Isabelle Minn, ASLA, LEED AP, Principal, is a Landscape Architect with over eighteen years of experience in community-based design and planning. Her work has focused on landscape architecture and urban design, with an emphasis on the protection of open space and natural resources, as well as on improving and greening our urban areas. She has managed a wide range of projects from large, open space master plans to urban forestry plans and site planning and design. She strives to create a balance between protecting resources and increasing public access. Ms. Minn has developed multidisciplinary studies addressing physical, biological, cultural, and policy issues that affect watersheds. She has also managed many trail planning and design projects, from large-scale trail master plans to construction documents, and she is an expert on the development of urban greening projects. Recently, Ms. Minn’s work has emphasized meeting park and open space needs in park poor communities. She served as the Principal-in-Charge of the Comprehensive Countywide Parks and Recreation Needs Assessment for the County of Los Angeles, the Concord Hills Regional Park Land Use Plan and EIR for East Bay Regional Park District, and the Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park General Plan for California State Parks. Sarah Gronquist, ASLA, BFQP, Associate Principal, has over 20 years of experience as a landscape architect, with a broad range of built work from Mendocino County to Silicon Valley. She has proven expertise in construction and permit documentation, and she is highly skilled in analysis and communication between disciplines, owners, and agencies. Through her extensive work in housing development and renovation, she has become adept at navigating requirements for ADA, pool health and safety, public egress, fire access, as well as negotiating with City and agency staff during contract documentation and construction. She is an experienced manager, successfully completing projects requiring cost-effective, durable design as well as those putting a premium on high design and aesthetics. She has managed commercial and institutional projects for non-profits and market rate developers, worked on residential projects for private owners, developed construction documents for publicly bid projects, and is skilled at understanding the unique needs of each client. Sarah provides design leadership and oversight for site-specific projects from preliminary design through construction. She was an early adopter of the Bay Area’s Bay-friendly watershed-based sustainable landscapes rating system, and continues to seek new ways to incorporate common-sense techniques for making landscapes more resilient and adapted to their environment while reducing water use and maintenance costs. She has also explored core design and construction issues with students and technical specialists. Her ongoing lecture practice serves as a vehicle for exploring emerging materials and technologies.
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