33.1-47.1 - Landscape studies for urban highway construction projects.
§ 33.1-47.1. Landscape studies for urban highway construction projects.
Prior to final design of any urban highway funded in part by anymunicipality, such municipality may have conducted a landscape study by acompetent authority which shall assess the effect such proposed highwayconstruction may have on existing trees, shrubbery and other flora and shallmake recommendations as to modifications to such project which would minimizedamage to existing flora. The Department of Transportation shall considersuch recommendations and modify such highway construction plans to protecttrees, shrubbery, and other flora if determined by the Department to bereasonable and practicable. The cost of such landscape study shall be payableby the municipality which initiates such statement.
(1975, c. 555.)