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University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies 25th Annual Transportation Research Conference Session 20: Technologies and Techniques for Public Engagement May 22, 2014 Saint Paul RiverCentre Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Introducing FHWA's New Visual Impact Assessment Process Craig Churchward, FASLA Transportation Landscape Architect Avenue Design Partners
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Introducing FHWA’s New VIA Process
The Problem
The Research
The Solution
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Part 1: The Problem
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How do we make our surroundings aesthetically pleasing?
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B A C D
E F G H
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Most Attractive Least Attractive
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• Landscapes are different than works of art.
• We create and admire art as individuals. • We create and live together, as a
community, in a landscape. • Art, therefore, tends to be more
idiosyncratic; landscapes more communal.
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Systems Approach 1972
Habitat Approach 1975
Cross-Cultural Approach 2012
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Transactional Approach Perception is an interaction between the environment and viewers. As Appleton notes in his The Experience of Landscape: “Dewey’s main message is that beauty resides neither intrinsically in ‘beautiful’ objects nor ‘in the eye of the beholder’, but that it is to be discovered in the relationship between the individual and his environment, in short, what he calls ‘experience’.”
Dewey, 1934
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Visual Resources + Viewers Visual Quality
Visual Quality is simply the value people place on their relationship with the visual resources found in their environment. Visual Impacts are simply how these relationships are affected by a proposed action.
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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT PROCESS 1987-1992
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Whose responsibility is it to ensure that we have aesthetically pleasing surroundings?
• Individuals or Families? • Businesses or Commercial Enterprises? • Neighborhoods or Communities? • Social Institutions and Organizations? • Local, State, Tribal, Federal Governments? • Professional Designers?
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Responsibility and Authority “It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means . . . to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that the Nation may… assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, and aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings.” National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
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• Complex, time-consuming, and difficult to follow
• Inconsistently and arbitrarily applied
• Expert driven with little public involvement
• Not reflective of contemporary research
Issues with the FHWA VIA process
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Part 2: The Research
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Craig Churchward, Principal Investigator Avenue Design Partners, Saint Paul, MN James F. Palmer Scenic Quality Consultants, Burlington, VT Joan Iverson Nassauer University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Carys Anne Swanwick University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_741.pdf
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NCHRP 741 Process:
• State Survey • Literature Review • VIA Document Reviews • Evaluation Criteria • 5 Case Studies • Best Practices
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How can we design our highways and streets to avoid adverse visual impacts to the harmony of the natural environment?
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How can we design our highways and streets to avoid adverse visual impacts to the order of our cultural environment?
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How can we design our highways and streets to avoid adverse visual impacts to the visual cohesion of the project corridor?
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NCHRP Findings: Administrative Best Practices
• Complies with NEPA • Practical, efficient, effective • Scientifically and legally robust • Involves the public • Conducted by qualified personnel • Tailored to any project setting, type, and scale • Contributes to location and design decisions • Provides reference for consistent use of terms,
methods, and techniques
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Part 3: The Solution
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Federal Highway Administration
GUIDELINES FOR THE VISUAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF HIGHWAY PROJECTS
Draft Completed in September 2013
Approved by FHWA Office of Project Development and Environmental Review in April 2014
Publication in 2014
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CHAPTERS Introduction Regulatory Context VIA Basics Establishment Phase Inventory Phase Analysis Phase Design Phase
APPENDICES Glossary References VIA Scoping Questionnaire Types of VIA Documents Field Reconnaissance Techniques Photo Simulations Visual Character Terminology Prepared Statements for Environmental Documents
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Establishment Phase
Inventory Phase
Analysis Phase
Design Phase
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Establishment Phase
Inventory Phase
Analysis Phase
Design Phase
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Process and Products • Determine legal context • Define the proposed project’s rudimentary visual
character • Determine appropriate level of VIA analysis • Define the Area of Visual Effect (AVE) • Establish key views
Establishment Phase
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Process and Products • Determine legal context
• Federal • State • Local
• Define the proposed project’s rudimentary visual character • Scale • Form • Materials
Establishment Phase
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Process and Products • Determine appropriate level of VIA analysis
Local Transportation
Project with Federal Funding (NEPA Triggered)
Determine Need for
NEPA Compliance
VIA not Required
VIA Required Determine Level of VIA
VIA Memorandum
Abbreviated VIA
Standard VIA
Expanded VIA
The new FHWA VIA process includes an initial screening for differentiating the levels of effort necessary for conducting a VIA based on project complexity.
Establishment Phase
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Process and Products
• Define the Area of Visual Effect (AVE) • Physical constraints of the environment Landform Land Cover
• Physiological constraints of human perception Location Proximity Light Psychology
• Establish Key Views
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Inventory Phase
• Affected environment • Affected population • Visual quality
Establishment Phase
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Establishment Phase
Inventory Phase
Analysis Phase
Design Phase
Inventory Phase
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Process and Products • Identify visual resources
• Natural • Cultural • Project
• Identify viewers • Neighbors • Travelers
• Identify existing visual quality and visual preferences • Natural Harmony • Cultural Order • Project Coherence
Inventory Phase
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How can we design our highways and streets to avoid adverse visual impacts to the harmony of the natural environment?
Inventory Phase
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How can we design our highways and streets to avoid adverse visual impacts to the order of our cultural environment?
Inventory Phase
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How can we design our highways and streets to avoid adverse visual impacts to the visual cohesion of the project corridor?
Inventory Phase
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Process and Products: Establishing a Visual Quality Management Plan • Determine Visual Preferences • Establish Visual Goals and Objectives • Instruments to Protect Existing Visual Quality • Strategies for Improving Visual Quality
Inventory Phase
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Establishment Phase
Inventory Phase
Analysis Phase
Design Phase
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Process and Products • Identify visual impacts by alternative • Identify what is impacted and how it is
impacts Absorption capacity of visual resources to
changes in visual character Tolerance of viewers to visual changes Value of change to visual quality
• Rank, not rate, alternatives
Analysis Phase
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Analysis Phase Compatibility of the Impact: The ability of environment to visually absorb the proposed project. Sensitivity to the Impact: The ability of viewers to see and care about a project’s impacts. Value of the Impact: A beneficial, adverse, or neutral change to visual quality.
Analysis Phase
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Establishment Phase
Inventory Phase
Analysis Phase
Design Phase
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Process and Products • Identify mitigation measures
• Avoidance • Reduction • Minimization • Compensation
• Identify enhancement opportunities • Addition of harmonious, orderly, or
cohesive visual resources or views • Removal of disharmonious, disorderly,
or incoherent visual resources or views
Design Phase
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Design Phase
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Design Phase
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Design Phase
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Design Phase
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Design Phase
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