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HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN • a The Conceptual Preservation Map depicts opportunities to conserve, protect, and enhance places and parts of the Harrisburg area that make it a unique community. Many participants of the public process for the Harrisburg Area Land Use Plan indicated these aspects of the community attracted them to reside and do business in the Harrisburg area. The foundation of the Conceptual Preservation Map is the set of features and characteristics of the landscape that have functional and qualitative value to the citizenry. Members of the public who attended the charrette and other community meetings marked these features on the map or described them to the project team, which in turn identified and mapped these features and characteristics. They include the following: • Working agricultural lands; • Natural water courses and associated floodplains and wetlands; • Historic sites and structures; • Significant Natural Heritage Areas; • Existing land dedicated to parks and recreation; • Scenic roads; and • Rural character viewsheds. N The first five types of land characteristics contribute to the last two. A rural character viewshed is a perspective from a roadway or other public land in which a person can observe and enjoy the natural beauty and open space created or framed by natural and cultural features, including farms and forests. A scenic road is a corridor framed by historic structures, large trees, and other natural elements offering travelers a visual break from the repetition of subdivision housing or parked cars on commercial property. These natural and cultural features of the landscape range from functional to aesthetic - uses of the land to composition of features. Functions are uses of land and therefore guide the Harrisburg Area Land Use Map. Most simply, existing parks appear on the Land Use Map, indicating that these parks are important components of the community's future. Agriculturally used land exists primarily in areas designated for single - family residential development at low and very low densities. While not land uses, the remaining features and characteristics listed above are impacted by the use of the land they occupy. That land use greatly affects the integrity and longevity of cultural and natural features in the community. APPENDIX C: SUPPORTING CONCEPT MAPS Culturally and naturally significant places are more than scenic resources; they play important civic roles. Churches (above), cemeteries (below), and agricultural land (bottom) employ citizens and provide services. Their endurance is a testament to their value to the community. AU( ST 2010 Attac ment number 2 G -1 Page 401