A LOOK DOWN THE ROAD – Pennsylvania State Byway MeetingSeptember 12, 2007

Assessing your Resources through a Byway

Corridor Management PlanByways in a

general sense

My Goals today:

To expose you to a few principles and details of corridor management planning

To have you honestly assess why you want to do a CMP.

To give you resources where you can find more information.

To keep the discussion moving, on-time, light in nature and engaging.

Byways in a general sense

We will accomplish these goals by discussing the following:

1. What are your perceptions of CMP’s?

2. What is a CMP?

3. How you could do a CMP?

4. Why would you do a CMP?

Byways in a general sense

Our Discussion Today

WHAT? HOW? WHY?

Byways in a general sense

Your Perceptions………

What do you think a CMP really is?

Why would you do a CMP?

Byways in a general sense

WHATWHAT is a CMP?

What it’s not?

ROCKET SCIENCE

Definitions…………..

Corridor Management can be defined as the application of multiple strategies to achieve specific land development and transportation objectives along segments of a corridor.

(Corridor Management: A Synthesis of Highway Management, National Cooperative Highway Research Program)

Definitions…………..

A document of ideas for enhancement of the highway and for community development associated with the highway’s different roles…………

(State Route 105 Corridor, Washington state)

Definitions…………..

…..a tool for local governments and citizens along the byway. Its purpose is to identify the key features along the byway and methods to enhance and promote those features over time……it clarifies how local citizens will assume responsibility for the long-term management and promotion of the byway's key features.

Alaska State Byways Program

One last Definition…………..

The Corridor Management Plan (CMP) is a living process that looks at the current conditions of the scenic byway, takes into account the community values, and draws a map to bring the community goals to fruition.

Turquoise Trail NSB, New Mexico

The Lesson…………..

There is not one perfect definition or model for a CMP.

But that’s the beauty of a CMP…..It’s up to YOU to define the details

of your plan.

BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER…….

Consult the Federal Register regarding the National Scenic Byways Program and the fourteen (14) or (17) elements:

National Program processes

The fourteen elements …….

1. Map

2. Assessment of IQ’s

3. Strategies for maintaining IQ’s

4. Schedule and responsibilities

5. Plan for development

6. Plan for Public Participation

7. Review of safety

8. Plan to accommodate commerce

9. Mitigation of negative effects of added visitors

10. O.A Compliance

11. Plan for signage

12. Plan for Marketing

13. Plan for design standards

14. Plan for interpretation

National Program processes

HOW HOW could you create a CMP?

4 Questions Your CMP Should Answer:

1. What are the Byway’s Conditions Now?

2. What are our goals and vision for the Byway’s Future?

3. What specific and measurable Objectives will move us toward achieving those goals?

4. Of these Objectives, which specific Actions should we take now and which should be started in the future?

1. What are the Byway’s Existing Conditions Now:

A. The Roadway ItselfB. Management and RegulationsC. Intrinsic Qualities (Resources)D. Tourism and Economic DevelopmentE. Others

Inventory any items relating to the topics above, but especially your relevant IQ’s.

Intrinsic Qualities

Scenic – All of the elements of the landscape that influence scenic quality.

National Program processes

Intrinsic Qualities

Natural - Features that are visible and relatively undisturbed by human influence.

National Program processes

Intrinsic Qualities

Recreational – Active and passive recreation opportunities that relate to the byway.

National Program processes

Intrinsic Qualities

Historic - Historic features that create a story with continuity and coherence.

National Program processes

Intrinsic Qualities

Archeological – Evidence of historic or prehistoric life that can be inventoried and interpreted.

National Program processes

Intrinsic Qualities

Cultural - Culture encompasses all aspects of a community’s life such as traditions, food, and music, that influence the byway character.

National Program processes

Resources:

Inventorying Byway Resources Table format Map and Table Textual with bullets Pictures w/ text

More on Resources:

# Name Location Historic Value Ownership Significance

More on Resources:

General description in text of the assets for 5 of 6 Intrinsic Quality Resources

Then………

Very detailed tables of the resources from that ONE INTRINSIC QUALITY that really defines the byway.

2. Establish Vision and Goals:

Goals: Idealistic, ambitious, and broad in scope.

