We are a chapter of Scenic Texas, which has other chapters in Houston, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth and an affiliate in Galveston. We are a part of a regional effort.  We work with organizations, civic leaders and local officials to develop policies that result in preserving and enhancing the greater metropolitan area's scenic beauty and a better quality of life.  Those efforts can include educating and acting as a resource for streetscape beautification policies including off- and on-premises signs, landscaping and tree preservation, scenic districts, overhead wires, cell towers, illegal bandit signs, graffiti and litter. Our affiliate organization, Scenic Galveston, is the leader in protecting and preserving one of Texas' most treasured estuaries. Together we strive to make Texas a state of vision.


   Scenic Texas provides the important leadership for the chapters. Our collective efforts include providing educational and resource materials to Texas cities that are establishing or revising ordinances that impact the streetscapes. We also support urban forestry projects, tree planting and preservation initiatives, the creation of scenic roads and districts, the establishment and funding of parks and green space, the forestation of our highways, and the preservation of historic areas.


   In the past 6 years, legislation was enacted that protected portions of at least 29 roads from further billboard proliferation, allocated millions in highway landscaping funds, and required context sensitive issues to be considered when designing our state highways. Scenic Texas and its chapters will continue to support legislation that will prohibit new billboard construction or that will grant all local authorities the power to establish such prohibitions, allow Texas to participate in the National Scenic Byways Program, and establish permanent funding for the Green Ribbon Program to plant non-evasive landscaping along our urban highways.


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