Calmar selected for community visioning program

Calmar has been selected to participate in the Iowa's 2012 Living Roadways Community Visioning Program.

The program integrates provides landscape planning and design techniques to communities with an eye toward encouraging sustainable community action in making sound and meaningful decisions about the local landscape.

The program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation in partnership with Iowa State University Landscape Architecture Extension and Trees Forever, an Iowa-based nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. In addition, professional landscape architects offer expertise in creating conceptual design plans for the communities.

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.