This guide helps communities conserve areas of open space between cities and villages to permanently preserve viewsheds and scenic gateways along road corridors. As part of its new Community Planning Toolbox, the Vermont Forum on Sprawl announces publication of The Roadscape Guide: Tools to Preserve Scenic Road Corridors.
This illustrated guide explains how to:
It also explains conservation basics, explains regulatory tools from planning and zoning, with site plan and design elements and other regulatory tools, and suggests tools to preserve scenic resources.
The Roadscape Guide was produced by the Champlain Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA), This non-profit organization conserved viewsheds along Vermont’s Route 7 corridor, developed a model with tools for land planning and conservation and published this “how to” resource guide to share its approach.
From the outset, CVGA was designed to serve as a model, to be a local resource for a limited time before turning its work over to a like-minded non-profit organization, along the way to create a legacy of conserved roadscapes, and to publish a guide explaining how greenbelt projects can be accomplished elsewhere in the country.
Source: The Roadscape Guide: Tools to Preserve Scenic Road Corridors
Published: January 2007
