The vision of this year’s conference is to showcase the diversity of our region and our members. The preparation for the 2019 National ASLA Conference takes an enormous amount of time and effort to showcase our city, projects and our profession. Vicki Es- trada, FASLA and I are Host Chapter Co-Chairs of this year’s ASLA national conference. We have worked to bring together the National and ASLA San Diego Chapter efforts to culminate in a “best ever” 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture. As the conference nears, the efforts become more time demanding. Without a doubt, all of our committee co-chairs have done an exceptional job in the preparation and coordination of their venues. Vicki and I could not be more proud of their hard work and unwavering support. (continued on page 5) November 2019 In this issue: •A New Name for Annual Meeting •ASLA is Leading the Way in Sustainability •La Mesa Community Garden at MacArthur Park •Preview of a Conference Presentation •What’s Out There Weekend •Legislative Update and Elected Official Site Tour •40th Annual SDASLA Golf Tournament: We Had a Blast! •Membership Updates •Sponsor Spotlight: BrightView Quarterly ASLA 2019 Conference on Landscape Architecture By Martin Flores, ASLA
Transcript
The vision of this year’s conference is to showcase the diversity of our region and our members. The preparation for the 2019 National ASLA Conference takes an enormous amount of time and effort to showcase our city, projects and our profession. Vicki Es-trada, FASLA and I are Host Chapter Co-Chairs of this year’s ASLA national conference. We have worked to bring together the National and ASLA San Diego Chapter efforts to culminate in a “best ever” 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture.
As the conference nears, the efforts become more time demanding. Without a doubt, all of our committee co-chairs have done an exceptional job in the preparation and coordination of their venues. Vicki and I could not be more proud of their hard work and unwavering support. (continued on page 5)
November 2019
In this issue:• A New Name for Annual Meeting• ASLA is Leading the Way in Sustainability• La Mesa Community Garden at
MacArthur Park•Preview of a Conference Presentation•What’s Out There Weekend• Legislative Update and Elected Official
Site Tour• 40th Annual SDASLA Golf Tournament:
We Had a Blast!•Membership Updates • Sponsor Spotlight: BrightView
Quarterly
ASLA 2019 Conference on Landscape ArchitectureBy Martin Flores, ASLA
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As we move into the early autumn season, there is general agreement from ‘us locals’ that this may be the best time of year in San Diego. The crowds and tourists have left the beaches, the ‘zonies’ are back in the desert and the weather is still pleasant. In mid-September, we celebrated the 40th year of the annual San Diego chapter golf tournament. A rousing success of fun and frivolity for golfers, tournament sponsors and volunteers at the Maderas Golf Club. Tournament pro-ceeds have been integral to funding our chapter outreach and community grant programs. This marks our Golf Chairman Phil Barnes swan song as tournament
director. The chapter is looking for candidates to fill Phil’s golf shoes in making tournament preparations and soliciting sponsors for next year. Please contact me or our Executive Director Tracy for more information.
With tongue-in-cheek, a lot of us like to tease the out-of-towners with the line… “I live where you
vacation.” San Diego has consistently ranked in the top ten vacation destinations in the U.S. This fall brings
another opportunity for San Diegan landscape architects to boast about the beautiful place where we live and
work - the 2019 Conference on Landscape Architecture. This event marks the national conference’s return to
San Diego with the rebranding of the Annual Meeting to the more salient Conference on Landscape Architec-
ture. Your fellow chapter members have been busily preparing to showcase our green imprint on San Diego.
Conference co-chairs Vicki Estrada and Martin Flores continue to put in long hours coordinating with chapter
committees and national staff to ensure a fun and successful conference. Our chapter conference communi-
cation committee has been active in expanding and promoting our social media footprint, the chapter host
committee has designed a fun and interactive host booth to welcome conference participants, our field session
committee has been working for nearly a year vetting and selecting field site tours. Lastly, the legacy commit-
tee has worked diligently on community outreach and the design of our chapter conference project at Earthlab
climate action park in San Diego.
The new conference name clearly reflects what has long been the largest gathering of landscape architects
and allied professionals in the world --all coming to San Diego to learn, celebrate, renew relationships and
strengthen the fellowship of our incredible varied professional community. Attending this conference has
always been energizing and has given me exposure to interesting out-of-the-box thinking and innovations on
the fore of our industry. We normally share the “why” of what we do. Through the field sessions and educa-
tional presentations we can discuss the “how and what” in meaningful dialogues. The conference not only
provides an opportunity to renew friendships and interact with other LA’s from around the country but also
facilitates the welcoming of students and emerging professionals into our profession and allows them to begin
building lifelong connections.
The 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture will offer more than 120 education opportunities,
allowing attendees to fulfill their professional development requirements over four days. You’ll see the opening
and closing sessions with keynote speakers covering green infrastructure solutions to combat the climate crisis;
education sessions covering in-depth topics affecting landscape architects; project field sessions with trips
across the border, to north county and into the desert; Professional Practice Network (PPN) education seminars
that represent the major practice areas within landscape architecture; and workshop sessions covering topics
like LARE prep and LAAB accreditation. Yu’ll be able to visit the EXPO and engage in productive face-to-face
interactions with product vendors and suppliers. Use the ASLA Conference meeting mobile app to build your
onsite schedule, connect with other attendees and see an interactive map of the EXPO floor.
The opportunity to attend a gathering with professionals who don’t require me to explain what I do is, in
itself, refreshing. Meeting new professionals and renewing old friendships is always gratifying. The few days
we come together in the fall to share, learn and laugh is energizing and transformative. This year’s conference
in San Diego has a new name and a new schedule. One thing that won’t change is the fact that this event is
the most important and rewarding gathering of landscape architects anywhere. I look forward to seeing you at
the convention center November 15-18.3
from the President
A New Name for the Annual Meeting
Philip Armstrong, ASLA
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Many of you may have heard about Nancy Somerville, our former CEO, and her termination. Under Nancy’s leadership, the Society has become more visible and is now a recognized leader and an effective advocate on climate change, active transpor-tation, security design, and other issues critical to creating healthy and resilient communities. With its green roof, LEED Platinum certification, and pending WELL Building gold certification, ASLA has lived its sustainability values and is positioned as a leader and role model organization on sustainability. ASLA’s environmental leadership and community involve-ment has garnered awards and recognition from the District Office of the Mayor, the Downtown DC BID, the District Department of Energy and the Environ-ment, and the National Park Service. She has held the CEO position for over 18 years and perhaps it is time for some fresh ideas and new leadership.
Trustee’s Report
ASLA Leading the Way in Sustainability
Patricia Trauth, ASLA, Trustee
I heard from Curtis Millay at National, and at this time there is no update. We do hope to have some news about next steps in the next few weeks, and I will share that with you as I receive information. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or comments you may have.
Amazon RainforestASLA is supporting our global sister organizations, led by Iniciativa Latinoamericana del Pasisaje (Latin American Landscape Initiative, LALI) and the Inter-national Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), as they work to quell the flames, prevent further deforestation, and protect the Amazon Rainforest.
ACE Mentor ProgramThe August edition of Ask Me Anything featured the ACE Mentor program, with our very own Pat Caughey, FASLA, Shawn Balon, ASLA, and Anjelyque Easley, Student ASLA, and was hosted by Daniel Martin, Hon. ASLA. This Facebook Live event has been viewed more than 500 times since airing on August 21st.
Education and PracticeThe ASLA Committee on Education and Education and Practice PPN conducted a joint webinar focused on how ASLA members can get involved in the up-coming Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board
(LAAB) accreditation standards revision process. Accreditation and Education Director Kristopher Pritchard presented an overview of the process and timeline for when comments can be submitted. More information about how to participate in the open call for comments on LAAB accreditation standards revisions can be found on the ASLA website.
The Transportation, Campus Planning & De-sign, Education & Practice, Ecology & Restoration, Sustainable Design & Development, and Women in Landscape Architecture PPNs held their monthly leadership team meetings. Most PPNs focused on confirming plans for their PPN meetings at the ASLA Conference here in San Diego.
Landscape Architecture MagazineFrom September 15 - 23, LAM will join more than 180 news outlets and individual journalists world-wide in an effort called Covering Climate Now. The purpose is for each participating outlet to bring out its strongest climate coverage in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Summit in New York.
