Common use of Community Values Clause in Contracts

Community Values. Landscape architects assist in integrating transportation needs with existing community goals and values by providing expertise in comprehensive corridor planning, urban design, historic preservation, and community involvement. They also assist in facilitating timely project delivery and building community consensus by implementing principles of community involvement and context-sensitive design, including: • harmonizing the roadway with existing topography and land uses. • preserving and enhancing community character. • meeting the needs of nonmotorized travelers. • preserving historic resources such as historic landscapes. • supporting the incorporation of transportation art, gateway monuments, and community identification. Landscape architects contribute to the safety of the traveling public and highway workers through roadside design techniques that minimize or eliminate worker exposure to traffic. These design techniques can be grouped into three categories: safe facility location, recurrent activity elimination, and safe maintenance access. These improvements enhance safety by placing or relocating facilities that require recurrent maintenance activities to protected areas or to areas outside the clear recovery zone. Typical examples include locating, relocating, or clustering facilities such as irrigation controllers, backflow preventers, remote control valves, ramp meters, changeable message sign controls, and cabinets to areas adjacent to the right- of-way fence or to protected areas. See the Highway Design Manual (HDM), Topic 706, for more information. These improvements enhance safety by reducing or eliminating recurrent maintenance activities such as frequent pruning, graffiti removal, irrigation system repair, herbicide application, and weed control. Typical examples include the following: • Removing plant material that encroaches upon sight distances • Planting shrubs or vines or using textures on noise barriers • Automating irrigation systems • Providing vegetation control treatment beneath guardrails and signs • Paving slopes beneath bridge structures • Paving narrow areas • Providing contrasting surface treatment (paving) beyond the ▇▇▇▇ area pavement • Placing rock or other inert mulch materials • Removing signs that are no longer required These improvements enhance safety by providing maintenance workers with safe access to roadway and roadside facilities requiring regular maintenance and include providing stairs on steep slopes, maintenance access roads, maintenance access gates, and maintenance vehicle pullouts. The Highway Design Manual contains design standards and guidelines concerning the planting and conservation of existing vegetation, the development of highway planting projects, and the incorporation of scenic values in highway design. The manual also includes design standards and guidelines for safety roadside rest areas and vista points.

Community Values. Landscape architects assist in integrating transportation needs with existing community goals and values by providing expertise in comprehensive corridor planning, urban design, historic preservation, and community involvement. They also assist in facilitating timely project delivery and building community consensus by implementing principles of community involvement and context-sensitive design, including: • harmonizing the roadway with existing topography and land uses. • preserving and enhancing community character. • meeting the needs of nonmotorized travelers. • preserving historic resources such as historic landscapes. • supporting the incorporation of transportation art, gateway monuments, and community identification. Traveler and Worker Safety‌ Landscape architects contribute to the safety of the traveling public and highway workers through roadside design techniques that minimize or eliminate worker exposure to traffic. These design techniques can be grouped into three categories: safe facility location, recurrent activity elimination, and safe maintenance access. These improvements enhance safety by placing or relocating facilities that require recurrent maintenance activities to protected areas or to areas outside the clear recovery zone. Typical examples include locating, relocating, or clustering facilities such as irrigation controllers, backflow preventers, remote control valves, ramp meters, changeable message sign controls, and cabinets to areas adjacent to the right- of-way fence or to protected areas. See the Highway Design Manual (HDM), Topic 706, for more information. These improvements enhance safety by reducing or eliminating recurrent maintenance activities such as frequent pruning, graffiti removal, irrigation system repair, herbicide application, and weed control. Typical examples include the following: • Removing plant material that encroaches upon sight distances • Planting shrubs or vines or using textures on noise barriers • Automating irrigation systems • Providing vegetation control treatment beneath guardrails and signs • Paving slopes beneath bridge structures • Paving narrow areas • Providing contrasting surface treatment (paving) beyond the ▇▇▇▇ area pavement • Placing rock or other inert mulch materials • Removing signs that are no longer required These improvements enhance safety by providing maintenance workers with safe access to roadway and roadside facilities requiring regular maintenance and include providing stairs on steep slopes, maintenance access roads, maintenance access gates, and maintenance vehicle pullouts. References‌ The Highway Design Manual contains design standards and guidelines concerning the planting and conservation of existing vegetation, the development of highway planting projects, and the incorporation of scenic values in highway design. The manual also includes design standards and guidelines for safety roadside rest areas and vista points.