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DRAFT SUMMARY OF NEA GRANT PROPOSAL Regional Appearance Committee Triangle J Council of Governments September 1990 Grant Amount Requested: $50,000. Regional Ima= Guidelines In 1989 the Triangle J Council of Governments ( TJCOG) concluded the first phase of a NEA funded region appearance assessment with the publication of Building a Regional Image (BRI). This document summarize( the findings of a comprehensive survey of 230 local government elected and appointed officials in the 6- count7 Region J area on issues related to community and regional appearance. The report also contained eg nera recommendations to protect and enhance the Region's visual image. NEA funding is now being sought to assis with the 2nd phase of this work which will be the application of BRI recommendations to three places in th Region: a major thoroughfare corridor; a highway commercial strip with shopping centers and other mixes uses; and a river /open space corridor. As the survey discovered, these are the types of areas that collectively are shaping the Region's visual image. The basic concern expressed is that the Region's appearance wf deteriorate as the population approaches the one million persons projected for 2000. NEA funds would be usa to support the work of architecture and landscape architecture graduate students at the NC State Universit School of Design. Their task, with donated faculty and TJCOG guidance, would be to translate th recommendations in BRI into specific design guidelines for the three selected areas. NEA funds would then b used to hire the professional design firm of Lucy Carol Davis & Associates to refine the guidelines by conductin a series of regional design workshops with TJCOG support followed by the production of design guideline publications that could be used by local governments, citizens and the development community.