Charrette Participants

Ira Artz

Ira Artz is a civil engineer with over 18 years of experience in water resource planning, engineering and management projects. He is currently with the firm of Simons, Li & Associates in Costa Mesa, California where he combines the disciplines of hydraulics, environmental science and regulatory management in the analysis of flood control projects. Previous work experience includes 10 years with the Army Corps of Engineers. Mr. Artz has written on topics such as the availability of water for solar power plant cooling and the use of sewage sludge to rehabilitate impacted land in Southern California.

Simons, Li & Associates, 3150 Bristol St., Ste. 500, Costa Mesa, CA 92626, (714) 513-1280, FAX (713) 513-1278.

Gail Boyd

Gail Boyd is an engineer and senior consultant with Woodward-Clyde in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Boyd has developed state-of-the-art methods for stormwater and watershed management and is working on cutting-edge projects in the Pacific Northwest, California and Texas. He has been a policy advisor to the US EPA for over 20 years and served as manager of the agency's Nationwide Urban Runoff Program. He is a nationally recognized expert in evaluating and controlling water quality problems resulting from nonpoint source pollutants. He has managed controversial environmental impact studies including the Los Angeles to San Diego "bullet train," US Navy supersonic flight areas and bombing ranges, nuclear power facilities and major municipal "waste-to-energy" facilities. Mr. Boyd conducts workshops and planning sessions for municipal and industrial clients throughout the western states.

Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 111 S.W. Columbia, Ste. 990, Portland, OR 97201, (503) 222-7200, FAX (503) 222-4292.

Alan Cavacus

Alan Cavacus is an engineer with Woodward-Clyde Consultants in Santa Ana, California. He has over 19 years of experience in the environmental consulting practice. Clients include the EPA Office of Water and several private and municipal entities. He has extensive experience in flood plain and flood frequency analysis, urban hydrology and hydraulics and the evaluation of stormwater management techniques. Mr. Cavacus was the principal designer of a low environmental impact residential development in Maryland, which used a design approach involving planted areas integrated into drainage and grading designs to provide water control without the use of large and expensive structural measures. Recent projects have focussed on water quality in the areas of assessment, performance goal development, and management practices.

Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 2020 East First St., Ste. 400, Santa Ana, CA 92705, (714) 835-6886, FAX (714) 667-7147.

Patrick Condon

Patrick Condon is a member of the University of British Columbia Landscape Architecture Faculty. He currently holds the UBC James Taylor Chair in Landscapes and Liveable Environments. In that capacity he has organized a series of international design charrettes for urban sustainability. From 1981 to 1983 he was the Director of Community Development for the City of Westfield, Massachusetts and from 1984-1991 he taught landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota. He has won awards for his teaching and research and has published and lectured widely on sustainable urban design and landscape design theory. He is a partner in the design and planning firm of Moriarty/Condon Ltd.

Moriarty/Condon Landscape Architects & Planners Ltd., 1661 West 2nd Ave., Ste. 102, Vancouver, BC V6J 1H3 (604) 737-6987, FAX (604) 730-0056.

John Connell

John Connell is an architect and owner of the Yestermorrow Building Group in Warren, Vermont, a firm that designs and builds art, environments and educational situations that promote higher awareness of human behavior within the natural environment. Recent projects include: kinetic sculpture from recycled materials for Ben & Jerry's theme park and the design and construction of a biological waste treatment greenhouse for four single family homes. Mr. Connell founded the Yestermorrow Design/Build School to teach the design of energy-conserving, environmentally-sound homes. He is the author of Homing Instinct and has spoken and taught at a number of colleges and universities.

YBG, Inc., Box 344, Warren, VT 05674, (802) 496-5546, FAX (802) 496-6280.

Bernadette Cozart

Bernadette Cozart is Executive Director of the Greening of Harlem Coalition and is a gardener for the Department of Parks and Recreation of New York City. Transforming public spaces, such as abandoned buildings, vacant lots, and tree pits is the focus of the coalition. These sites become ecologically sound, viable spaces for community interaction and industry, such as growing organic produce to be made into salsas, jellies, etc. Ms. Cozart's background is in horticulture with an emphasis on botany.

