[From the News Leader]

STAUNTON — The architecture students who strode through downtown Staunton and city parks in September returned on Thursday with sandwich boards singing the praises of the city's beauty and eco-friendliness, and offered some room for improvement.

They invited the rest of town to join them.

For the past two months, students from the U.Va. Green Lands class have been working to assess Staunton's existing green infrastructure, enhancing the city's Geographic Information Systems map, and compiling recommendations for the city. Halfway through compiling their plans to fix the place up, they hosted an open house at Bessie Weller Elementary to share their findings with the steering board of city officials, infrastructure experts and the dozens of city residents.

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