Community

Outdoor Gathering Spaces  •  Create a Sense of Place  •  City Agency Coordination  •  Design Team Management  •  Community Involvement and Design Charrettes  •  Promote Community Pride  •  Flexible Spaces  •  Provide Proper Wayfinding  •  Vehicular Circulation and Parking Lot Layout  •  Park Facilities  •  Community Gathering  •  Event Spaces  •  Connections to Adjacent Open Spaces, Parks, Bike Paths  •  Playground  •  Improvements  •  Water Reuse Strategies

Site Amenities: Receptacles, Bike Racks, Benches; Landscape Maintenance Considerations; Public Education Opportunities; Regional Plants and Materials; Healthy Lifestyles and Exercise; Historic Events

Regarded as the “Grand Central Station of the West,” the Transbay Transit Center will be a significant transportation hub by networking 11 transportation systems together in one place. Working with the large project design team, a 5.4 acre...

Transbay Transit Center

This new facility supports the sports and recreation needs of a revitalized military housing community in its vicinity. Working with the landscape architects and civil engineers on the project team, goals were to infiltrate the stormwater...

Ord Military Community Activity Center

Ord Military Community Activity Center

The Watsonville Water Resources Center supports a joint water recycling project between the City of Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency. The facility provides recycled water to farmers throughout the south Santa Cruz...

Watsonville Water Resources Center

Watsonville Water Resources Center

Cayuga Park is a neighborhood park and playground in San Francisco, at the edge of the Cayuga Terrace neighborhood. The aesthetics of Cayuga Park is largely the creation of Demetrio Braceros, an employee of the San Francisco Recreation and...

Cayuga Community Center

Cayuga Community Center Green Roof

The Pacific Grove Community Center is located within the Greenwood Gulch Watershed and is a resource and gathering place for many residents. It provides the perfect opportunity to showcase examples of Low Impact Development (LID)...

Pacifc Grove Community Center

As part of the RainScape Rebate Program, a front corner planter area at the Pacific Grove Natural History Museum was redesigned to incorporate a demonstration of low impact development landscapes. There was an opportunity to tell a story...

Pacific Grove Natural History Museum

Lovers Point Park is an iconic landmark in Pacific Grove. Visitors to the Central Coast flock to the scenic open space, beaches, and sculptural rock outcroppings the park provides. Furthermore, it marks the terminus of a regional...

Lovers Point Coastal Access and Park

Pacific Grove residents contend with a number of landscaping challenges: drought conditions restrict availability and use of potable water; non-native plantings are slowly being replaced with native species to ameliorate coastal erosion;...

Pacific Grove Landscape Guidelines & Plant Palette