300 Riverside Dr., Apt. 10-H, New York, NY 10025, (212) 254-2870.

Owen Dell

Owen Dell is a nationally recognized licensed landscape architect and contractor. He is the owner of County Landscape & Design in Santa Barbara, California, specializing in sustainable landscape design and construction. Mr. Dell teaches and lectures around the country on sustainable landscaping, fire safety and other topics. He is the author of How to Open and Operate a Home-Based Landscaping Business and is a regular contributor to Sunset Magazine and other publications. Mr. Dell is president of Small Wilderness Area Preserves, Inc. and is a member of the board of directors of The Sustainability Project. He has received numerous awards for his work and community activism.

County Landscape & Design, 234 Mesa Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93107, (805) 962-3253, FAX (805) 962-6603.

Kate Diamond

Kate Diamond is the nationally recognized and award winning proprietor of Siegel Diamond Architecture. Her projects include: the LAX Air Traffic Control Tower, the award-winning design for the new Universal City Metro Red Line Subway Station, the University of California, Irvine Student Services Addition and the New Jefferson Elementary School (both published in Architecture ). Ms. Diamond was the first woman president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. She has presented lectures all over the U.S. on topics such as: "Reinventing the California Dream - Coming to Terms with Density", "The Art of Architecture in the Social Ecology", and "Transportation Facility Design as an Act of Placemaking."

Siegel Diamond Architects, 605 West Olympic Blvd., #820, Los Angeles, CA 90015, (213) 627-7170, FAX (213) 627-7069.

Michael Drennan

Michael Drennan is president of Michael Drennan Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in water quality and civil and environmental engineering. Mr. Drennan has devoted his career to managing issues associated with wastewater discharge permit writing and implementation. He is an expert in the fields of stormwater quality policy, water quality regulation, and pollutant source reduction. He has been actively involved in educating the public about water quality in public hearings, radio and television talk shows, informal workshops and conferences. He has provided consulting services to many of California's largest municipal stormwater management programs and is currently assisting the Santa Clara Valley Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program in their efforts to educate the public and stakeholders.

Michael Drennan Associates, Inc., 4060 Harclare Ln., Encino, CA 91436, (818) 784-0035, FAX (818) 784-0036.

Bruce Ferguson

Bruce Ferguson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Georgia. He is a landscape architect who has specialized in environmental management of urban watersheds for twenty years. His book, Stormwater Infiltration, is the standard professional reference in its field. He conducts stormwater management continuing education courses for designers and lectures at universities throughout the US. Consulting projects include: conservation of irrigation water on the lawn of the White House and site design guidelines to protect run off quality in the states of California, Florida, Georgia and New York.

School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, Caldwell Hall, Athens, GA 30602-1845, (706) 828-6373, FAX (706) 542-4236.

Colin Franklin

Colin Franklin is an architect, landscape architect and ecological planner. Since 1975, he has been principal at Andropogon Associates, Ltd. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has a career-long involvement in the design of new towns and is active in the movement to develop sustainable communities both nationally and internationally. Mr. Franklin is an advisor to the World Bank, creating environmental design strategies for land development and management. He has worked in Iran, Sri Lanka, West Pakistan and the South Pacific. Currently, he is working on a major new city in the Middle East and is a participant in the 'Green Building' program, a sustainable design initiative in Bozeman, Montana. He has lectured and published articles on the historic values and planning guidelines that preserve community and park landscapes.

Andropogon Associates, Ltd., 374 Shurs Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19128, (215) 487-0700, FAX (215) 483-7520.

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is a businessman, environmentalist and author. He has founded several companies including Smith & Hawken, the garden retail and catalog company. He serves as Chairman of The Natural Step, a non-profit educational foundation whose purpose is to develop and share a common framework comprised of easily understood, scientifically-based principles that can serve as a compass to guide society toward a sustainable future. Mr. Hawken is the author of several books published in over 50 countries, including the best-selling, Ecology of Commerce (1993). His book, Growing a Business, became the basis of a PBS series which Mr. Hawken hosted and produced. The program explored socially responsive companies and is shown on television in over 115 countries.

South 40 Pier, No. 20; Sausalito, CA 94965, (415) 332-5124, FAX (415) 332-7933, Hawken@well.com.

