-- 8800 landscape and aesthetics corridor plan I-80 FROM CORRIDOR PLAN VERDI TO WEST WENDOVER & US 95 FROM WINNEMUCCA TO MCDERMITT DESIGN WORKSHOP Mackay & Somps JW Zunino & Assoc. CH2MHill Jones & Jones August 5, 2005 1-80 corridor plan Endorsement MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR OF NEVADA MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR KENNY C. GUINN NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION JEFF FONTAINE, P.E. On June 30, 2002, the Nevada Department of Transportation adopted It is NDOT's responsibility to ensure that landscaping and aesthetics as policy, "Pattern and Palette of Place: A Landscape and Aesthetics are an important consideration in building and retrofitting our high- Master Plan for the Nevada State Highway System". Now, the second way system. This Landscape and Aesthetics Corridor Plan for I-80 in phase of planning is complete. This I-80 Landscape and Aesthetics Northern Nevada helps realize our vision for the future appearance of Corridor Plan represents a major step forward for the Landscape and our highways. The plan will provide the guidance for our own design Aesthetics program created by the Master Plan. It is significant teams as well as help Nevada's citizens play an important role in the because it involves local public agencies and citizens in the planning context-sensitive solutions for today's transportation needs. process so that Nevada's highways truly represent the State and its Together, we will ensure our highways reflect Nevada's distinctive people. The Corridor Plan will be the primary management tool used heritage, landscape, and culture. to guide funding allocations, promotes appropriate aesthetic design, and provides for the incorporation of highway elements that unique- ly express Nevada's landscape, communities, and cities, as well as its people. The State considers this Corridor Plan to be a major accom- plishment for the future of Nevada highways. I 1-80 corridor plan Endorsement ENDORSEMENT This Corridor Plan has been reviewed by the following groups and agencies: Battle Mountain Band Nevada Statewide Tree Council Churchill County Newmont Mining Corporation, Western Nevada Operations City of Elko Northern Nevada Development Authority City of Carlin Pershing County City of Fernley Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe City of Lovelock Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County City of Reno Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce City of Sparks Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority City of Wells Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Planning Department City of West Wendover Scenic Nevada City of Winnemucca Sierra Club - Toiyabe Chapter Da Ka Doiyabe Resource Conservation and Development South Fork Band Te-Moak Tribe Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada Sparks Chamber of Commerce Elko Chamber of Commerce Storey County Elko County Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway Eureka County Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians, and Elko Band Fernley Chamber of Commerce Trails West Great Basin Community College Truckee Meadows Community College Humboldt County Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Humboldt River Ranch Association Truckee Meadows Tomorrow Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Lander County U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Lovelock Paiute Tribe U.S. Bureau of Land Management Lyon County U.S. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration McDermitt, Desert Inn U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Park Service Washoe County Nevada Department of Transportation, District 2 Wells Band Te-Moak Tribe Nevada Department of Transportation, District 3 Western Trails Research Association Nevada Division of Forestry Winnemucca Convention and Visitors Authority Nevada Division of State Parks Winnemucca Indian Colony Nevada Land Conservancy II 1-80 corridor plan Acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tom Fransway Tracy Larkin-Thomason William Kohbarger STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARD Tony Dietz Trevor Lloyd Chairman Kenny C. Guinn Governor Tony George Vivian Lava Kathy Augustine Controller NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Caesar Caviglia Member James R. Souba, P.E. - Former Assistant Chief of Roadway Design Engineer Tom Gust Member Rand Pollard, P.E. - Assistant Chief Roadway Design Engineer Lorraine Hunt Lt. Governor Ron Blakemore - Supervising Landscape Architect Brian Sandoval Attorney General Lucy Joyce-Mendive - Senior Landscape Architect Jim Thornton Member Susan Luescher - Assistant Landscape Architect STTAC (Statewide Transportation Technical Advisory Committee) UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND Jim Bell Keyth Durham Jim Lawrence PLANNING RESEARCH OFFICE Randy Bellard Jon Ekstrand Bruce Mackey Mark Elison