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Community Grant
La Mesa Community Garden at MacArthur Park
Jose Aguila, ASLA, Vice President of Community Outreach
The American Society of Landscape Architects San Diego Chapter is happy to announce the winner of the 2020 Community Grant. The grant is made possible through the ASLA San Diego Chapter charity golf tournament and our sponsors. Many thanks to those sponsors, coordi-nators, volunteers, and participants who contribute each year.
This year La Mesa Parks and Recreation Foun-dation, 501c3, (Foundation) has been awarded our $5,000 grant for their project titled “La Mesa Community Garden At MacArthur Park.” The ASLA San Diego Chapter Community Grant will be used to create the first community garden of its kind in La Mesa, which will be located at MacArthur Park.
“The goal of the community garden is to improve residents’ quality of life by nurturing the community’s physical, mental, and social health through growing and sharing healthy food. The grant funds will be allocated as seed money for the garden’s start-up, to include community outreach, design work-shops, preparation of the garden master plan and construction drawings, and construction of a portion of the garden infrastructure, grading, fencing, and demonstration beds.”
Per the grant application, the educational compo-nent of the grant is twofold. The Foundation will be working with Helix High School CAD and environ-mental science students throughout the design process to expose them to landscape architecture. The students will also be helping with the public workshops, site analysis, base map preparation, and design and layout. Beyond design, they will be involved in the implementation, education, and long-term maintenance as the garden develops. Commu-nitywide, the educational purpose of the garden is to provide a resource for gardening and environmental stewardship. Community members will be invited to attend classes, workshops, and garden-related events.
Kathleen Brand, PLA, member of ASLA San Diego Chapter, and a La Mesa Community Services Commissioner, will lead the design process. Per the Foundation, she has extensive experience working with students, installing and managing school gar-
dens, and leading community workshops. The new garden replaces a “monoculture of Ber-
muda grass and palm trees,” a remainder of the for-mer golf course landscaping, and transforms it into a distinct landscape of vegetable, flower, and pollinator gardens. Per the Foundation, the project will include a diversity of plant material, on-site composting, and water-efficient irrigation, as well as demonstrate best management practices for stormwater management and infiltration.
The Foundation explains that the garden has a board of directors that will be responsible for the on-going organization of the garden and continued fundraising for further expansion and future improve-ments. Visual documentation will be shared via the city website and social media to promote both the community garden and landscape architecture.
The renovation of the garden will begin in early 2020 with scheduled completion in December of 2020.
(continued from page 1)For the first time ASLA is offering a free closing
keynote session to members and the public who register online at www.asla.org. The session speakers are featured on the cover of this newsletter.
Sage LA) and Chris Roesink, ASLA Affiliate (Hunter Industries/FX Luminaire)
• Communications Co-Chairs - Jonathan Avila, ASLA (City of San Diego) and Brooke Whalen, ASLA (KTUA)
• Field Session Co-Chairs – Rick Barrett, ASLA (MIG) and Keyna Huezo, ASLA (MIG)
• Legacy Project Co-Chairs – Jamie Sandoval, ASLA (Estrada Land Planning) and Trista Silvia, ASLA Affiliate (Studio WC)
• Women in LA Walking Tour Chair – Kathleen Brand, ASLA (Civic San Diego)
• Host Chapter Co-Chairs – Martin Flores, ASLA (MSF Landscape Architecture) and Vicki Estrada, FASLA (Estrada Land Planning)
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Architect’s role is in the change. The session is a must attend for all Landscape Architects seeking to understand this trend towards more useful front yards. Attendees will gain insight on how to create beautiful, sustainable and functional garden spaces.
Before Improvements: Traditional front yard with lawn and display foundation planting
After improvements: Gathering space, patios and drought-tolerant plants.
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ASLA National Conference
Preview of Conference Presentation
Jim Taylor, ASLA and Katie Seidenwurm, ASLA
Local ASLA members and landscape architects Katie Seidenwurm ASLA (Zinnia Design), Jim Taylor ASLA (The Lightfoot Planning Group) and Courtney Skybak, ASLA (Samuel H. Williamson Associates, Portland Or-egon) will be leading an educational session that ex-plores recent trends towards other uses for the front yard landscape. Both Katie and Courtney focus the bulk of their professional work on residential design. Their work covers the many functions of the front yard garden. Jim’s perspective comes from his many years of working with Homeowners Associations and their role in preserving community character.
Their session will be held on Sunday, November 17 at 3:30 pm, Room 29CD. Come on by and support your local members. ASLA National has chosen this session as a recorded webinar that will be available after the conference for those who will not be able to attend the event. Stay tuned to ASLA announcements for instructions on how to access the recording.
The Session will explore the evolution of the front yard garden from the more traditional uses as simply a display garden to recent trends such as creating gathering spaces to foster community, creating edible gardens and installing more sustainable gardens. The session will cover how and why these changes have occurred. In addition, there will be discussion at the end of the session exploring what the Landscape
2020 Excellence in Design AwardsMichael Brennan, ASLA and Tim Pruss, ASLA – Design Awards Committee Co-Chairs
The San Diego ASLA Design Awards Committee is pleased to announce the upcoming 2020 Design Awards. Next year’s Design Awards Ceremony will be held in June 2020 with the event location to be announced later this year. Key dates to remember are:
•Call for Entries will go out November 21, 2019• Design Awards Entry Form and Payments Due: Monday, February 10, 2020
Cost $150 per entry for ASLA members and $230 per entry for non-members•Entry Power Point Submittals Due: Monday, February 24, 2020• Late Entry Form and Payments Due: Friday, March 6, 2020
Cost $300 per entry for ASLA members and $460 per entry for non-members•Late Power Point Submittals Due: Friday, March 13, 2020
For questions or to join the Design Awards Committee contact Michael Brennan at [email protected].
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
What’s Out There Weekend
Amy Hoffman, ASLA HALS Chair
HALS San Diego subcommittee members have been work-ing closely with The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) to organize the upcoming What’s Out There Weekend (WOTW) San Diego.
This will be an exciting event that will take place on the weekend of October 26–27, 2019, with a launch event in Balboa Park on Friday the 25th.
The tours will correspond with the publication of various weekend-related materials, including an online city guide and a printed guidebook made available to attendees of the ASLA Annual Meeting and the wider public.
Throughout the What’s Out There Weekend, we expect over 1,000 people to participate in free, expert-led tours of more than two dozen sites that demonstrate the region’s diverse landscape legacy, encouraging participants to discover the little-known design history of places they may pass every day, including sites in Balboa Park, La Jolla, Downtown, UCSD, and North County.
To date TCLF has created online guides and guide-books for 15 cities in the U.S. and Canada. ASLA San Diego is a generous sponsor of this year’s weekend and the guidebook.
Other sponsors include: The Balboa Park Conser-vancy, the NEA, Bartett Tree Experts, Burton Studio, Civitas, Coastal Sage, Coldspring, KTUA, Park West, SOHO, Victor Stanley, Brightview Landscape Develop-ment, Groundlevel Landscape Architecture, OJB Land-scape Architecture, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, AHBE | MIG, Schmidt Design Group, Spurlock Landscape Architects, and USA Shade and Fabric Structures.
Tours are free, but registration is encouraged. The schedule can be found at https://tclf.org/whats-out-there-weekend-san-diego
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CCASLA Update
Legislative Update and Elected Official Site Tour
Joy Lyndes, PLA, ASLA
Our California state law mak-ers have been busy in Sacra-mento, crafting new legislation to serve their constituents. Our California Council of ASLA (CCASLA) has been tracking these bills with the help of our CCASLA lobbyist. Our CCASLA goals are:
To work together with our state’s four ASLA Chapters to advance the profession of Land-scape Architecture in the state as an instrument of service in public welfare and to serve as the coordinating council in the state for our various Chapters. -- http://cc-asla.org/about/
We’ve had good fun and conducted some effective advocacy in 2019!CCASLA is composed of two directors from each California Chapter (Northern CA, San Diego, Sierra and Southern CA). We meet monthly, usually by phone, to discuss the progress of current bills. We coordinate and attend meetings with our legislators. Tracy Morgan Hollingworth is the CCASLA Executive Director (and is also our Chapter Executive Director), and is vital to our organization. Rich Risner serves as our CCASLA President and is our fearless leader.
TOP PRIORITY: Licensure Sunset Review Legislation Senate Bill 608 (SB 608)This is the legislation which will enable our industry to keep our current licensing authority, the Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC), which is governed by the California Architects Board (CAB). Every four to five years the LATC produces a report on their licensure activities and the report is reviewed by the CAB and the Senate and Assembly Business and Professions Committees who send comments and questions to the LATC regarding any concerns or changes in consumer enforcement that should apply to CAB and LATC.
