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Point 5: Strategy to enhance and
accommodate development
while Preserving Intrinsic
Qualities
As described throughout this document, their own review mechanisms for managing
the IVSB corridor presents a primarily rural development as do both the Meskwaki Nation
landscape, overwhelmingly in private hands. and Amana Society, Inc. Benton, Tama and
Two unique large, private landholdings include Poweshiek counties also have comprehensive
the over 8,000-acre Meskwaki Settlement land use and zoning plans. The general
and the 26,000-acre Amana Society, Inc. dearth of planning and zoning regulations
Concerns about regulatory land use practices and historic preservation initiatives in many
and private property rights, expressed in the IVSB communities, however, remain issues
recent survey, underscore the necessity of (see Point 3). Increased pressure to sell
consensus-building among vested Byway Amana lands for housing and commercial
stakeholders to pursue both voluntary development, the general lack of rural zoning,
and regulatory strategies to preserve the the loss of small farms and increase of
Corridor’s intrinsic qualities, yet accommodate agribusinesses, and the concentration of new
development� business along the expanded U.S. Highway 30
arterial in Benton and Tama counties are also
In Iowa, useful tools to preserve property current concerns�
include outright purchase by nonprofit
organizations, conservation easements, A national scenic byway designation for the
incorporating intrinsic quality resources into IVSB is unlikely to create a great influx of
planning and zoning frameworks, restrictive traffic, expansion of population, or unbridled
covenants, public acquisition, land transfer, development. As suggested in this CMP, and
state preserve designation, as well as as might be expected, current traffic volume
stewardship and educational programs. Public in the Byway area is variable (see Points 7
land-managing agencies generally have and 8). Tama and Poweshiek counties in the
