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Bayshore Heritage Byway Corridor Management Plan New Jersey L/KLA served as the scenic byway consultant working with a committee representing various state and local governments and civic groups to develop a corridor management plan for the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway. Members of the Advisory Committee represented many different viewpoints, all who shared an interest in the route. The Committee included people who lived or worked along the route, those responsible for its management and those with an extensive knowledge of the history of the area. The byway was designated as a National Scenic Byway through FHWA’s National Scenic Byway program. The byway, located in the narrow Millstone River Valley of north central New Jersey, offers a glimpse into the past where skirmishes between the local militia and British troops played a key role in the Revolutionary War. Attractions along the route include the Delaware & Raritan Canal State Park, the relocated Rockingham site in Franklin Township and the 1860 House near Rocky Hill Township. Click here to read the Bayshore Heritage Byway Corridor Management Plan (includes Appendix) (November 2012) The Bayshore Heritage Byway Corridor Management Plan was the recipient of a New Jersey ASLA merit award in the Landscape Planning and Analysis category in 2019

Strategic Livability Plan for Utah's Scenic Byways and Backways Program Utah’s twenty-six scenic byways play an important role in the livability and quality of life in the many communities that are located along these well-traveled routes. The Strategic Livability Plan outlined strategies needed to preserve and protect the intrinsic qualities along the byways and to enhance economic development for byway communities through ongoing tourism and other community-based and state agency initiatives. The Utah Office of Tourism hired a multidisciplinary team led by Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects (L/KLA) to assist with this strategic planning effort. The plan outlined the best practices for livability and sustainability and identified new and creative approaches to funding enhancements that encourage the many visitors from around the world or around the state to stay longer and spend more time in Utah’s rural communities. L/KLA, working with the Utah Office of Tourism and local Scenic Byway partners, developed a detailed plan for welcoming and introducing visitors to the state and its scenic byways. The plan included short-term and long-term program goals, program funding models, operating and facility guidelines and strategic marketing initiatives. In collaboration with representatives from each of the state’s byways and cooperating agencies, L/KLA developed a new vision for Utah’s Scenic Byways to emphasize collaboration among agencies, byways as economic development tools and as opportunities to increase leverage for funding and financing of related preservation and enhancement efforts. Click here to read the Strategic Livability Plan for Utah's Scenic Byways and Backways Program (November 2015)

California Historic Route 66 Corridor Management Plan Barstow to Needles, CA The California Historic Route 66 Corridor Management Plan (CMP) is part of an ongoing regional and national effort to keep America’s iconic, 2400-mile Main Street, once a symbol of adventure, from vanishing into the past. Route 66 was listed on the 2008 World Monuments Watch to draw attention to the complex challenges of preserving not only an iconic cultural landscape, but an historic American experience. The California section from Needles to Barstow through the Mojave Desert is one of the most unique sections of the route. The California Historic Route 66 Association and the California Desert District of the Bureau of Land Management have teamed up with their local and state agency and non-governmental organization partners to help preserve the history of Route 66 through the desert and develop strategies for educating visitors from both nearby and afar about its significant cultural and natural landscape features. The effort will also look for ways to increase economic activity through enhanced recreation and heritage tourism opportunities for visitors to its gateway communities. A recent economic study by Rutgers University identified significant economic opportunities for small communities along Historic Route 66 through heritage tourism, but these “exciting opportunities for advancing historic preservation and economic development on the Mother Road [will] require enhanced cooperation amongst the various states and entities involved with Route 66.” The purpose of this planning effort is to facilitate the necessary cooperation to realize those economic benefits. Following the adoption of the plan, L/KLA served as a key team member for the City of Barstow’s efforts to utilize their Route 66 heritage to attract new businesses to their downtown. Click here to read the California Historic Route 66 Corridor Managment Plan (May 2015)

City of Fairfax Old Town Streetscape Plan and Standards & Main Street Streetscape Design City of Fairfax, VA The City of Fairfax, Virginia boasts a historic core that includes a National Register Historic District as well as additional buildings and structures or local historic significance. The primary thoroughfare, Main Street, runs through the heart of the historic district and provides access to local businesses while also providing a direct route for daily commuter traffic. The purpose of this project was twofold: 1) to create Streetscape Standards for the public realm of the Old Town Historic District which would serve as a companion document to the private Design Guidelines, and 2) to test the applicability of the proposed standards through the development of 30% complete construction documents for three key blocks on Main Street, between East Street and West Street. Key to the project was the consideration for maintaining the current vehicular traffic flow while improving pedestrian and bicycle safety, comfort, and appeal.Through Working Group engagement, public meetings, and coordination with City staff, the resulting City of Fairfax Historic Overlay District Streetscape Standards outlines new standards and consolidates current policies and practices into a comprehensive document for guiding the preservation, aesthetic enhancement, and improvement of the City of Fairfax’s historic district. The document address elements such as furnishings, lighting, pavement, plants, and identifiers, and makes specific recommendations for their placement within the streetscape. “This document reflects an enormous amount of community input, problem solving, and thinking outside of the box, and it is certainly something we will get a lot of use from immediately and into the future.” Jason Sutphin Division Chief, Community Development Community Development and Planning City of Fairfax

