What are some of the benefits of scenic highway designation?
Official designation requires a local governing body to enact a Corridor Protection Program that protects and enhances scenic resources along the highway. A properly enforced program can: • Protect the scenic corridor from encroachment of incompatible land uses such as junkyards, dumps, concrete plants, and gravel pits, etc. • Mitigate activities within the corridor that detract from its scenic quality by proper siting, landscaping or screening. • Prohibit billboards and regulate on-site signs so that they do not detract from scenic views. • Make development more compatible with the environment and in harmony with the surroundings. • Regulate grading to prevent erosion and cause minimal alteration of existing contours and to preserve important vegetative features along the highway. • Preserves views of hillsides by minimizing development on steep slopes and along ridgelines. • Prevent the need for noise barriers (sound walls) by requiring a minimum setback for residential development a
