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1 1 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 110
1 2 BY TYRRELL
1 3 A Concurrent Resolution requesting the State Department
1 4 of Transportation to establish a scenic route
1 5 designation.
1 6 WHEREAS, the State Department of Transportation is
1 7 required by statute to prepare a statewide, long-range
1 8 plan for the protection, enhancement and
1 9 identification of highways and secondary roads which
1 10 pass through unusually scenic areas of the state, as
1 11 scenic routes; and
1 12 WHEREAS, the legislative intent governing the
1 13 designation of scenic routes as stated in section
1 14 306D.1, subsection 1, paragraph "c", finds that the
1 15 landscape qualities of unusually scenic routes
1 16 throughout the state have not been protected from
1 17 visual and resource deterioration and specifically
1 18 states that these include areas which pass near the
1 19 state's nationally significant areas such as the
1 20 bluffs of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and the
1 21 Amana colonies, the Herbert Hoover historical site,
1 22 federal reservoirs, communities surrounding the
1 23 state's natural lakes, the Des Moines river greenbelt,
1 24 and the great river road; and
1 25 WHEREAS, when a highway is designated as a scenic
1 26 highway in the department's plan, the scenic highway
1 27 routes are incorporated in state and local tourism
1 28 development and marketing programs; and
1 29 WHEREAS, the route from the Marshall-Hardin County
1 30 line along the Iowa River Valley to Iowa City, through
2 1 Liscomb, Albion, Marshalltown, Quarry, LeGrand,
2 2 Montour, Toledo, Tama, Chelsea, Belle Plaine, Marengo,
2 3 the Amana colonies, and Tiffin, is unusually scenic;
2 4 and
2 5 WHEREAS, this route includes areas of great scenic
2 6 beauty and historical value most particularly, the
2 7 Amana colonies and also including the Amana Nature
2 8 Trail and F.W. Kent Park, the scenic area of Mormon
2 9 Ridge and Three Bridges County Park in Marshall
2 10 County, the Old Lincoln Way through Belle Plaine and
2 11 Chelsea, the Pioneer Heritage Museum and the restored
2 12 1880 courthouse in Marengo; and
2 13 WHEREAS, the scenic quality through which these
2 14 routes pass, needs protection and enhancement; and
2 15 WHEREAS, designation of this route will greatly
2 16 enhance the capability of these areas to attract
2 17 tourism; NOW THEREFORE,
2 18 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
2 19 SENATE CONCURRING, That the State Department of
2 20 Transportation is requested to designate the highways
2 21 from the Marshall-Hardin County line along the Iowa
2 22 River Valley to Iowa City, through Liscomb, Albion,
2 23 Marshalltown, Quarry, LeGrand, Montour, Toledo, Tama,
2 24 Chelsea, Belle Plaine, Marengo, the Amana colonies,
2 25 and Tiffin, as a scenic route.
2 26 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this
2 27 resolution be sent to the Director of Transportation.
2 28 LSB 3443HH 76
2 29 js/cf/24
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