Reference Library

Scenic Roads

• Scenic and Cultural Byways Program (NH DOT)
• See RSA 231:157 Scenic Roads; Designation and RSA 231:158 Effect of Designation as Scenic Roads
• "Cutting Trees Along a ‘Scenic Road’",
  Ben Frost response to a Plan-link question about landowner ability to cut trees along a ‘scenic road’, May 2002
• Section V. ‘Scenic Roads’,
  From Chapter 5, Special Categories of Layouts and Roads, from the NHMA publication ‘A Hard Road to Travel’ NHMA’s Handbook on New Hampshire Law of Local Highways, Streets and Trails, 1997 Edition by H. Bernard Waugh, Jr., Chief Legal Council
• Scenic Roads
  From Chapter 5, Special Categories of Layouts and Roads from the NHMA publication ‘A Hard Road to Travel’ NHMA’s Handbook on New Hampshire Law of Local Highways, Streets and Trails, edited by Susan Slack, Legal Services Counsel, Local Government Center, 2004
• court cases dealing with scenic road issues:
  • KENNETH WEBSTER AND MARGARET DEMOS, AS TRUSTEES OF THE KENNETH WEBSTER TRUST & a. v. TOWN OF CANDIA & a. JULEE SANDERSON, AS TRUSTEE OF CANDIA RANGEWAY REALTY TRUST v. TOWN OF CANDIA & a. May 21, 2001 (the constitutionality of the Scenic Road statute and that it is not impermissibly vague because of the lack of standards for a planning board to use when considering granting approval to cut trees or remove stonewalls along a scenic road)
• Examples of local regulations
  • Hampton Falls
  • Lebanon (Select "City of Lebanon Code on the Web" under City Departments & Online City Resources.  A separate window will open for the city code.  Enter "scenic road" in the code search box.  Select Chapter 134: Scenic Roads.)

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