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Events, dates and times are subject to change! Please call the Chapter office at (619) 225-8155 or email us at aslasd@sbcglobal.net for further information on upcoming events.

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Tours / Outdoors

Committees




Calendar


May 2013

•5/8 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•5/15 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

•5/16 Executive Committee Meeting - 6 p.m. Spurlock Poirier, 2122 Hancock Street, SD 92110.

•5/23 Stewardship Committee Event - Stone Brewery/Hunter Event registration is closed/at capacity and we cannot take additional RSVPs. ASLA members can join the pre-event walking tour of the Brewery and are welcome to enjoy themselves in the restaurant after the tour on their own. The hosted event after the tour is not available to those who didn't RSVP by May 14.

Stone Brewing

When: Thursday, May 23 - The pre-event garden tour will begin tentatively at 3:30 p.m. (watch for an update via email). The main reception kicks off at 5 p.m.

Where: Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, 1999 Citracado Pkwy, Escondido, CA 92029

Stone Brewing Co. CEO and co-founder, Greg Koch, will give a short talk on Stone's sustainability efforts at 5:30 PM. Tim Smith, ASLA's Stewardship Committee Chair, and Marney Jensen, from Schmidt Design Group, Inc., the landscape architects of record, will provide an overview of the Sustainable SITES Initiative and explain how Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens achieved certification under the nation's most comprehensive rating system for sustainable design, construction, and maintenance of built landscapes. A representative from Hunter will explain how they've helped Stone Brewing Co., and discuss their own sustainability efforts in the community. At dusk, FX Luminaire will host an evening under the stars where they will demonstrate Stone's conversion to FX LED landscape lighting.

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June 2013

•6/1 July Newsletter Deadine - Articles Due to Secretary

•6/12 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•6/19 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

•6/20 Executive Committee Meeting - 6 p.m. URS Corporation, 4225 Executive Sq., Ste. 1600, La Jolla.

•6/21-23 UCLA Extension LARE Workshops 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Westwood: G33E UCLA Extension Bldg., 10995 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024. June 21 and 22 workshops to cover Section 4, June 23 workshop to cover Section 3. MORE

•6/28 Executive Committee Nominations Due - Send nomination forms to ASLASD@sbcglobal.net by June 28. Download nomination form HERE .

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July 2013

•7/1 Exec Com Elections

•7/10 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•7/17 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

•7/18 Executive Committee Meeting - 5:30 p.m. Conference call.

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August 2013

•8/5 SD ASLA 34th Annual Golf Tournament 10:30 am. Registration, Putting Contest. 12:30 p.m. Shotgun Start. 5:30 p.m. Happy Half Hour. 6:00 p.m. Dinner, Awards, Drawing. Lomas Santa Fe Country Club, 1505 Lomas Santa Fe Dr., Solana Beach. MORE

•8/7 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•8/7 Brown Bag Lunch Seminar - Program/location TBA

•8/15 Executive Committee Meeting - 6 p.m. Schmidt Design Group, 2655 4th Ave., San Diego.

•8/21 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

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September 2013

•9/1 October Newsletter Deadine - Articles Due to Secretary

•9/11 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•9/12 Second Lecture Event - Speaker TBA. 6 p.m. reception and 7 p.m. lecture. NEW venue! NTC - Command Center Room 1, 2640 Historic Decatur Rd. (Liberty Station). Free event for members, sponsors and students with RSVP by Monday, September 9. RSVP to maria.t.swift@gmail.com.

•9/18 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

•9/20 Executive Committee Retreat - FRIDAY. 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bali Hai Restaurant.

•9/13-15 Fall Home and Garden Show - Del Mar Fairgrounds. Contact Rich Risner to volunteer.

October 2013

•10/1 Stewardship Committee Event - LID Discussion Panel at San Diego Mesa College. Contact Tim Smith

•10/9 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•10/16 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

•10/17 Executive Committee Meeting - 6 p.m. URS Corporation, 4225 Executive Sq., Ste. 1600, La Jolla.

•10/25 Landscape Plan Government Processing Roundtable - Contact Ty Sterns to volunteer.

•10/25 UNITED ASLA, ASID, AIA MIXER EVENT - Details to be announced.

November 2013

•11/13 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•11/14-15 ASLA CPC Meeting, Boston, MA

•11/15-18 ASLA Annual Conference, Boston, MA

•11/21 Executive Committee Meeting - 6 p.m., URS Corporation, 4225 Executive Sq., Ste. 1600, La Jolla.