Vienna Town Green Vienna, VA Completed in 2007, the Vienna Town Green is Vienna’s new central park and gathering space directly abutting Maple Avenue/Route 123 and the Washington & Old Dominion Trail. A sloping lawn serves as seating for the new amphitheater and is home to summer library programs, a concert series, and unstructured play space. A separate, formal green is protected by a low stone seat wall. Adjacent to the four-lane road, an extensive plaza serves as the front door to the community and host for many activities. As Project Manager for the Town Green, Ms. Lardner won the project based on her initial drawing of what she envisioned for our urban park at the Town’s core. The initial drawing became the design of the Town Green, capturing everything we had hoped for. The park is a masterpiece of common sense with whimsy and charm built in. In an atmosphere of doubt regarding the development of the Town Green, her calm and graciousness created trust among the Town residents, businesses and elected officials. Because of her ability to bring people together to work towards a common goal, the Town Green is now the focal point of our community.’ We feel privileged to know and to have worked with Ms. Lardner. Her designs are meant to last many lifetimes and to be identifying parts of our community. She is a wonderful asset to all landscape architects and an advocate for community design and involvement.’ Catherine Salgado, Director and Project Manager, Vienna Parks and Recreation, VA. A story in The Washington Post stated "The project will turn on its head the traditional notion of how a community develops: Colonial-era towns rose around their greens, and many Northern Virginia communities have built a town center first and counted on development to follow. Vienna’s green will be reclaimed from the growth that established the 116-year-old town." It is very powerful to create public space right in the heart of the town. Unlike plazas where shoppers rest at malls, the Vienna green is a true public space, reclaimed from the strip and owned by the public. On the site of a former commercial building and surface parking lot, the southern end of the block was reunited with its northern end, home to two historic buildings. Integrating the two seamlessly and creating open space in the heart of the strip - Vienna’s downtown, demonstrate how our suburban-built communities can be reclaimed. Constructed with a limited budget, a passionate client and highly sophisticated community, the project represents responsible stewardship of all resources—living and budgetary.

