Kalona  selected for 2016 Community Visioning Program

AMES ? Ten Iowa communities have been selected to participate in the Iowa?s Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2016.

The award-winning program integrates technical landscape planning and design techniques with sustainable community action to assist community leaders and volunteers in making sound and meaningful decisions about the local landscape.

The 2016 visioning communities are Carlisle, Colfax, Garrison, Hampton, Kalona, Manning, Monona, St. Ansgar, Stuart and University Heights. The program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation in partnership with Iowa State University Extension Landscape Architecture and Trees Forever.

To qualify for the visioning program, a community must have a population of fewer than 10,000, existing transportation-related issues and a committee of volunteers willing to dedicate their time and talent to the visioning process. Since 1996, 209 Iowa communities have benefited from the Visioning Program.