Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning

Are you looking for a way to provide a long-term vision that both beautifies and engages your community? If you are a community of under 10,000 people, we encourage you to apply for Community Visioning, a component of the Iowa’s Living Roadways program. Volunteers and community leaders take part in a series of meetings facilitated by Trees Forever, which lead to a vision and plan to include landscaping along roadsides, entranceways, and trails. Iowa State University organizes teams of landscape architects, student interns, faculty, and staff to assist in creating concept plans that capture your community’s unique attributes and vision. Once completed, Trees Forever will assist you with carrying out your projects.

Iowa's Living Roadway's Community Visioning^TM is a program that helps Iowa’s small communities access professional planning services and allows them to compete for project funding, which they would not be able to otherwise do since they can not afford to have full time staff for such purposes as larger communities often do. 

Who is eligible to participate?

Iowa communities with a population of 10,000 or less.

What are the goals of this program? 

Volunteers are able to integrate environmental stewardship into concept plans for projects that enhance the beauty and safety of the routes they drive, walk and bike everyday.

What assistance or services are provided through this program? 

A facilitated approach to participatory design that encourages visionary and strategic thinking about landscape improvements along transportation corridors.

What is the application deadline? 

Applications must be postmarked by September 15, 2010.

Who sponsors this program?  The Iowa Department of Transportation, the Living Roadway Trust Fund of the Iowa DOT, Iowa State University Landscape Architecture Extension, the Federal Highway Administration