Solicit input from the community Think the ‘Impossible’ Keep a sense of the future

2. Establish Vision and Goals:

Examples: A Vision for the Scenic Byway

The Byway represents the willingness and ability of communities, public agencies, and private organizations to work together on economic development and conservation issues.

2. Establish Vision and Goals:

Examples: A byway CMP starting with a description of their niche…….

The niche of our byway will be a diversion from the crowd and the hustle of 21st Century. Over the least-traveled and most rustic pass, one can find a “natural high.” Whether for pleasure, or using the corridor as the vacation destination, the natural character dominates. The scale and character are more intimate and less crowded…..Perhaps this provides an incentive to drive slower, stay alert, or return to drive it again. …..this byway is unique from its neighbors. All of these highways travel through bigger landscapes with open and expansive views, beautiful and grand in their own right, where as our byway maintains a more intimate feel further removed from development and people.

2. Establish Goals:

Examples: Sample Goals

Goal 1. Protect and Enhance Scenic, Historical, and Natural Resources.

Goal 2. Insure Health and Safety for Movement Along the Byway

Goal 3: Promote Community Support and Participation in the Acadia Byway

Goal 4: Promote Education on the Need for Resource Protection and Preservation

Goal 5: Promote Sustainable Economic Development and Tourism Management

Suggested Activity: Define the Character of your Byway

1. Describe the overall impression

2. List the Treasures

3. Relate the Assets to one another

4. Evaluate the direction of Change

5. Ask what would be lost is these assets were gone?

See Handout for more details………..

3. Formulate Objectives

Objectives: Realistic and specific about how to achieve your goals.

1. The Roadway

2. Management & Regulations

3. Intrinsic Qualities

4. Tourism and Economic Development

4. Your Action Plan

A. Rate each objective by its need

B. Set a time frame for your objectives

B. Set a rough price tag for each

C. Set responsibilities

Need Assistance?

GOALS, OBJECTIVES, MISSION, VISION, STRATEGIES, PLANS………….. What does it all mean? How do I keep it all straight?

Consult: Making the Grassroots Grow: Building and Maintaining Effective Byway Organizations, CDs Available

Another Conceptual How-to:

VISION

Evaluation

Implementation

Strategies

IQ’s

Stakeholders

Location

Why do you want to become a byway?

Where is your byway? Map it.

Who’s involved and how are they involved? Advocates, Adversaries, public, stakeholders etc.

Inventory them, Describe them, Impact from and to Visitors.

What is needed? Conservation, preservation, promotion, planning, protection.

What, When, Who

Is the plan working, monitor, is the plan effective?

If you want an insurance policy to protect against failure then……

Actively involve the stakeholders and partners!!!!

A word on stakeholders……….

Public participation, citizen involvement stakeholder input….

It needn’t feel like this…….

RAINMAKERS………….

You need to know who the rainmakers are? You need to involve them. You need to work with them. You need to arrive at Informed Consent

Informed Consent?

15 Citizen Participation Objectives– Establish Legitimacy for yourself and project– Get to see project through their eyes– Get to know the PAI’s (Stakeholders)– Protect your credibility

More Information:– The Citizen Participation Handbook (IPMP)

www.consentbuilding.com– Community Involvement Toolbox for Public

Participation

WHY?WHY?

PA BYWAYS & CMP’S

PA BYWAYS & CMP’S

• Are not required for PA Byway Designation

• PA encourages PA Byways to develop a CMP to maintain and sustain the byway.

• Are required to seek National Designation.

# of CMP’S developed in PA

1. Historical National Road (State and All-American Byway)

2. Seaway Trail (State and National Scenic Byway)

3. Grand View (State Byway)

4. Kinzua (State Byway)

Sources of Funding for developing CMP’s

• National Scenic Byway Program Grants– Available for all state designated byways– Cycle- Annually– Match- 80% FHWA 20% Local 

• Metropolitan Planning Organizations/Rural Planning Organizations

• State- PennDOT– Available on a case by case basis

Amount of Funding Received from National Scenic Byways Grants

Funding Amt. Byway

$109,000.00 Delaware River Valley Scenic Byway

$120,000.00 PA Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway