 2022
• William Wright (R) - Expires June 30, 2024
• Peter McGuinness (U) - Expires June 30, 2023
• Carolyn Bayne (D) - Expires June 30, 2024
• Lauren Rossi (D) - Expires June 30, 2024

Ex-officio Members

View the Section 22-22 of the Town Code of Ordinances

• Jon Zagrodzky, First Selectman
• Edward L. Gentile, Jr., P.E., Public Works Director
• Stephen Olvany, Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission

Important Invasive Plant Resources

• UCONN Invasive Plant List
• Mobile Apps for Invasive Plant Identification
• Photos of Invasive Plants (PDF)
• CT DEEP Invasive Plant Resource Page

Abutters Tool

Link to help you prepare a list of neighbors within 100 feet of your property: Abutter's Tool.
You should check this information with the Assessor's Office to ensure that you have the most recent and up-to-date information. The information on the web was last updated January 3, 2023 for both parcel mapping and ownership data.