As one of the largest practicing groups of Landscape Architects in the Commonwealth, we regularly lead multi-disciplinary design teams on projects that have a direct impact on the public health, safety, and welfare of our citizens. Licensure for our profession is the most critical form of regulation to ensure that the public is adequately protected, ensuring that untrained, uneducated individuals are not engaged in our professional practice.
Our work for Federal, State, and Local governments hinges on the licensure of our professionals, requiring complex services from highly skilled and competent individuals. We also work as critical team members on Healthcare, Commercial, Energy/Renewables, Parks/Recreation, Water Resources, and Infrastructure projects that require licensed Landscape Architects to prepare drawings, author specifications, obtain required jurisdictional approvals, and apply for necessary permits that are aimed at protecting the public well-being.
It is for these reasons and many others stated through supporting letters, that we request that you continue to license Landscape Architects in Virginia to assure that we are valued as equal professionals to our allied Architectural and Engineering disciplines with whom we work alongside daily. The health and safety of our residents are at stake and it is critical that Landscape Architects remain licensed to protect and to serve them.
Best,
Scott Wiley, ASLA
Principal, Timmons Group
1001 Boulders Pwy., Suite 300
Richmond, VA 23225