•11/27 Stewardship Committee Meeting - Mesa College Design Center, 6 pm. Contact Tim Smith

December 2013

•12/1 January Newsletter Deadine - Articles Due to Secretary

•12/6 Annual Meeting/Holiday Event - Tentatively Bali Hai Restaurant. Details TBA.

•12/12 Exec Com Reports Due to Secretary

•12/19 Executive Committee Meeting - 5:30 p.m. conference call.

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Past Events

• 2010 Lecture Series

• 2011 Lecture Series


Tours / Outdoors
• Sat/Sun Landscape Design, Garden Tour

Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College, 12122 Cuyamaca College Drive West, El Cajon. Design: 8 am-12 pm Sat. Tour: 10:30 am Sat., 1:30 pm Sun. Free. For info call (619) 660-0614 ext. 10 or visit www.thegarden.org.

• Sat. San Diego Botanic Garden Guided Tours

10:30 am every Saturday; meet at the Visitors Center, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. Free with garden admission of $6 - 12. For info call (760) 436-3036 or visit www.sdbgarden.org

• Tue-Fri Huntington Botanical Gardens Guided Tour

10:30 am. A 45-minute walking tour of the gardens. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. $24 per person. For reservations call (626) 405-2126 or visit www.huntington.org.

• Daily Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden

About 1-1/2 hour drive from San Diego in Clarement on N. College Avenue, north of Foothill Blvd. & east of Indian Hill Blvd. Call (909) 625-8767 or visit www.rsabg.org.

• Daily Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve

Open daily sunrise to sunset. Enjoy grasslands, vernal pools and Engelmann oak woodlands. Adults $2, children over 12 $1. Docent-led nature walks first Saturday of the month (Nov.-Feb.) every Saturday (Mar.-May). For info call (909) 677-6951 or click here.

• Daily Big Morongo Canyon Preserve

Open daily 7:30 am to sunset. Cottonwoods and willows in the high desert. For info call (760) 363-7190 or visit www.bigmorongo.org

• Daily Coachella Valley Preserve

Open daily sunrise to sunset. Sand dunes, mesas, palm oases. Visitor Center open daily in winter, 8 am-5 pm. For info call (760) 343-1234 or visit www.coachellavalleypreserve.org/.

• Anytime Dos Palmas Oasis

Open daily sunrise to sunset. Low-elevation desert habitat at the base of the Salton Sea. For info call (760) 343-1234 or click here.

• Anytime Santa Cruz Island Preserve

Rugged scenery and unique native species. Day trips to the island. For reservations and info call Island Packers at (805) 642-1393 or click here.

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Committees

Stewardship Committee

Are you a LEED Accredited Professional? Are you working on your LEED Creditial? Are you interested in learning more about Sustainable Sites? If you are looking to further your knowledge or share innovative ideas, we encourage you to join the San Diego Chapter's Stewardship Committee. The Committee was initiated in 2009, and continues to investigate a more 'holistic' practice of Landscape Architecture. Join us as we coordinate Chapter events/educational workshops around the holistic perspective of Stewardship of the Land... and its inhabitants.

The Committee meets quarterly or as needed, either at member offices or via conference calls. Open to ASLA members, the Committee is well-supported by our ASLA Sponsors.

If you're interested in joining the Stewardship Committee, please contact Tim Smith, ASLA. 858.513.0030 or tim@wynn-smith.com

Residential Practitioners Committee

Working on your own? Need to bounce an idea off someone besides your pet or spouse? Need a book on something special, but don’t want to spend the money on it right now? Have an issue with your practice that you need some advice on? Want to discuss and share issues, ideas, and gain support from your peers in a supportive group setting?

The San Diego Chapter of ASLA is forming a Residential Practictioners Committeee (RPC) to combine resources (i.e. experience, expertise and physical resources) that will benefit the individual group members. The RPC will meet or connect via email/conference call to cover topics such as business development (marketing), technical issues, design, client issues, insurance, employees and project issues. Depending on the group interests, the group could be used as a “pooling of resources.” These shared resources would be available to each group member upon agreement of each member.

The committee is open to ASLA members that are practicing as individuals or up to a three person firm. The RPC committee will be structured with a chairperson to schedule and start the meetings. Committee members will provide topics of interest and the Chairperson will schedule topics into the committee calendar. The committee will determine the actual structure of meetings that best fits its members. Meetings could be structured as round table or workshops and coordinated to not conflict with ASLA Chapter events/programs.

If you are interested in joining the RPC, send your contact information to Rich Risner at rich@grounded101.com

 

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