Cultural Heritage Tourism Heritage tourism is the business and practice of attracting and accommodating visitors to a place or area based especially on the unique or special aspects of that locale’s history, landscape (including trail systems), and culture. Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects (L/KLA) has been helping communities from Connecticut to California in their efforts to preserve, promote, and protect the cultural and natural resources of an area and enhance the travel experience as a means of establishing a nature-based or heritage-based tourism destination We often hear 'we just want to keep our farms, wooded hillsides and small towns just the way they are today.' But keeping a place 'just the way it is today' requires more hard work than accepting change and business as usual. Heritage and nature-based tourism help these communities to preserve what is important while sharing their heritage with those that care most about it. Heritage travelers are interested in history, and experiencing places that are unique, memorable and that cannot be easily replicated. L/KLA has helped communities conserve and enhance the special qualities and develop place-based travel experiences by managing a community or region’s heritage travel infrastructure – its scenic roads, parkways, greenways, trails and heritage corridors and touring routes. Many of these plans focused on leveraging the cultural and heritage resources within a corridor or region, encouraging links and joint marketing efforts between communities and sites to extend the visitor's stay, filling hotel rooms and selling more meals. More than just moving through a community, L/KLA helps communities to share their places and stories—encouraging people to get out of their cars, learn about a community and its stories, linger along its main street, and uncover the hidden beauty and history of an area. L/KLA helps a community or region organize its stories so that they can be told in an engaging and entertaining way– leaving more to be experienced on the next visit. California Historic Route 66 New Jersey Bayshore Heritage Byway Livability Plan for Utah's Scenic Byways Port Tobacco National Historic Site Illinois River Road Corridor Management Plan Update OTHER PROJECTS Management Plans Illinois River Road Corridor Management Plan Update Great Smoky Mountains National Park Newfound Gap Road Corridor Plan Lewes Historic Byway Corridor Management Plan California Historic Route 66 Corridor Management Plan from Needles to Barstow Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail CMP , Maryland, DC and Virginia Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor Management Plan, Monticello to Gettysburg , Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Walton Road Historic Byway, Tennessee Michener's Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway, Maryland's Eastern Shore Maryland Historic National Road Corridor Partnership Plan Update Delaware River Valley Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan , Pennsylvania Religious Freedom Byway Management Plan, Maryland Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan, Delaware Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area Management Plan Consultant, New Jersey Brandywine Valley Byway Landscape Plans, Delaware Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, New Jersey Catoctin Mountain Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan, Maryland Blue Crab Byway Corridor Management Services, Maryland Route 2 Byway, New York Monongahela Scenic Byway Corridor Management Services, West Virginia Palisades Interstate Parkway Corridor Management Plan, New York Route 7 Corridor, Connecticut Salisbury Scenic Byway, Connecticut Route 169 CMP, Connecticut Roxbury Scenic Corridor, Connecticut Sharon Scenic Corridor, Connecticut Collinsville Scenic Byway, Connecticut Savannah River Scenic Byway, South Carolina Lincoln Highway Management Action Plan, Pennsylvania Strategic Plans and Program Assistance Enhancing Bicycling and Walking on Maryland's Byways and Main Streets Oil Region National Heritage Area Sustainability Plan, Pennsylvania Utah Scenic Byways Strategic Livability Plan Maryland Scenic Byway Program Strategic Plan, MD SHA New Jersey Scenic Byway Program Strategic Plan, NJDOT Connecticut Scenic Roads Corridor Management Study Federal Highway Administration National Scenic Byways Program Cultural and Historic Landscapes Rural Villages, M-NCPPC, Prince George's County, MD Flight 93 National Memorial Travel Corridor Study, Somerset County, PA Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville Battlefield Preservation Plan Consultant, Virginia Maryland Historic National Road Model Design Guidelines George Washington Birthplace General Management Planning Services, Virginia Appomattox National Historic Site General Management Planning Services, Virginia Sharon Green Preservation Strategies Laurel Hill's Lindsay and Physician's House Places Barstow Route 66 Specific Plan, California (underway) Fort Ward Park and Museum Area Management Plan, Alexandria, VA (in progress) Kings Highway Design Guideline, Princeton, NJ (in progress) Master Interpretive Plan Rappahannock Station I and II, Fauquier County, VA Historic Dove Bank ADA Accessible Trail Vienna Town Green, Virginia Hindman/Knott County Community Development Initiative--Using our Heritage to Build Tomorrow's Community, Kentucky Washington Heritage Trail Signage and Wayfinding Plan Chincoteague Waterfront Park Fredericksburg Riverside Park Master Plan, Virginia Fredericksburg Waysides, Virginia Main Street Gettysburg Alumni Park, Pennsylvania Apppomattox River Heritage Trail, Virginia New River Gorge - Nuttleburg Historic Site Preservation and Access