Hoversten - Professor, FASLA, AICP Kristine Bunnell John Flansberg Marty Manning Susan Jones - Research Associate, ASLA Daryl Capurro David Fraser Rod Savini Elizabeth Scott - Research Associate, ASLA Bill Cadwallader Larry Friedman Ron Skunes Brian Pugh - Research Assistant, ASLA Kent Cooper Debra Goodwin Gary Stockoff Daryl Crawford Mella Harmon Steve Weaver CONSULTANT TEAM Carl Dahlen Sig Jaunarajs Jenny Welsh DESIGN WORKSHOP Joe Damiani Charlie Kajkowski Richard W. Shaw - Principal, FASLA Jerry Duke Neil Krutz Steve Noll - Principal, ASLA Stephanie Grigsby - Associate, ASLA TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE Kristofer Johnson - Landscape Planner Alan Goodale Ellis Antunez Marchon Miller Sara Muir-Owen - Planner Becky Stock Frank Flavin Marilou Walling Laura Miller - Landscape Designer Bill Bowers Gerry Emm Mary Ann McAuliffe Eric Roverud - Landscape Designer Bill Deist Georgia Morgan Marshall Fey Lisa McGuire - Graphic Designer Bill Young Gerald Miller Marvin Orr Nino Pero - Website Designer Blaine Branscomb Greg Novak Melissa Decker Kelan Smith - Environmental Graphics Brad Goetsch Gregory Holley Michael Murphy Dori Johnson - Project Assistant Bryant Smith Hannah Visser Mike Allison Casey Kelley Harry York Neil McQueary MACKAY AND SOMPS (PLACES, INC.) Charles Greenlaw Helen Hankins Otis Tipton Barbara Santner - Landscape Architect and Planner, ASLA, AICP Chere Jigour Hugh Stevens Peter Wysocki Tom Guyer - ASLA Chris Melville Illyssa Fogel Richard Gebhart Louise Keheimer - Landscape Architect Christine Fey Jeff White Richard Nelson JW ZUNINO Chuck Pope Jim Aagard Robert Stokes Jack Zunino - Principal, FASLA Dave Linge Joe Crim Robert Williams Cecilia Schafler - Landscape Architect, ASLA David Hollecker John Russum Robin Powell Geoffrey Schafler - Landscape Coordinator, ASLA Delmo Andreozzi Joyce Sheen Ronnie Woods CH2MHILL Dennis Crooks Kevin Lee Roger Sutton Cindy Potter - P.E. Civil Engineer, Principal Dennis Ghiglieri Kim Petersen Ron Damele Dean Mottram - P.E. Civil Engineer Donald Naquin Kitty Nash Ron Weisinger Dan Andersen - Public Facilitator Donna Hill Kristi Degay Ross Soderstrom Donna Kristaponis Len Stevens Scott Nebesky JONES AND JONES Dora Wren Lora Richards Steve Weaver James Sipes - Landscape Architect and Digital Database Development, ASLA Eleanor Lockwood Lorrie Chase Steve West Corey Parker - Associate iiiIII IV 1-80 corridor plan Summary I-80 CORRIDOR PLAN SUMMARY by which the design of the corridor will chapter is a description of softscape ate and desired within the segment. AND USER’S GUIDE be managed. The second chapter sets and hardscape types. These represent Maps and sections of the individual the foundation for many of the design increasing levels of visual enhance- Landscape Design Segments provide and project decisions discussed later in ment, amenity, cost, and maintenance, further detail regarding the location of This plan illustrates a detailed vision the report. In this chapter, information and have been prescribed across the specific projects and where the varying How to Use the Corridor Plan for a for the landscape and aesthetics of the regarding demographics and growth, entire I-80 corridor. Additional items levels of softscape types, structures, Segment of I-80: I-80 corridor. This vision synthesizes water availability, land ownership, and included in the Elements of Landscape hardscape types, and their treatments historic, current, and future conditions natural resources is discussed. A and Aesthetics are a roadside signage are to be achieved. into a comprehensive guide to • Refer to the section beginning on page detailed analysis of the terrain sur- program, varying degrees of enhanced improve the visual appearance of the I- 3.1 to determine softscape and hard- rounding the I-80 corridor, including road services, a native wildflower pro- Design guidelines are included in the 80 Urban and I-80 Rural highway corri- viewsheds to significant natural fea- gram, and an effort to minimize the fifth chapter to articulate qualitative scape type and treatment. dors from the California stateline at tures and environmental features, is visual impacts of outdoor advertising design for all aspects of the corridor. Verdi to the Utah border at West also presented. This information is and billboards. These apply at all levels of engineering, Wendover and US 95 from • Refer to the section beginning on page then synthesized in a series of facility planning, and design. The final Winnemucca to McDermitt. 4.1 to determine the Landscape Design Opportunities and Constraints maps Detailed analysis and further under- chapters describe funding and project that specifically identify project oppor- standing of the I-80 corridor resulted priorities for each segment of the I-80 Segment and design theme. The first chapter of this report provides tunities along four distinct segments in the creation of four distinct, yet corridor. an introduction to the NDOT of the