This new resource helps communities conserve areas of open space between cities and villages to permanently preserve viewsheds and scenic gateways along road corridors.

This illustrated guide explains how to:

• Define a study area
• Conduct a visual analysis
• Understand the landscape and learn its history

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. CVGA closed its doors in 2006.

You may view The Roadscape Guide in electronic form, or order a hard copy.

To order a copy of the Roadscape Guide, please send $24.00 (plus $4.95 S&H) to:

Roadscape Guide

Smart Growth Vermont

110 Main St. Burlington, VT 05401