June 2002:
“New
Scenic Byways and All American Roads Designated”
July 2001:
“Monroe
County, Illinois, Passes Resolution De-designating Scenic Byway”
See Also
Additional Resources
Champlain Valley “Lakes to Locks”
Scenic Byway and All American Road designations
For a packet of background information explaining threats
to private property rights, please send $5.00 to cover postage
and handling to:
Judy Ford
24 Rectory Street
Clintonville, NY 12924
Websites
National Scenic Byways
Federal Highway Administration web site
(The agency that administrates the National Scenic Byways and
All American Roads)
link
Mississippi River Parkway Commission
Newsletter
(The Mississippi River Parkway Commission presaged the gigantic
Mississippi River Corridor proposal, the original national heritage
corridor proposed when the Columbia River Gorge Commission and
the like were in their infancy.)
link
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In-Depth Information
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 “Scenic
Byways Postscript” - By Susan Allen (PRFA, March 2007)
Official publications for the Olympic Scenic Byway in northern
New York reveal that local government resolutions to opt out
were disregarded and that the Byway promotes wilderness values
rather than local tourism facilities. The State’s
regional regulatory and zoning agency, the Adirondack Park Agency,
is making a “Corridor Management Plan”
for the tributary Scenic Byway, the “High Peaks Byway.”
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 “Entering
the Lake Champlain Watershed” - By Susan Allen (PRFA,
May 2005)
During late spring 2004, large highway signs suddenly appeared
that declared, “Entering Lake Champlain Watershed”
and “Entering Hudson River Watershed.”
The federally and state funded Lake Champlain Basin Program,
which already has precipitated the regulatory scenic byway and
many other programs, had spawned the Champlain Watershed Improvement
Coalition of New York, which had the DOT place the signs. All
of the signs disappeared late in the summer!
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- “Scenic
Byways — Innocent Sounding Land Management” - By
Susan Allen, Adirondack Park Agency Reporter, Speech to
Seventh Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights
(PRFA, October 18, 2003)
A succession of interlocking programs and preservation plans
in northeastern New York build a juggernaut of restrictions on
private Property. Included are federal and state Scenic Byways,
Heritage Areas and watershed management.
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- “Bypassed
— Jay rethinks Byways program” — By Bethany
Kosmider, Contributing Writer, Plattsburg Press-Republican,
March 5, 2003 (Reprinted by permission of the Press-Republican)
Lacking adequate information from the sponsoring Adirondack
North Country Association about the proposed New York State Olympic
Trail Scenic Byway, the Jay Town Board voted to decline to be
part the controversial program. The Town Board was concerned
about future regulation of scenic views and more government rules
about aesthetics. They were wary of the Byway Corridor Management
Plan, which was not yet available for them to see what regulations
could be in store.
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- “Signage
issues plague Scenic Byways project” - By Lee Manchester,
News Staff Writer, Lake Placid News, February 21, 2003
(Reprinted by permission of the Lake Placid News.)
A controversy rages over the Olympic Trail Scenic Byway. Judy
Ford, a Clintonville businesswoman, made public a letter from
the N.Y. State DOT stating that a 1991 federal law “contained
a provision prohibiting the erection of new signs adjacent to
any federally funded highways designated as scenic byways.”
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- “Plan for
Scenic Byway in Greene County Arouses Controversy” -
By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, December 2002)
Athens Councilman Fred Dedrick has held up designation of
Route 385 as a Scenic Byway because he fears that property rights
will be infringed by sign prohibitions; a mandated management
plan to be prepared by non-profit environmental groups; new zoning
and land acquisition to protect the Scenic Byway and integrate
it with the County Open Space Plan; and the lure of grants.
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- De-designation of (Meeting of the) Great Rivers Scenic Byway
in Jersey County and Greene County, Illinois
Official Letters - September 27, 2002 to December 4, 2002
These letters document the success of private property rights
activists to get the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to de-designate
the federal Great Rivers Scenic Byway through two counties. “The
MGRSB north of the Jersey/Green County line is now completely
de-designated.” - Don R. Keith, Division Right of
Way Manager, U.S. Department of Transportation, Nov. 12, 2002
letter.
- 1. Letter
from Keith M. Sherman, Chief, Planning and Systems Section, Illinois
Dept. of Transportation, to Don Little, Jersey County Board,
December 4, 2002
- 2. Letter
from Don R. Keith, Division Right of Way Manager, U.S. Dept.
of Transportation, to Linda M. Wheeler, Director, Office of Planning
& Programming, Illinois Dept. of Transportation, November
12, 2002
- 3. Letter
from Keith J. Sherman, Chief, Planning and Systems Section, Illinois
Dept. of Transportation to David Collins, Chairman, Jersey County
Board, October 3, 2002
- 4. Letter
from Don R. Keith, Right-of-Way Program Manager, U.S. Department
of Transportation, to Linda M. Wheeler, Director, Office of Planning
& Programming, Illinois Dept. of Transportation, September
27, 2002
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