Kristina Hill

Kristina Hill is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship for her study of the ecological impacts of agricultural development in southern Sweden using computerized mapping and assessment techniques and the American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award. Her current research interests include spatial patterns of land use and their impacts on environmental sustainability and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to trace ecologically-significant changes in land use during regional development.

Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bldg. 10-485, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, (617) 253-7305, khill@mit.edu.

Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy is the Chief Forester for the City of Los Angeles Street Tree Division, managing the largest, most diverse urban forest in the world. He is a certified arborist, landscape contractor and pest control advisor. He also has a private landscape contracting and maintenance business. Mr. Kennedy has written articles for the Journal of Arboriculture and has lectured on urban forest issues and proper arboricultural practices throughout Southern California. He has has served on many important city committees including Stormwater Management, Recycling and Planning, Greenway and Open Space and Community Forest Advisory. He has also worked to educate high school students and young adults about the urban forest, teaching classes in environmental issues and fundamentals of plant and nursery management.

Street Tree Division, City of Los Angeles, 200 North Main St., City Hall East, Room 1550, Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 485-5675, FAX (213) 237-0158.

Thomas A. Larson

Thomas Larson is president and owner of Integrated Urban Forestry. He has over 25 years of experience in the landscape and nursery business. Mr. Larson leads project teams, assigns personnel, and performs field reconnaissance. He is also responsible for a large part of IUF's business development. Mr. Larson's work experience includes Park Supervisor for the Kern County Special District of Parks & Recreation. He has served as the President of Urban Foresty Consultants, General Manager for SeaTree Nurseries, and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Keeline-Wilcox Nurseries. Mr. Larson serves as a member of the Cost-Benefit Model team of the T.R.E.E.S. Project with Jones & Stokes Associates.

Integrated Urban Forestry, 23421 South Pointe Dr., Ste. 170, Laguna Hills, CA 92653, (714) 837-5692, FAX (714) 837-4431.

Mia Lehrer

Mia Lehrer is a partner in the landscape architecture and urban design firm of Peter Walker William Johnson and Partners. She has been involved in the planning and design of landscapes whose scale has varied from the coast of El Salvador to residential gardens. She is currently working on the design of Bosque Los Pericos, the largest public park in the city of San Salvador, as well as the renovation of Barnsdall Park in Los Angeles and a series of urban open spaces in Berlin, Germany.

Peter Walker William Johnson and Partners, 811 West 7th St., Ste. 910, Los Angeles, CA 90017, (213) 892-8686, FAX (213) 892-8787.

Jacob Lipa

Jacob Lipa is a civil engineer and the principal of Psomas & Associates. He has over 21 years experience with all phases of the design and management of civil engineering projects with emphasis upon analysis of hydrological and flooding issues. He manages the design team for wetlands design, storm drain facilities and planning for Playa Vista, Los Angeles, a 1,000-acre master-planned mixed use facility. He has conducted numerous flood plain studies and design of flood control systems. He has extensive experience in the design and modeling of water quality aspects both from urban runoff and from construction and dredging activities.

Psomas & Associates, 3420 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405, (310) 450-1217, FAX (310) 452-7411.

Andy Lipkis

Andy Lipkis founded and has been president of TreePeople for twenty years. TreePeople is a guiding light for the rapidly-growing citizen forestry movement in this country. Mr. Lipkis' creative programs include airlifting bare root trees to Africa, inspiring the planting of one million trees in LA before the 1984 Summer Olympics, numerous disaster relief efforts during flood and fire, and many versions of training designed to increase the number of citizens involved in urban tree planting and care. Mr. Lipkis and his wife and colleague, Katie Lipkis, were named to the UN Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour and also holds American Forests' Lifetime Achievement Award.

TreePeople, 12601 Mullholland Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210, (818) 753-4600, FAX (818) 753-4625.

Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart is an attorney specializing in Environmental Law. She is a private consultant on biological and policy issues related to proposed developments which would either impact wetlands or endangered species. She provides input for project design, develops wetland and habitat restoration plans, prepares biological baseline information and impact assessments and prepares permit applications. Formerly, she was a biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

7943 East Santa Cruz Avenue, Orange, CA 92869, (714) 289-1817, FAX (714) 289-1907, LockhartSJ@AOL.com.

Hoi Luc

Hoi Luc is an architect for the City of Los Angeles. He is responsible for all aspects of design projects from concept to construction. He has worked for the city for seven years and his projects include the Wilshire Area Police Station, the South Central Constituents Service Center, the Temporary 77th Street Police Station, and the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant Warehouse. Mr. Luc has worked as an architect for 10 years and has designed buildings for both commercial and industrial clients.

