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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-1 1.0 Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1.1 Introduction Many types of roads, from the unpaved, 18th century Albany Post Road in Putnam County, New York, to America‘s first superhighway in New Jersey, are valued historic properties significant in American history as are roads that contribute to the historic significance of their setting, like city streets in architectural historic districts or an unimproved road in a rural historic district like Green Springs in Louisa County, Virginia. Historic roads have been part of the transportation project development process since 1966 and passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-2 accommodate both perspectives. In order to be immediately useful, this guidance is applied to the current planning and project development process used by transportation agencies that are advancing work using federal funds or permits.
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-3 The basis for flexibility in selecting design criteria has also been synthesized in National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transportation Research Board (TRB)
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-4 significant features. These two definitions are considerably different.
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-5 broad to provide the flexibility to accommodate using professional judgment to match individualized solutions with site specifics to achieve an efficient contemporary use. In addition to the flexibility in the policies, manuals, criteria, and standards that underlie the planning and project development process, there are a variety of means to encourage its use.
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-6 affect the outcome of a project than by maintaining history, like mitigation measures rather than preservation of significance. 1.3.5 Understand and Respect Other Disciplines Outcomes that balance sound engineering with preservation of historic significance are most easily achieved when each perspective starts with respect for the mission and the concerns of others along with a well founded understanding of their policies and criteria.
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-7 narrative that memorializes other desirable outcome(s) such as preservation of significant features; and (3)
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-8 Use Understanding of What Underlies 13 Controlling Design Criteria to How to Balance Sound Engineering with Preservation Understanding how streets and highways are designed plays a significant role in successfully developing a plan for preserving them. Productive collaboration is linked to understanding what underlies the policies and the practices of other perspectives involved in the design process and then using that data set to create solutions that meet engineering and preservation objectives.
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Chapter 1: Preserving Historic Roads: Starting Out in the Right Direction 1-9 that potentially can preserve historic significance and meet transportation need(s)
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