This sunset review cycle has resulted in adding a requirement for finger printing of new landscape architect and architect licensure candidates. The LATC and CAB are both in support of this addition and see it as a customary requirement for other licensing enti-ties in the state. The fingerprinting requirement would apply to new applicants for registration only. SB 608 (which contains licensure extensions for several agen-
cies) was heard by the Senate and Assembly Business and Professions Committees. As of this writing, SB 608 just passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Next it will go to the assembly floor for a vote. Once it passes the assembly, it will return to the senate for a concurrence vote on the finger printing amendments and from the senate to the governor for his signature.
Another bill that we are tracking is a “two-year bill” (meaning it is not moving forward in this legislative cycle, but may move forward next year) addressing Conflict of Interest – AB 626.
The AB 626 Bill Summary: Current law prohibits members of the legislature, and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees, from being financially interested in a contract, as specified, made by them in their official capacity or by any body or board of which they are members, subject to specified exceptions. Current law prohibits an officer or employee from being deemed to have an interest in a contract if the person’s inter-est is one of certain types. This bill would prohibit an officer or employee from being deemed interested in a contract, as described above, if the interest is that of an engineer, geologist, architect, land surveyor, or planner, performing specified services on a project, including preliminary design and preconstruction services, when proposing to perform services on a subsequent portion or phase of the project.
In other words, firms that do preliminary/initial phase work on a project have been “conflicted-out” of doing future phase work on that project. This bill would remove that conflict, allowing a firm who does preliminary/initial work to be considered for and contracted for future phase work.
We have been in support of this bill along with the ACEC (American Council of Engineering Consultants)
and AIACA (American Institute of Architects Califor-nia) as part of the coalition that is supporting the bill. The coalition is mobilizing their members to encour-age the author to continue to move the bill. We are open to input and invite you to please contact me at [email protected] if you have any comments or input on this bill.
Take a moment to look at the legislation that we’re tracking in Sacramento this year on the CCASLA website (www.cc-asla.org/cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-3Q-Bill-Tracking-Report.pdf ) and know our four chapters are looking out for you and our profession.
Congresswoman Susan Davis Tours the Civita ProjectGlen Schmidt, FASLA (Schmidt Design Group), Brett Allen, ASLA, SD ASLA President-Elect (Van Dyke Land-scape Architecture) and Michael Brennan, SD ASLA Past President (Carson Douglas Landscape Architec-ture) took Congresswoman Susan Davis, District 53 on an informative tour of the Civita Project in Mission Valley on August 27, as part of ASLA National’s Leg-islative Site Visit initiative during Congress’ summer recess to raise the visibility of landscape architecture with our elected officials.
SDG lead the landscape architectural design and provided insights into the design process of the Civita Amphitheatre, Children’s Play Area, Walking Trails to the Civita Community Garden and Phase II of the project, which is to become a thriving residential community in Mission Valley. For more information on Civita go to www.civitalife.com.
Below: Glen Schmidt, Michael Brennan, with Congresswoman Susan Davis and Brett Allen at Civita Community Gardens.
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ASLA 40th Annual Golf Tournament
We Had a Blast! Tracy Morgan Hollingworth, ASLA Affiliate, Chapter Executive Director
Our 40th Annual Golf Tournament, with the theme of Save a Horse – Ride a Golf Cart, was a blazing success with the excellent coordination of our Golf Tournament Chair Phil Barnes, ASLA (Burton Studio), who is hanging up his tournament spurs (or spikes) and is ready to mentor a new tournament chair in 2020. Our Chapter thanks Phil for the many hours of golf tourney coordination these past three years including contacting past and new sponsors and coordinating the players for maximum fun on the course. Many thanks also to the excellent, profession-al staff at Maderas Golf Course who made the Friday tournament run smoothly.
The following players were awarded prizes at the tournament awards dinner.
1st place with a score of 56Tim Josse Kirk HoweSteve Serrano Jake Boyer
2nd place with a score of 57Southwest Boulder and StoneThank you to the following firms (shown on map
below) for their generous support. Special thanks to Eldorado Outdoor our Golf Tournament Title Sponsor.
3rd place with a score of 58Daryl Green Kim GoldensteinPhil Armstrong Marc Moody
Closest to the PinMen - Victor KlemaskeWomen - Cheree Lovell
Long DriveMen - Marty ArmstrongWomen - Cheree Lovell
Putting ContestMen - Mike CannanWomen - Elaine Sitz
We couldn’t manage the tournament without the help of the following tournament volunteers, Brett Allen (VDLA), Erin Hagen (Calsense), Jo Baumgartner (Concrete Contractors Interstate), Andy Stack (USA Shade), Ryan Kim (Spurlock), David Skalka (Ava-lon Amenities), Chris Roesink (Hunter Industries), Michael Watts (Michael Watts and Associates), Rania Theodosi, Saul Parra-Caravantes and Marisela Garcia Chaired (Southwest College LA Students).
Check out the fun we had in our Golf Tournament photo gallery located at https://www.asla-sandiego.org/40th-annual-golf-tournament/ .
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The San Diego Chapter was recognized by ASLA national as one of the top three Chapters for membership growth (thanks to you!). We encourage our local San Diego landscape architecture offices to support their staff with ASLA membership dues.
Welcome to new* and returning members• Corianne Andrews, ASLA; Spurlock Landscape
Membership Anniversaries Congratulations to the following members for reach-ing membership milestones (member anniversaries in October through December are for continuing membership).
1 to 5 Years2018 Cheryl K. Lough, ASLA; Bethany McDonnell,
2017 Eric Tran, ASLA; Benjamin M. Canales, Associ-ate ASLA; Kari J. Kikuta, ASLA; Nick Jansson
2016 Erik Rowan, ASLA; Frederick Besancon, ASLA; Tori C. Sample, Associate ASLA; Jeffrey T. Barr, ASLA
2015 Stephen Nunez, ASLA; Philip J. Armstrong, ASLA
Membership
Membership Update Jonathan Austin, ASLA VP Membership
2014 Cheri A. Blatner-Pifer, ASLA; Jonathan S. Austin, ASLA; Kent J. Horner, ASLA
6 to 10 Years2013 Rocio Gertler, ASLA2011 John P. Patterson, ASLA; Ilisa Goldman, ASLA2010 David Leonard, ASLA; Nathaniel Magnusson,
ASLA;
11 to 20 Years2008 Kasia Trojanowska, ASLA2007 Jeff Justus, ASLA2006 Navid Mostatabi, ASLA; Robert J. Jones, ASLA2003 Glen F. Brouwer, ASLA; Jill Van Sickle, ASLA2002 Patricia M. Trauth, ASLA; Thomas G. McDaniel,
ASLA2001 Michael P. Madsen, ASLA
21 to 30 Years1998 Bradley S. Hilliker, ASLA1996 Cynthia S. Benoit, ASLA; Steven A. Hare, ASLA1995 Timothy M. Smith, ASLA; Lynn E. Brown-Reyn-
olds, ASLA; Caroline R. Lee, ASLA1989 Takendo Arii, ASLA; Anthony D. Lawson, ASLA;
Jon Samuel Wreschinsky, ASLA
31 to 40 Years 1986 James C. Kuhlken, ASLA; 1983 Gail Decker Garbini, ASLA; Michael W. Peltz,
ASLA; Kathleen A. Garcia, FASLA; 1982 Nicholas F. DeLorenzo, ASLA
Sponsor Spotlight:
BrightViewBrett Allen, ASLA
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The team at BrightView brings over 140 years of combined experience to the landscape industry, with roots dating back to 1939. BrightView professionals
are backed by the support of an accomplished lead-ership team, dedicated to the empowering solutions that enable their clients’ success.
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BrightView is focused on generating value for the
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As the largest provider of commercial landscaping services in the United States, BrighView takes envi-ronmental stewardship seriously. They have adopted environmentally responsible best practices that seek to promote healthy and sustainable landscapes.
BrightView creates, preserves and maintains beautiful external environments. In addition to the landscapes they design, build, maintain and enhance – and the tens of thousands of C02-consuming plants and trees added to landscapes each year – BrightView is continually striving to minimize the impact of their work on the environment through in-novative landscaping techniques, efficient equipment, and environmentally responsible practices.
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San Diego Chapter2018/19 Executive CommitteePresidentPhilip Armstrong, ASLA 760.692.1924 The Lightfoot Planning Group [email protected] Elect - FundraisingBrett Allen, ASLA 619.300.2782Van Dyke Landscape Architects [email protected] Preciado, ASLA 619.236.0143Estrada Land Planning [email protected] Chevalier, ASLA 619.532.1384Naval Facilities Engineering Command [email protected] PresidentMichael Brennan, ASLA 619.995.1306Carson Douglas [email protected] Community OutreachJose Aguila ASLA 619.532.1523Naval Facilities Engineering [email protected] MembershipJonathan Austin, ASLA 619.610.7725AECOM [email protected] Programs/Social ActivitiesAura Garcia Grego 619.240.8193City of San Diego [email protected] Visibility/Public AffairsJohn Avila, ASLA 619.533.7548City of San Diego [email protected] TrusteePatricia Trauth, ASLA 619.278.5656Rick Engineering Co. [email protected] Council of ASLARichard Risner, ASLA 760.518.7106Grounded Modern LA [email protected] Lyndes, ASLA 760.456.7907Coastal Sage LA [email protected] ASLA Host Committee Co-ChairsVicki Estrada, FASLA 619.236.0143Estrada Land Planning [email protected] Flores, ASLA 619.239.2353 x449Carrier Johnson Culture [email protected] Update Committee, City of SDDavid McCullough, ASLA 619.296.3150McCullough Landscape Architecture [email protected] Brennan, ASLA 619.995.1306Carson Douglas [email protected] Water Authority-Conservation Action CommMarian Marum, ASLA 619.992.9533Marum Partnership [email protected] Professionals Committee Co-ChairsKatie Barreto, ASLA 858.558.8977Gillespie Moody Patterson [email protected] Rowan 973.941.1070Rick Engineering [email protected] Committee Co-chairsPhil Barnes 858.625.0112Urban Arena [email protected] Armstrong, ASLA 760.692.1924The Lightfoot Planning Group [email protected] Committee ChairAmy Hoffman, ASLA 619.294.4477KTUA Landscape Architecture & Planning [email protected] Dieguito River Park Citizens Advisory CommJoe Esposito, ASLA 619.236.0143Estrada Land Planning [email protected] Chapter LiaisonMichael Watts 619.991.0023MW Watts and Associates [email protected]
Executive Director Tracy Morgan Hollingworth 619.283.88181050 Rosecrans St, Suite B • San Diego, CA 92106 [email protected] FAX 619.222.8154
California Council of ASLA2018/19 Executive BoardSierra ChapterJohn Nicolaus, FASLA (Govt Affairs) 916.503.5094 Andrew Wickham, ASLA 916.287.2326San Diego ChapterRichard Risner, ASLA (President) 760.518.7106Joy Lyndes, ASLA (Vice President) 760.456.7907Northern California ChapterTala Fatolahzadeh, ASLA (Treasurer) 408.535.8345Carmen Erasmus, ASLA 415.573.6718Southern California ChapterJim Pickel, ASLA (Secretary/Website) 714.930.6959Jeff Chamlee, ASLA 909.484.2800State Lobbyist for CCASLADonald GilbertEdelstein Gilbert Robson & Smith, LLC 916.443.6400LATC ResourceJon Wreshinsky, ASLA 619.916.6956LATC Program ManagerTrish Rodriguez 916.575.7231CCASLA Executive DirectorTracy Morgan Hollingworth 619.283.8818
ASLA NationalExecutive OfficersPresidentShawn T. Kelly, FASLAPresident-ElectWendy Miller, FASLAImmediate Past PresidentGregory A. Miller, FASLAVP of CommunicationsHaley Blakeman, ASLAVP of EducationLake Douglas, FASLAVP of FinanceThomas Mroz, ASLAVP of Government AffairsEugenia Martin, FASLAExecutive Vice President/CEONancy C. Somerville, Hon. ASLAASLA National Headquarters636 Eye Street, NW • Washington, D.C. 20001-3736Phone 888.999.2752Fax 202.898.1185 • www.asla.org
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VisionA world where the built and natural environments
coexist in harmony and sustainable balance;
where all peoples can express their diverse
heritage and their individual desires to grow
and thrive; and where we, as a profession, can
substantially contribute to the process of achieving
these ends.
MissionTo lead, to educate and to participate in the
careful stewardship, wise planning and artful
design of our cultural and natural environments.
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