Scenic View Protection

This guide for scenic resource protection provides resources to help balance development and preserve scenic beauty in the Shawangunk Mountains Region. It includes definitions related to scenic resources and provides examples of visualization assessment tools, like viewshed analysis, simulations, and line of sight sections. It also describes landscape patterns, like forested lands and rural residential areas, and presents issues and opportunities related to each landscape category. Additionally, it contains planning and design practices that can be used to preserve landscape patterns, including building along natural edges, building below line of sight, and using colors from the landscape.