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Town Scenic Roads
The Town Scenic Highway Statute authorizes a town's legislative body to adopt a scenic road ordinance to protect its town roads from improvements that would impair their scenic character. An ordinance would:
- designate specific town roads or portions or roads as scenic and/or designate the power to designate scenic roads to the Planning Commission or Planning and Zoning Commission, prescribing the criteria for designation, and
- specify what alterations or improvements are prohibited or permitted under certain conditions for designated scenic roads
There is a considerable variety among the ordinances that have been adopted by the 39 towns to date: Ashford, Bethany, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Coventry, Danbury, Easton, East Haddam, Essex, Fairfield, Falls Village, Granby, Greenwich, Groton, Guilford, Hamden, Harwinton, Kent, Killingly, Killingworth, Lebanon, Ledyard, Mansfield, New Milford, Newton, North Stonington, Norwalk, Redding, Ridgefield, Sharon, Shelton, Sherman, Simsbury, Southbury, Stonington, Wallingford, Wilton, Woodbury and Woodstock. Some recommended publications relating to the preservation of historic and scenic roads include Design Guidelines for Rural Roads(1998), prepared by the Dutchess Land Conservancy and Saving Historic Roads, Design & Policy Guidelines (1997), by Paul Daniel Marriott. Yoy may also get more information by selecting from one of the resources below.
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| Woodstock Scenic Road Criteria Scenic Road Inventory for Housatonic Valley -Includes Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, and Sherman. Sherman, Scenic Road Ordinance |
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