New Road Corridor Master Plan Lewes, D E PROJECT OVERVIEW New Road, designated as a Delaware Byway in 2015 as part of the Historic Lewes Byway is an important gateway from the Coastal Highway to the City of Lewes. A Corridor Management Plan (CMP) was prepared for the entire Historic Lewes Byway in 2015. The CMP recognizes the need to retain the overall character defining features of the New Road corridor including its farms, forests, wetlands and tributary streams. However, growth and change are accelerating in and around the City of Lewes. Land use and transportation changes are being proposed throughout the corridor, some of which are imminent. Two large properties, the Groome Church property and Brittingham Farm are currently entering the development process. DelDOT is developing plans for a grade separated intersection for SR 1 at Minos Conaway Road with modifications proposed for New Road that may change travel patterns on New Road. DelDOT is advancing a project to realign Old Orchard Road at Wescoats Corner. Several large privately owned tracts are likely to be developed over the next few years. NEED FOR THE PLAN The Historic Lewes Byway CMP calls for conceptual master plans for each of the three entrance corridors that are part of the Byway. The master plan is needed to coordinate and guide land use and transportation projects to help retain the character defining features of the corridor while making the most efficient use of public and private investments. A master plan was funded and completed for Kings Highway and Gills Neck Road in 2016 and is currently being used to guide land use and transportation decisions in a coordinated way. Similarly, the goal for the New Road Corridor Master Plan is to coordinate public investments and private actions throughout the corridor to guide land use and transportation decisions in a coordinated way. The planning process envisioned for the master plan recommends the formation of an Ad Hoc Stakeholder Committee to identify issues, review preliminary plans and proposals, and provide input and comments on the draft plan. This ad hoc committee has been organized with representation from a broad range of interests along New Road including conservation, owners of large land parcels, neighborhood organizations, businesses, and developers. The schedule at the right provides an overview of the eight month planning process including three meetings with the Stakeholder Committee (SC). Funding for the New Road Master Plan has been graciously provided by Senator Lopez and Representative Smyk. All the stakeholders along New Road express their appreciation for the assistance in this important project. The purpose of this web page is to provide easy access to resources, presentations, meeting notes, draft and final reports utilized in the conduct of study. Do you have a suggestion or idea? Send an email to the planning team: (click here ) Canary Creek Anticipated Schedule Meeting #1: Meeting #2: Public #1: Meeting #3: Meeting #4: Public Meeting #2: Draft Plan Month Aug. 22, 2018 Oct. 24, 2018 Nov. 27, 2018 March 27, 2019 May 7, 2019 June 20, 2019 FILE CABINET : (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD FILES BELOW) NEW: Final Draft Plan Public Meeting #2: June 20, 2019 6-8 pm at Rollins Center, City of Lewes PRESENTATION DRAFT PLAN PUBLIC COMMENTS AND RESPONSE MATRIX June 4, 2019 Draft Plan (open for comment between June 4th and July 8th, 2019) DRAFT PLAN (PDF) - entire document (31 MB) Front Matter (1.1 MB) 1. Introduction (<1 MB) 2. Planning Context (2 MB) 3. Planning Concepts (13 MB) 4. Application of Concepts (12 MB) 5. Implementation (<1 MB) Appendices (1.3 MB) Comment period for the June 4th draft plan closed on July 8, 2019 Lewes Ad Hoc Committee Meeting #4: May 7, 2019 PRESENTATION MEETING SUMMARY Lewes Historic Byway/Ad Hoc Committee Joint Meeting: March 27, 2019 Meeting sponsored by Lewes Byway Committee to gather additional input on proposed master plan concepts PRESENTATION UPDATED DISPLAYS (3-27-19) *NOTE: These are large size display boards (36 x 48 inches) that can be viewed on a screen (file size for each as shown) Corridor Planning and Design Principles (19.9 MB) New Road: Nassau to Black Hog Gut (3.5 MB) New Road: Black Hog Gut to Old Orchard (8.9 MB) New Road: Brittingham Farm/Canary Creek Bridge (7.7 MB) New Road: Park Road to Pilottown Road (5.8 MB) Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities (12.5 MB) Corridor Landscape Concepts (10.5 MB) MEETING SUMMARY Public Meeting #1: November 27, 2018 MEETING FLIER PRESENTATION HANDOUT- VISUAL PREFERENCE SURVEY COMMENT FORM (2 MB) DISPLAYS *NOTE: These are large size display boards (36 x 48 inches) that can be viewed on a screen (file size for each as shown) Welcome Board (3 MB) 1: Regional Context: Active Land use and Transportation Projects (16 MB) 2. Regional Context: Transportation Issues (1 MB) 3. Corridor Planning and Design Principles (13 MB) 4. New Road: Nassau to Black Hog Gut (4 MB) 5. New Road: Black Hog Gut to Old Orchard (12 MB) 6. New Road: Old Orchard to Canary Creek (including bridge) (16 MB) 7. New Road: Canary Creek to Pilottown Road (15 MB) SUMMARY OF COMMENTS (Coming Soon) Meeting #2: October 24, 2018 AGENDA PRESENTATION HANDOUT MEETING NOTES Meeting #1: August 22, 2018
 PRESENTATION HANDOUT (MAP) PROJECT OVERVIEW HANDOUT MEETING NOTES INTERACTIVE MAP View the study area map and leave a comment on the map HERE If you would like to leave a private comment, please send an email to the planning team: (click here ) ADDITIONAL WEB LINKS 
Lewes Scenic and Historic Byway Corridor Management Plan DelDOT Historic Lewes Byway Web page City of Lewes Byways Committee Web page Five Points project Web page Sussex County Planning & Zoning Web page

City of Alexandria Open Space Master Plan 2017 Updated Implementation Strategy Lardner/Klein was selected as project director for the City of Alexandria’s Open Space Master Plan 2017 Updated Implementation Strategy. The plan addresses the ongoing pressure to provide protected open space in a growing community and recognizes the City’s successes to date and the challenges inherent in continuing such successes. Working from the 2002 Open Space Master Plan recommendations, this implementation strategy makes recommendations for the next ten years with actions in support of the City’s desire to maintain appropriate acres of protected open space for its residents. These actions include a focus on data collection and analysis, policy, and opportunities to form and support innovative partnerships between public and private sectors. The recommended strategies and actions in this Update support the fifteen goals established in the 2002 City of Alexandria Open Space Master Plan. Work to update the strategy plan in 2016 included verifying easement recordations, updating GIS mapping and acreage counts, defining active and passive open space uses, defining and mapping impervious surfaces found in the City’s protected open space, performing a Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat (SWOT) analysis, and combining these efforts into a set of recommendations for implementation over the next decade. The plan was adopted in February 2017. A copy of the plan can be viewed from the City of Alexandria's website by clicking here .

