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    DOT Scenic Land Strips

    Metadata Updated: June 7, 2025

    Department of Transportation (DOT) Scenic Land Strips contains parcels, generally long narrow strips of land, that were purchased by the DOT under the Federal Highway Beautification Act of 1965. The purpose of this program was to reduce the proliferation of billboards and other unsightly structures or facilities along federally designated highways. There are 33 parcels of land located along seven highways in eight towns.Highways and the corresponding towns where DOT Scenic Lands are located include:U. S. Route 44 in NorfolkInterstate 91 in MeridenInterstate 84 in PlainvilleInterstate 395 (formerly State Route 52) in KillinglyState Route 2 in GlastonburyState Route 8 in LitchfieldState Route 9 in Essex and Deep RiverThis does not include all land owned by DOT. The source map scale is unknown. No specific scale is recommended. This data should not be used for legal boundary purposes.See full Data Guide here. 

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date June 7, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Connecticut Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date June 7, 2025
    Publisher Department of Energy & Environmental Protection
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2025-05-08
    Data Last Modified 2025-06-02
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ct.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 36c82f29-4f54-495e-a878-2c07320bf10c
    Harvest Source Title Connecticut Data.json
    Homepage URL https://geodata.ct.gov/datasets/CTDEEP::dot-scenic-land-strips
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -73.1500,41.3589,-71.8828,41.9774
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7feab15c9d03af1f31d6dca4668a4bd954cf39d0835f971a05987240dded97ca
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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