The document summarizes Lancaster County's efforts to identify and preserve treasured places through its comprehensive plan. It discusses identifying communities, corridors, and landscapes as treasured places and developing tools like inventories, conservation programs, and ordinances to protect natural, cultural and historic resources. Implementation tools are outlined to preserve natural areas, cultural heritage, and support tourism through committees, assessments and signage programs.

1. Lancaster County’s
Treasured Places
Kip Van Blarcom
Senior Countywide Planner
Lancaster County Planning Commission
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
July 17, 2012

2. Lancaster County’s TreasuredTourism
Civic Places
1 Lancaster County
Comprehensive Plan
2 Identifying
Treasured Places
3 Implementation Tools

3. Lancaster County
Comprehensive Plan

4. Comp Plan

5. Comp Plan
• Authenticity • Economic • Ecological
development connections
• Tourism
Destination • Context- • Accessible
Areas sensitive outdoor
solutions recreation

6. Identifying
Treasured Places
Randolph J. Harris

7. Treasured Places
Communities Corridors Landscapes
• City • Byways • Natural
• Boroughs • Trails • Historic
• Villages • Water trails • Cultural

8. Resources in the LRTP
Communities • Historic villages
• Urban neighborhoods
Corridors • Heritage byways
• Historic bridges
Landscapes • Agricultural landscapes
Other • Tourism Destination Areas
• High-priority resource types
that exist countywide

9. Natural &
Recreational
Lancaster

10. Cultural

11. Tourism

12. Treasured
Places

13. Implementation Tools
Randolph J. Harris

14. Tools
Natural & Recreational
• Natural areas inventory
• Conservation easements and
land acquisition
• Municipal ordinance
development

15. Tools
Cultural
• Historic Resource Inventory –
14 boroughs
• Bridge protection and
maintenance program
• Municipal ordinance
development

16. Tools
Tourism
• Advisory committees
• Destination assessments
• Heritage tourism program
• County and state byways
• Wayfinding

17. Thanks! Program Update
Bryan Van Sweden
Andrea MacDonald
Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission
Harriet Parcells
Kip Van Blarcom
Lancaster County
Planning Commission