NEW: Town Charter
Click here to see our town charter on the State of Delaware website.
Office Hours
2nd & 4th Wednesdays
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Buzz Ware Village Center
2119 The Highway
Arden, DE 19810
Permits, Reservations
Right of Way Permits
(required of all those working in Arden, including county workers and utilities).
Reserve a Room at the Buzz Ware Village Center
Reserve the Field Theater, Sherwood Green, Arden Green, Indian Circle
Reserve Gild Hall (The Arden Club is a separate entity from the Village of Arden.)
Meeting Times?
Curbside Recycling Pickup Has Moved to Thursdays
Click here to see what can be recycled and what goes into the trash instead.
Town Meetings
Minutes of the June Town Meeting and of earlier meetings.
Village Finances, Vouchers
Forms to use for deposits and requests for payment, financial reports, and more.
Election Results
Assessors Election and Budget Referendum of November, 2009
Election Results of March 2009, with Vote Count
Committees and Officers as of 3/24/2009
Cecilia Vore's letter about the election.
Results of the November, 2008 election of Assessors and the Budget Referendum.
How Arden Works
Buzz Ware Village Center:
Instant Ticketing Links
Bob Weiner's synopsis, plus the code and the Instant Ticket Appeal Form. (Eight pages in PDF format)
Article in the Community News about the March 18 public hearing on Instant Ticketing.
Article in the News Journal on April 18.
Complaints at New Castle County meeting reported by Delaware OnLine.
New Castle County Dept. of Land Use: Make complaints, appeal tickets.
Create a wildlife habitat certified by the National Wildlife Federation.
New: What Community Planning discussed in November.
New: The Arden Club Board of Directors voted on Thursday, November 12, to allow the Village of Arden to conduct its town meetings in the Gild Hall without charge four times a year. Previously, the Club had charged half its usual rental fee. Some of the arguments for waiving the fee were (1) that there are few if any paying customers eager to rent the upper Gild Hall on Monday nights, and (2) that the Village does much for the Club for free during the Arden Fair and by providing overflow parking for Gild Hall events, just as the Club provides overflow parking for Buzz Ware events.
New: Assessors Election and Budget Referendum Results: Click here to see who was elected and by what margin each item in the budget was approved. 11/13/2009
Safety in the Ardens: an on-line interactive website to report incidents and read what others have posted. This is something new that we hope will be popular, a way for people to let others know of utopian crimes and misdemeanors in our fair village. [posted 10/1/2009]
Arden, Delaware, has been a Single-Tax, Arts and Crafts, Garden-City Utopia since 1900.
The Village of Arden was founded in 1900 by sculptor Frank Stephens and architect Will Price, with financial help from Joseph Fels, the soap manufacturer. One of 17 land trusts founded between 1894 and 1950, Arden is based on the Single-Tax economic philosophy of Henry George. As a result, a person's house is not taxed, only the land it sits on. The land is owned in common and managed by three trustees. Inspired by the Garden-City Movement, half the land is woods and open space. Foot paths criss-cross the village.
Arden is known for its artists and also for its theater. Stages abound, including two at the Arden Club and one managed by the Village of Arden: the outdoor Field Theatre. In nearby Ardentown, you will find the New Candlelight Dinner Theatre. The entire community is registered as a Historic Place by the federal government, as are neighboring Ardentown (founded 1922) and Ardencroft (founded 1950). This history is preserved by the non-profit Arden Craft Shop Museum, which preserves the Village of Arden's Archives.
Arden in its early decades was the summer home of artists, musicians, theater people and social activists. In those times it had a summer camp atmosphere and the village still feels like a summer camp in many ways, all year long, in large part because of the activities scheduled at the Village of Arden's Buzz Ware Village Center. and by the non-profit cultural umbrella, The Arden Club and its many Gilds. Once a year, the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, the Arden Club hosts the Arden Fair. Also, every month, the Arden Community Recreation Association hosts a family event.
Explore the links to the left and right to learn about the current role of govenment in the Village of Arden.
