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Michener’s Chesapeake Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan
…What are the Steps Involved in Creating a CMP?
1. Vision and Goals (May 2010)Public Workshop - June 22 and 24
Are we headed in the right direction?2. Preservation and Conservation (July 15)3. Enhancement Strategies (Sept 23)4. Heritage Tourism Strategies (Oct 21)5. Interpretive Development (Nov 18)6. Road and Right-of-way (February 9, 2011) Public Workshop - Did we get it right?
(July 26, 27 and August 4)7. Draft Plan Review and Implementation
www.lardnerklein.com/mcsb_index.htm
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
… existing interpretive themes
Telling the Byway’s Story
… some of these stories are told in your small museums
Telling the Byway’s Story
“Emerging Sites”
Telling the Byway’s Story
Five Goals for the Byway
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway
Preserve and conserve the character of the Byway’s historic sites, landscapes, towns and shorelines.
Provide a distinctive and compelling travel experience Use the Byway as tool to extend visitor stays Expanding the range of things to see and do on the
Eastern Shore for both visitors and residents Accommodates the wide range of needs for all
roadway users while maintaining the character defining features of the Byway context.
GOAL 1: Preserving and Conserving the Byway’s Character
Preserve and conserve the character of the Byway
Goal: provide a distinctive and compelling travel experience
GOAL 2: Enhancing the Byway
Destinations in Communities
GOAL 2: Enhancing the Byway
Visitor Facilities: Destinations at the End of Branches
GOAL 2: Enhancing the Byway
Opportunities for Enhancement …
Industrial and Commercial Sites
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GOAL 3: Marketing Heritage, Nature-based, and Agri-tourism
Goal: Use the Byway as tool to extend visitor stays
GOAL 4: Telling the Byway’s Stories
Goal: Expand the range of visitor facilities
Michener’s Chesapeake and Other Supporting Stories
GOAL 4: Telling the Byway’s Stories
• Set the Stage for Flexibility• Select Relevant Guidelines• Improve Safety AND Preserve
Character Defining Features
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
Goal: Accommodate roadway users while maintaining character
Traffic Speed and Traffic Safety Issues along the Byway
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
SAFETY: Where does this apply?
Transportation Strategies
Intersections• MD 213 and US 50• Mathewstown Rd and
US 50• Maryland Ave. and US
50
Transitions to Towns• St. Michaels• Race St., Cambridge• Vienna• Federalsburg• Denton
• First, slow travel speeds, maintain existing pavement
• Focus efforts for additional pavement in areas with greatest need
• Where additional pavement width is needed, carefully insert alterations to blend with existing topographic and drainage patterns
• In wooded areas, minimizing cut and fill sections in critical root zones
• Where additional pavement width is needed, consider the potential impact on operating speeds
• Where all else fails,, utilize the “share the road” signage noted above or pavement marking system
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
Pedestrians and Bicycles on the Byway
Wayfinding
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
Byway Enhancements – Black Walnut Point as a destination
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
Byway Enhancements – Concept Study for Bellevue Park
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
Byway Enhancements along Public Right-of-Way
GOAL 5: Traveling the Byway
…What are the Next Steps
1. Interpretive Plan - funded 2. Route marking replacement signs (fewer
signs and coordinated with TAC signs) - funded
3. Establish nine-county coordinating committee (working through heritage areas and tourism offices)
4. Reference CMP in Comprehensive Plans in each jurisdiction – this will help in pursuing outside funding
5. Pursue outside funding for high priority projects
www.lardnerklein.com/mcsb_index.htm
Michener’s Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway