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Conclusion The cities featured in this guide have a platinum or gold rating through the SCCP. Each city is still striving to improve the existing conditions according to the most recent discoveries of best practices. We encourage cities to constantly seek to be better and evolve. We pledge to do so as a program, through maintaining up-to-date and relevant information to share with our cities. Through developing the SCCP Best Practices Guide, our understanding of scenic standards has grown more comprehensive. The participating cities have shown outstanding commitment to our principles, and we have learned a great deal from them, as we hope the readers of this guide do. They are an inspiration for our work at Scenic Texas. The intention of this resource guide is to further develop the inter-city collaboration that Scenic Texas and its founding SCCP partners are working to enhance through the Scenic City Certification Program. Each of the principles that the SCCP endorses work towards the global initiative to combat climate change and work towards a safe and just transition to a more sustainable and equitable future for Texas. Our hope is that cities can learn from each other through our joint effort to shape the future of our state to protect scenic standards, environmental conservation, economic growth and growth management, and sense of place. Through ordinances, plans and programs, cities can accomplish incredible things that together have the influence to leverage change for our state. The most frequented advice given by the featured cities was to communicate with the residents and business owners within the community. Outreach efforts are truly worth the time and resources. Cities have found graphics to be incredibly helpful when communicating technical ideas to the public. During the interview process, many cities also noted that the SCCP certification has helped give a name to values the cities already prioritized and thus furthered the support.
