A new committee has been organized to participate in the 2002 Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning Program. The City's participation was funded through the award of a grant.

The Iowa’s Living Roadways Program is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation, the Iowa State University Extension Landscape Architecture Department, and Trees Forever to deliver design assistance to Iowa Communities.

Elaine Edwards has organized this committee of Maquoketa community members. Patty Petersen of Trees Forever and Meg Flenker, a landscape architect, will lead the group by identifying areas that need enhancement and improvement through the use of plantings. Street scaping, trails, new roadways, entryways and bioengineering will also be focused on. Upon completion, Maquoketa will receive a series of display boards that will include architectural landscape drawings and a master plan will be formulated. The planning boards can be used up to ten years. After completion of the display boards, the committee will implement the different projects and acquire funding, as there are federal and state grants for money to put different phases of the plan into place. This is a very exciting program and we are all anxious to see it work to make our community a more attractive place to reside and work. Call the Chamber for the time and place of the next meeting if you would like to become a part of this exciting process.

For anyone interested in attending, the committee's next meeting will be held at the Maquoketa State Bank, West Office on May 16 at 7:00 p.m.