                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LANDSCAPE STUDIES FOR URBAN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS (§ 33.2-350)

Prior to final design of any urban highway funded in part by any municipality,
such municipality may hire a competent authority to conduct a landscape study
that shall assess the effect such proposed highway construction may have on
existing trees, shrubbery, and other flora and shall make recommendations as to
modifications to such project that would minimize damage to existing flora. The
Department shall consider such recommendations and modify such highway
construction plans to protect trees, shrubbery, and other flora if determined by
the Department to be reasonable and practicable. The cost of such landscape
study shall be payable by the municipality that initiates such study.

HISTORY: 1975, c. 555, § 33.1-47.1; 2014, c. 805.