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Fairfax County Architectural Review

Fairfax County tackles head on the problems with subjective tastes:

"The ARB review process does not rely on individual member's "taste." Rather, the underlying principle is to protect and enhance those properties and neighborhoods that have been designated as Historic Overlay Districts by the Board of Supervisors. To do this in an objective way, the ARB has adopted guidelines that they follow to determine the appropriateness of new construction or other changes that they are asked to consider."

Vienna on the other hand does no such thing. Frank Lillis has stated clearly that Vienna's ordinance is "very subjective".

Posted by Historic Vienna Posts on November 23, 2005 03:32 PM |

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