Linking the state, Scenic Texas has chapters in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, and an affiliate in Galveston. The Chapters lead their region\'s effort in scenic preservation by working with organizations, civic leaders, and local officials to develop policies that result in the greater metropolitan area\'s scenic beauty and a better quality of life. Those efforts include educating and acting as a resource for streetscape beautification policies including off- and on-premises signs, landscaping and tree preservation, scenic districts, overhead wires, cell towers, illegal bandit signs, graffiti and litter. Our affiliate organization, Scenic Galveston, is the leader in protecting and preserving one of Texas\' most treasured estuaries. Together we strive to make Texas a state of vision.
Scenic Texas provides important leadership. Our work includes providing educational and resource materials to Texas cities that are establishing or revising ordinances that impact the streetscapes. We also support urban forestry projects, tree planting and preservation initiatives, the creation of scenic roads and districts, the establishment and funding of parks and green space, the forestation of our highways, and the preservation of historic areas.
In the past 6 years, legislation was enacted that protected portions of at least 29 roads from further billboard proliferation, allocated millions in highway landscaping funds, and required context sensitive issues to be considered when designing our state highways. Scenic Texas will continue to support legislation that will prohibit new billboard construction or that will grant all local authorities the power to establish such prohibitions, allow Texas to participate in the National Scenic Byways Program, and establish permanent funding for the Green Ribbon Program to plant non-evasive landscaping along our urban highways.
Officers and Executive Committee
Don Glendenning, President, Dallas
Allan Port, Secretary/Treasurer, Houston
Margaret DeMoss, Fort Worth
Karen Huber, Spicewood
Girard Kinney, Austin
Margaret Lloyd, Galveston
Stan St. Pierre, The Woodlands
Kathleen Trenchard, San Antonio
Board Members
Louise Appleman, Fort Worth
Honorable Kenneth L. Barr, Fort Worth
Cece Fowler, Houston
Judy Harman, Fort Worth
John Hirschi, Wichita Falls
Holly Montalbano, Houston
Dan Moody, Jr., Houston
Tom Niederauer, Colleyville
Rafael Quintanilla, Austin
Keith Stone, Dallas
Rita White, Dallas
Evangeline Whorton, Galveston
Honorable David Bernsen, Beaumont
Harlan Crow, Dallas
Honorable Albert \"Boo\" Hausser, San Antonio
Honorable Lee Jackson, Dallas
Ann Lilly, El Paso
Jodie L. Jiles, Houston
Charla Borchers Leon, Victoria
John L. Nau III, Houston
Bill Ware, Amarillo
Carroll Shaddock
Scenic Austin
Girard Kinney
Kate Meehan
Scenic Dallas
Don Glendenning, President
Scenic Fort Worth
Judy Harman
Scenic Houston
Anne Culver, Executive Director
Holly Eaton, Program Director and Events Coordinator
Scenic San Antonio
June Kachtik
Scenic Galveston
Evangeline Whorton