Architectural Review Board

Overview

Town Code authorizing Architectural Review Board:
Sec. 54-81. - Established; appointment and selection; vacancies.

The town does hereby create the architectural review board which shall consist of seven regular members and three alternate members to be appointed by the board of selectmen. Regular members and alternates shall serve for a four-year term commencing on July 1 of the year of their appointment.
Members and alternates shall be selected based upon their competence in matters of design, such as architects, designers, planners, or landscape architects, but other qualified electors may also be selected.
The board of selectmen shall have the power to remove any regular member or alternate for cause and fill any vacancy in the board for the remainder of the term.

(Code 1972, § 41-6; Ord. of March 20, 1989)

Materials for pending applications and recent reports have been posted to ViewPoint.

Channel 79 occasionally records meetings, including public hearings; a link to those videos is Darien TV79's Vimeo.

To contact the Architectural Review Board, you can email Architectural Review Board.

Detailed agendas are posted the Thursday afternoon before a meeting date 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 (see Section 930 for sign regulations) and the Commercial Design Guidelines