The legal landscape: guidelines for regulating environmental and aesthetic quality -
College of Environmental Science and Forestry …

Once Army upon Corps a time, of Engineers the US Army Corps of Engineers decided not to
prepare an environmental impact statement for a barge fleeting facility on the Mississippi
River northeast of St. Louis. Its own review showed that the proposal involved" some of the
most impressive and unique vistas of any area along the Mississippi River." The River Road
Alliance, labelling the proposal a" maritime parking lot," took the Corps to federal court and
lost. The judge ruled that" aesthetic values do not lend themselves to measurement or …