Tilghman Village Master Plan, Talbot County, Maryland Talbot County’s Comprehensive Plan Development and Growth Sector Planning Policies called for master plans that describe each village’s character and evaluate the compatibility and suitability of existing and proposed land uses, infrastructure, facilities and services associated with development–mostly infill and redevelopment–within each village. The planning department utilized funding from Maryland DNR’s Working Waterfront Enhancement Grants to support the village master plans for two villages–Bellevue and Tilghman. The DNR program funds localplanning assistance to support traditional maritime uses and the protection of property for public access and maritime-related services, but it also supports the exploration of opportunities for maritime heritagetourism, recreation, natural resources conservation and hazard mitigation within the traditional culture of the historic community. Tilghman’s maritime businesses were specifically called out in the development of the program as one of the areas in greatest need for access to working waterfront assets. The Tilghman Plan focuses on finding ways to support those businesses as an integral part of the village life. Those who live, work or spend leisure time in Tilghman appreciate its authenticity and diversity along with its strong community values and character. However, there are often-competing interests between working watermen and tourism-dependent private marinas, or between long-time residents, newcomers, and weekend visitors. The purpose of the Tilghman Village Master Plan is to balance these interests for the betterment and long-term viability of the community as a whole. Click here to read the Tilghman Village Master Plan (September 2017)

Urban/Community Design Communities where we work attest to our ability to understand and convey the values they hold dear. We understand how development controls can be shaped to result in creative, sustainable, and resilient environments that may be transformed over time incrementally. Working together, L/KLA identifies the spirit of the place and frames it with the community's vision to develop plans and places that can be financed, implemented and cared for by the community, often with limited access to funding sources. We have written design guidelines and standards for urban, suburban and commercial corridors; for management of rural and culturally rich landscapes; for off-road bike trails and wild lands; and for homeowners' associations and single properties. Most all of the firm’s work incorporates a lively and rich public engagement process, resulting in a product that belongs to the community and is not a 'style sheet' plopped in place. City of Fairfax Old Town Streetscape Plan & Main Street Streetscape Design Alexandria Open Space Master Plan 2017 Updated Implementation Strategy Maple Avenue Commerical Code Update - Vienna, VA New Road Corridor Master Plan Watkins Regional Park Master Park Development Plan - PG County, MD OTHER PROJECTS Community Resiliency Planning The following projects reflect our work with traditional maritime communities seeking to preserve their working waterfronts while at the same time adapting to rapidly changing conditions associated with climate change, sea-level rise, and the maritime industry. Bellevue Village Master Plan Tilghman Village Master Plan Rock Hall Waterfront Master Plan Oxford Working Waterfront Strategic Plan Urban and Community Design Vienna's Maple Avenue Commercial Code Update, Vienna, VA Town of Chincoteague Community Revitalization Plan and Design Services Urban Landscape + Forestry Plan, Town of Culpeper, VA City as a Park Parks Master Plan, City of Charlottesville, VA St. Mary's College Pedestrian Safety Plan, Historic St. Mary's City, MD Community Development Initiative Master Plan and Site Development, City of Hindman/Knott County, KY Rural Villages Study, M-NCPPC, Prince George's County, MD Public Participation and Involvement Simsbury Center Design Charrette and Concept Plan Chincoteague Revitalization Plan Neighborhoods and Community Associations Cardinal Forest Homeowners Association River Bluffs Community Entrance Penderbrook Master Plan Streetscape/Community Entrances/Commercial Corridors Route 50 Traffic Calming, Town of Middleburg Kings Highway Gills Neck Master Plan, Lewes, DE Village of Midlothian, VA Village of Ettrick, VA, Community Appearance Manual and Highway Beautification Plan Lexington/Rockbridge County Entrance Corridor Study, VA Sandston Commercial Corridor Laskin Road Corridor Ivy Road Design Study Route 1 Corridor Study Merrifield Streetscape Design Manual, Fairfax County, VA Flight 93 National Memorial Travel Corridor Study Maryland Historic National Road Corridor Partnership Plan Update