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1907 Comprehensive Plan
Roanoke's 1907 Comprehensive Plan was commissioned by the Women's Civic Betterment Club of Roanoke and then presented to the City government. The plan was written by John Nolen, a landscape architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The plan was written in the early stages of Nolen's career as a city planner. He went on to write plans for over 50 cities in the country, including Kingsport, Tennessee, San Diego, California, Mariemont, Ohio, Asheville and Charlotte, North Carolina. Nolen came back to Roanoke to write the City's second comprehensive plan in 1928. The plan is the first comprehensive plan written in the country however, it was not the first to be adopted by a local government.
In 1997, the 1907 Roanoke Comprehensive Plan received the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) National Planning Landmark award from the American Planning Association.
Download the 1907 Roanoke Comprehensive Plan below:
1907 Roanoke Comprehensive Plan (File size: 11 MB.)
General Plan for the Remodeling of Roanoke 1907 (File size: 1 MB)
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