As Del Mar’s planning and community development director, Kathy Garcia oversees current and advanced planning, code enforcement, the building department and the Clean Water program.

A landscape architect for nearly three decades, Kathleen Garcia brought years of experience to Del Mar when she signed on as the city’s planning and community development director in 2010.

“I thought it would be an excellent challenge and something that I would learn a lot from, which it surely has been,” Garcia said with a smile during in an interview in April, which was National Landscape Architecture Month.

“I had a lot of skills that I could bring,” she added. “This was a city that was ready to implement a lot of things. It had a lot of things that had been on the backburner.”

Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.delmartimes.net/news/2016/may/08/del-mar-planning-director-kathleen-garcia/

Kathy is also featured in the latest SD Metro Magazine in the section “Women Who Make an Impact.” The story is on page 13 at the link below:
https://issuu.com/chrissdnews/docs/sd_metro_no4_volxxxi_2016_reduced?e=1076213/36250785