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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Z-Z7 <br /> <br />CHAPTER Z. APPENDIX A. <br /> <br />LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SITE SURVEY AND ANALYSIS <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />The goals of landscape architecture are to identify, analyze, plan and <br />design so as to retain, replace, or improve as many landscape resource <br />values as possible. Material in this Appendix will cover the identification <br />lUld analysis procedures. Planning and design will be discussed in Chapter 8. <br />Material presented in this technical release assumes prior landscape <br />architectural inputs have occurred in the development of project alterna- <br />tives. Some of the material discussed herein could be used in the initial <br />project assessment phase. <br /> <br />Meeting the goals of landscape architecture in channel work does not <br />always mean a channel should be built to appear as it did before the <br />project or necessarily to appear as a "natural landscape." The project <br />site appearance can change drastically, as long as the landscape resource <br />values have been retained, replaced, or improved. To achieve these <br />goals the following four step procedure should be followed: <br /> <br />1. Landscape Architecture Site Survey to identify and map the <br />landscape use and visual resource values* and to modify these values <br />as indicated by project visibility. <br /> <br />Z. Landscape Architecture Site Analysis to identify opportunities <br />and problems and to define objectives so as to utilize opportunities <br />and overcome problems. <br /> <br />3. Planning to identify alternates that achieve the objectives. <br />In this phase the landscape architectural objectives merge with <br />other engineering objectives to find the best possible alternatives. <br /> <br />4. Design to detail the chosen alternative so as to achieve the <br />best structural and environmental solution. <br /> <br />LANDSCAPE ARClllTECTURE SITE SURVEY <br /> <br />Any landscape architecture (LA) site survey includes two basic factors <br />the landscape (its physical characteristics) and people (how they see <br />and use the landscape.) Judgment should be used to determine what <br />data are needed. Obviously the scope and detail of the data will vary <br />depending upon the size and location of the channel. Both the explict <br />value of the landscape and some sense of the landscape's implicit value <br />as perceived by its users and viewers must be considered in channel <br /> <br />* Note: definition may be found in Glossary at the end of Appendix A. <br /> <br />- <br />