Architectural Division, Bureau of Engineering, City of Los Angeles, 600 South Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90014, (213) 847-3741.

John Lyle

John Lyle is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, where he initiated the Master of Landscape Architecture program. His design interests include ecological bases for design and planning and design applications of regenerative systems. Mr. Lyle has designed water conservation plans for several California cities, created a Landscape Management Plan for endangered species recovery for the US Navy. His private practice clients include Appalachian Ministries Educational Resource Center and Oberlin College. His articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Landscape Architecture, and Nikkei Design. He has lectured throughout the US and in Brazil and Greece. John Lyle passed away in July of 1998 prior to the publication of this document. We were truly fortunate to have had the benefit of his expertise during this charrette.

Leo Marmol

Leo Marmol is a founding partner of Marmol & Radziner, a Santa Monica, California architecture and construction firm that has designed projects for public agencies, non-profit organizations and private clients. Recent projects include the Mark Taper Center/Inner City Arts, which provides arts education for 4,300 elementary children and a design for the Sheenway School and Cultural Center, which includes elderly housing, a school, clinic and childcare center. The firm is undertaking the restoration of the Neutra-designed Kauffmann House in Palm Springs and is designing a sustainable house in Colorado, which will utilize environmental technology and non-toxic building materials. The firm's work has appeared in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, the New York Times and other publications.

Marmol & Radziner, Architecture & Construction, 1631 21st Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404, (310) 264-1814, FAX (310)264-1817.

Greg McPherson

Greg McPherson is a Research Forester and Project Leader for the Pacific Southwest Research Station's Western Center for Urban Forest Research and Education. His research focuses on the measurement and modelling of urban forest benefits and costs, with particular emphasis on energy, carbon and water use. Dr. McPherson served as lead scientist on the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project from 1991-94. He was instrumental in the just-completed Sacramento Urban Forest Eco-Systems Study. Both projects analyze the link between the urban forest and the environmental and economic benefits it provides. The data is used by cities throughout the US.

USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Western Center for Urban Forest Research and Education, Department of Environmental Horticulture, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8587, (916) 752-5897, FAX (916) 752-6634.

Jeff Olson

Jeff Olson is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at CalPoly Pomona, where he began teaching in 1974. His areas of interest are primarily related to ecologically-based land planning and design and to methods of visual analysis. He is the author of a computer database for native and cultivated plants in California. His professional experience includes private practice in California, Alberta and British Columbia. He has taught at the University of Arizona and has lectured in Canada, Mexico and Italy.

CalPoly Pomona, Department of Landscape Architecture, Pomona, CA 91768, (909) 869-2685, FAX (909) 869-4460.

Tom Richman

Tom Richman is principal of Tom Richman & Associates (TR & A), an urban design/ landscape architecture firm in Palo Alto, California. The firm is bringing its focus on self-renewing landscapes to public streetscapes, campus design and the renovation of commercial districts. The firm has won multiple national ASLA awards for projects such as an urban forestry and traffic calming plan for a Bay Area neighborhood. TR & A recently completed Start at the Source-Residential Site Planning & Design Guidance Manual for Stormwater Quality Protection for the Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association. The design techniques in the document are presented to municipal planners, engineers, public works officials and developers in workshops led by the firm.

Tom Richman and Associates, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, 654 Gilman St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, (415) 462-8880; FAX (415) 325-1018.

Bill Roley

Bill Roley is the director of the Permaculture Institute of Southern California. He is an applied ecologist and planner. He believes edible landscaping and agroforestry concepts need to be the wave of the future in urban planning. He has consulted for the City of Irvine to create a landscape and composting ordinance, the City of Malibu in wastewater nutrient cycling, and the Palo Comado watershed of the Jordan Ranch in the new City of Agoura. Mr. Roley designed Leisure World's yard waste composting project and is consulting on green waste management experiments for Orange, Los Angeles, and Ventura Counties. His international work encompasses teaching, design and installation skills for agroforestry and sustainable landscapes in Mexico. Specific projects include landscaping for an orphanage in Tijuana and an ecotourist biopreserve in the Yucatan.

