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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-1 2.0 Planning for Balanced Solutions Balanced Solutions: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2.1 Introduction Advancing transportation projects has moved beyond simply solving for transportation needs. Federal and state environmental protection regulations must be considered, not just those related to historic preservation but also those related to clean air, water quality, migratory birds, wetlands, endangered species, wildlife refuges and noise.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-2 significant, is the historic context used to define the goals and desired outcome, not other goals like beautification, heritage tourism, retaining scenic qualities or economic development. 2.3 Both Perspectives Have Important Roles to Play Both FHWA and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-3 so many of the decisions that will influence the final design are made. When considerations like preservation are not included as part of the desired project goals, or purpose and need state predetermined solutions rather than the problem to be solved, the process of achieving balanced solutions can become protracted with a decision amenable to all parties difficult to obtain.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-4 making process. Goals and objectives serve to refine the range of alternatives that should be considered and as a measure in defining when purpose and need have been met.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-5 Some considerations to ensure that purpose and need narratives facilitate fair and balanced consideration of historic roads in project development include the following: Ensure that the same consideration for a well defined purpose and need statement with supporting goals and objectives is afforded small projects, not just large or complicated ones. Historic preservation cannot figure into developing a balanced design unless it is used as a factor in screening and evaluating alternatives.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-6 preservation. The goals and objectives also need to be defined broadly enough to facilitate solving transportation problems while respecting historic significance.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-7 Defining how the evaluation criteria will be applied can be accomplished in several ways. It can be a formal protocol or methodology stating how preservation and other environmental issues or values will be applied and if weighting or prioritizing factors will be included.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-8 It causes unique problems or other factors; It involves multiple factors in paragraphs above of this definition, that while individually minor, cumulatively cause unique problems or impacts of extraordinary magnitude. 2.6 Using Established Preservation Guidance to Determine Effect and Define Prudence One of the consistently most effective measures of the effect of proposed work on historic properties, as well as its prudence, is The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-9 fulfilling environmental laws and regulations. Since application of the standards addresses the same considerations needed to inform Section 106 determinations of effects, their use as a meaningful measure of developing the final design facilitates efficiently completing the Section 106 effects report, as well as the Section 4(f)
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Chapter 2: Incorporate Historic Preservation from Project Outset 2-10 of their jurisdiction for all types of highways, except those on the National Highway System (NHS)
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