Less Successful Example of an Abstract/Project Description:
This project will preserve the exterior of a church, the most prominent historic building located along the scenic byway. The project will strip to wood the existing paint, which is contaminated with lead and extremely expensive to remove and dispose of, and repaint the building. The most important goal of the project is to preserve for future generations the church's original clapboards and woodworking. The timing of the project is expected to coincide with the development of a new public parking area, which will be located behind the church. The walkway linking the new parking lot and the visitor center will be located on church property.
The project benefits the byway traveler by preserving the most notable and striking historic property along the byway. The preservation project compliments a proposal to create a new public parking lot which will be located behind the church, and will be linked to the town common via the church's existing easterly driveway. Although the stripping and repainting of the church is being prioritized to preserve the structural and architectural integrity of the building, the project is all the more timely and important as pedestrians will use the driveway to visit the town common, in which the visitor center is located.
This example is less successful because it:
- Does not establish a clear relationship between the project and the byway. Proximity to a byway (i.e., location along the byway) does not necessarily establish the project's relationship to the byway
- Does not discuss how the project relates to the byway's corridor management plan
- Discusses a related project and a visitor center, but does not clearly summarize how they relate to this project application, or the byway
