Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor Management Plan Receives Awards from Virginia Planners and Landscape Architects

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April 27, 2009
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Waterford, Virginia — Professional community planners and professional landscape architects across Virginia recently honored the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership with two separate and distinct awards for the Partnership's Corridor Management Plan -- a plan that was developed over 20 months with 60 community-input sessions throughout the Rt. 15/231 corridor within The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area that runs from Gettysburg, PA to Monticello in Charlottesville, VA.

In March, the American Planning Association Virginia Chapter (VAPA) awarded the JTHG Partnership's Corridor Management Plan with the Outstanding Private Sector Plan Award, while earlier this month the Virginia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (VASLA) recognized the Plan in the Planning and Analysis category. Both awards were selected by a jury of professional industry peers.

The JTHG Partnership’s Corridor Management Plan is a collaborative effort involving the communities in the 175-mile National Heritage Area from Gettysburg, PA to Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. Thousands of citizens, developers, elected officials and representatives from the Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Departments of Transportation, participated in the development of the Plan.

“Every community has been engaged -- that's what makes this Corridor Management Plan a true success,” said Cate Magennis Wyatt, president of the JTHG Partnership. “Without their voices, without their vision, without their commitment, this Plan would mean very little. This award is in recognition of the thousands of people and private citizens within this National Heritage Area who participated in this collaborative effort. It is a reflection of their love of and dedication to sustaining the unique historic, cultural and environmental characteristics of their communities."

Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects, P.C., a nationally recognized leader in preparing corridor management plans for the heritage tourism and travel industry culled the information gathered in the public sessions and formally prepared the management plan.

The awards were presented on March 26 at the VAPA annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia and on April 17 at the VASLA annual meeting at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond.

VAPA is a non-profit educational and membership organization dedicated to advancing the art, science and profession of good planning — physical, economic and social — to create communities that offer better choices for where and how people work and live. The VAPA award was one of three professional planning awards offered in the Commonwealth.