Scenic View Protection

This report focuses on providing information the viewshed along the Copper Country Trail, a scenic route in Michigan. It provides criteria for assessing viewshed, including vividness, intactness, national uniqueness, local uniqueness, and duration of view. The visual assessment component includes individualized information of identified viewsheds, highlighting conditions like existing ordinances, comments, and recommendations. Finally, it discusses strategies for protection, such as education, voluntary measures, incorporation of land use plans incentives, land acquisitions, and regulatory measures like overlay districts, design standards and review, and historic preservation ordinances.