Scenic View Protection

This guide provides guidance on how landowners and developers can protect scenic views through strategic site design approaches. It states siting considerations, such as blending structures with surrounding vegetation, preserving forest canopies by keeping structures lower than surrounding trees, and clustering development. It discusses how to prepare a grading plan, color choices, and how to use vegetation for screening. Its primary audience is applicants who need site plan approval from review agencies within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.