• Nominate Community Groups for Chapter Grant

• SD/ASLA Takes on Shelter Project for LA Month

• 12 Firms Recognized at 2007 SD/ASLA Design Awards

• SD/ASLA Community Grant Awarded to Fallbrook Garden Club

• Community Service by our Chapter Members





Nominate Community Groups for Chapter Grant
Applications Due on August 1

ASLA San Diego awards an annual $5,000 Grant to a local, worthy, non-profit community group. The Grant is funded by the Annual Golf Tournament. Past recipients have included the La Jolla Town Council, the Point Loma High School Foundation, the San Ysidro Business Association and the Fallbrook Garden Club.

The purpose of the Grant is to educate and enhance the community on landscape architecture and/or environmental issues. Examples on how past monies have been spent include project design and construction, the purchase of landscape amenities or for the on-going maintenance of a project.

We would like your to help to get the word out about the chapter Grant. If you know of a Community Group, or if you are part of a Community Group who could use our Chapter's assistance, please have them download an application here, or call Tracy at 619.225.8155 for more information and a copy of the Grant application.

The Grant helps SDASLA by providing exposure to the Chapter through the projects completed by local community groups. With our help, many community groups have seen their projects become reality. This is truly a way in which we ALL give back to those who need our assistance. Please help by bringing this to the attention of those groups who could use our help.

David Salisbury, Business Development Director of Mintz Levin, a law firm based in Boston with offices in San Diego, connected SDASLA to CCS who had the simple request of replacing a large tree at their North County shelter. The large 24" caliper tree, that provided shade for the children's play area, was struck by lightening and had to be removed. The first request by CCS staff to Mintz Levin was to have umbrellas donated for the space. Dave suggested instead, just replacing the large tree and immediately thought of our Chapter and how we might be able to help.

On January 14, 2008 Chris visited the shelter with members of CCS and discussed their needs and developed a wish list of ways to help improve the quality of life to the shelter's exterior spaces. Suggestions that came out of the meeting were to install a large 96" box tree, add more 36" box trees to the shelter property, replace the children's old tot lot equipment, add exterior benches and picnic tables and freshen up the property with new shrubs and mulch. A rendered concept plan will be put together courtesy of Gillespie Moody Patterson.

A number of vendors and SD/ASLA Chapter sponsors have already stepped up to the plate and committed to helping out on the project including Pardee Tree Nursery, Brickman Group, Big Trees Nursery, Quick Crete Products, Coast Recreation and Landscape Structures, Armstrong Growers and Monrovia and Mintz Levin. If your company is interested in being involved by donating funding, goods or services please contact Chris Gustard. The chapter is also seeking members and volunteers to help organize and participate in an install. That date is to be determined. Please contact Chris Gustard via e-mail at chris@gmplandarch.com if you are interested in getting involved.

The San Diego Chapter of ASLA held its 2007 Design Awards at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla on December 6, 2007 to honor 19 project submittals with awards for professional design excellence. This year, there were 38 project submittals judged by a multi-disciplinary jury including:

• Wayne Carlson - San Diego Home and Garden Magazine
• Angela Dye, ASLA - A Dye Design (2008 ASLA President-Elect)
• Bill Dumka - Black Mountain Ranch, LLC
• Alon Kvashny, ASLA - Texas Tech University
• Jeff Craft, ASLA - HLA Group, Sacramento
• Dave Potter - Potter and Associates, San Diego
• Kelly Broughton, ASLA - City of San Diego
• Gail Nakamura - Intracorp San Diego

Thanks also to Design Awards Chairman Chris Langdon, ASLA and Jury Facilitators Robin Shifflet, ASLA and Terry Barker, ASLA.

Click here for a printable pdf version of the complete press release.

2007 SD/ASLA Design Award Recipients
Click here for a printable pdf version of this listing.

President's Award Del Sur Community Residential/Multi-Family Design Wimmer Yamada and Caughey and VITA Planning and Landscape Architecture Honor Awards Caltrans District 11 Headquarters Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC Academic Court, UCSD Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects ASLA Council of Fellows The San Diego Chapter of ASLA proudly recognized Martin Poirier, FASLA, with his successful induction into the ASLA Council of Fellows in October 2007 at the San Francisco ASLA National Convention. Merit Awards Phillips Residence Large Single Family Residential Integration Design Studio Piazza Basilone Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Environs Los Coches Creek Middle School Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design The Lightfoot Planning Group Santa Fe Summit, Phase 1 Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Nowell & Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc. Mission Valley East LRT Extension, SDSU Station - Aztec Green Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Estrada Land Planning, Inc. Finney Overlook Parks and Recreation Design MW Peltz + Associates, Inc. Fletcher Cove Park Parks and Recreation Design MW Peltz + Associates, Inc. Kumeyaay Ipai Interpretive Center Resource Conservation Design KTU+A Camino Ruiz Neighborhood Park Parks and Recreation Design Schmidt Design Group, Inc. The Cielo Club Parks and Recreation Design Rick Engineering Company Briercrest Park Parks and Recreation Design Schmidt Design Group, Inc. Rose Creek Watershed Opportunities Assessment Resource Conservation Design KTU+A Camp Lockett Framework Management Plan Resource Conservation Design KTU+A Eastlake Vistas Park Visionary Design MW Peltz + Associates, Inc. Windward Townhomes Landscape Details The Lightfoot Planning Group First San Diego River Improvement Plan Enduring Excellence Wimmer Yamada and Caughey

Caltrans District 11 Headquarters Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC Academic Court, UCSD Commercial, Institutional & Urban Design Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects

Each summer, SD/ASLA distributes a call for grant entries throughout San Diego County to encourage community-based organizations to apply for up to $5,000 in grant funds to assist with projects in our communities. Past grant recipients include:

• 2007 San Ysidro Business Improvement District
• 2006 Point Loma High School and Alumni Foundation
• 2005 Scripps Park Project
• 2004 Azalea Park Neighborhood Assoc.
• 2003 Casa Familiar Casitas de las Forecitas
• 2002 Euclid Avenue Revitalization Committee

We need ASLA members to assist our Chapter in identifying groups in the community who would be outstanding recipients for future grants. If you know of a deserving organization, send us the group's name, contact person and email or phone information. Help us help the community by forwarding potential grant recipient information to Tracy at ASLASD@sbcglobal.net. Thank you!




Community Service by Our Chapter Members

• Gregory L. Nowell, Nowell & Associates (619) 325-1990
greg@nowellassociates.com

DesignGrants Founder

Member: Mission Hills Garden Club, Mission Hills Business Association
Past Member: International Palm Society
Past Board Member: Mission Valley YMCA, Uptown Partnership



• Scott Sandel, Nowell & Associates, (619) 325-1990
ssandel@nowellassociates.com

DesignGrants

Member: Built Environmental Education Program, California Native Plant Society, Mission Hills Garden Club, Mission Hills Town Council , Save Our Heritage Organization, Sierra Club Committee Member, Ft. Stockton Line Historical District

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