1027 Summit Way, Laguna Beach, CA 92651, (714) 494-1443, FAX (714) 497-9322.

Leslie Ryan

Leslie Ryan has a private practice in landscape architecture, community and environmental planning and public art based in Oakland, California. Some current projects include the conceptual design for an urban plaza and roof terrace gardens for the San Diego New Main Library and the renovation of a Waldorf charter school to reflect the environmental philosophy of founder Rudolph Steiner. Ms. Ryan recently completed a one-year fellowship and residency at the American Academy in Rome, focusing on historical places of healing and restoration. Her award-winning designs have appeared in Landscape Architecture and Time. Her public artwork has been installed in San Diego and Rome.

3326 Birdsall Avenue, Oakland, CA 94619, (510) 532-5666, FAX (510) 532-5666.

Larry Smith

Larry Smith is an urban forest planner with the Davey Resource Group. Mr. Smith has been involved with community-based projects as well as all aspects of the Green Industry for the past 14 years. He is the Chair of the Los Angeles Community Forest Advisory Committee and Project Director for the City of Los Angeles Street Tree Inventory Management System project. He recently developed and managed the "Urban Forest Ecosystem Partnership Summit" in LA. As a team member of the recent Los Angeles River Computer Design Charrette, he examined alternative design solutions that addressed the environmental quality objectives of the Los Angeles River Master Plan.

14311 Addison St., No. 312, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, (818) 981-7176, FAX (818) 981-9808.

Christine Theodoropoulos

Christine Theodoropoulos is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. She teaches courses in architectural design and structures. She is a registered civil engineer and architect. Her research interests include the development of teaching materials and methods in the practice, theory and history of structural technology in architecture with particular emphasis on seismic design. She is the director of the Neutra VDL Research House in Los Angeles.

2351 Edgewater Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90039, (909) 869-2690, FAX (909) 869-2683.

Susan Van Atta

Susan Van Atta is principal of Van Atta Associates, a landscape architecture firm based in Santa Barbara, California. In addition to designing landscapes, she specializes in natural resource analysis and restoration as well as historical restoration. She is a founding member of The Sustainability Project Board of Directors of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the AIA and a member of the Innovative Building Review Committee of the County of Santa Barbara. Some of her awards include: Santa Barbara Beautiful Design Award, awards for Art in Public Places in San Luis Obispo and Inspiration Point in Newport Beach. She has been a guest lecturer at CalPoly San Luis Obispo, the University of California and other institutions.

Van Atta & Associates, 519 Fig Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 730-7444.

Jeff Wallace

Jeff Wallace is an independent contractor responsible for designing, managing, and programming the Cost-Benefits Model for the T.R.E.E.S. Project. Mr. Wallace was one of the early members of Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, and uses his fifteen years of technical and project management experience to provide innovative, easy-to-use computer-based tools for analysis and simulation of environmental systems. He has a BS in Computer Science, an MBA and MFA in film.

EarthView Computing, 261A Cumberland Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, (415) 864-0431 FAX (415) 864-0638, EarthView@worldnet.att.net.

Peter Warshall

Peter Warshall is a biologist, anthropologist and writer. He runs his own consulting firm and serves as editor-in-chief of Whole Earth Review. His training and experience includes natural history, natural resource management (especially watersheds, wastewater, and wildlife), conservation biology, biodiversity assessments and conflict resolution. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations, US AID, the Apache people of Arizona and major transnationals such as Chlorox and SAS Airlines. He designed one of the first zero-discharge constructed wetland sewage systems. His articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Orion, River Voices, SPIN and Animal Kingdom.

Whole Earth Review, 1408 Mission Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901, (415) 332-1716, FAX (415) 332-3116.

Bill Wenk

Bill Wenk is president of Wenk Associates Inc., a planning and landscape architecture firm based in Denver, Colorado. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is a member of the Conservation Funds National Forum on Non-point Source Water Pollution. His firm's work along urban rivers and streams has been recognized nationally and internationally for its environmental responsibility, and for the integration of urban and natural systems.

Wenk & Associates, 1035 Cherokee St., Denver, CO 80204, (303) 628-0003, FAX (303) 628-0004.