What is the process for including landscape and aesthetics in highway design?
Step 1 – Master Planning. Set statewide policy and establishes the guidelines and process for incorporating landscape and aesthetics into highway design. The Nevada Department of Transportation adopted a Landscape & Aesthetics Master Plan in 2002. Step 2 – Corridor Planning. Provides a management tool for determining levels of landscape and aesthetics treatments and develops priorities and budgets for incorporation into the State highway system. The corridor planning process is currently underway for nine (9) of Nevada’s eleven (11) corridors. Step 3 – Project Design. Site specific planning. Step 4 – Construction, Operations and Maintenance. Project installation that responds the design intent outlined in the corridor plan.
