I am writing to strongly support the continued licensure of Landscape Architects in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As a Virginia resident and practicing design professional in Virginia for over 18 years, I can attest to the importance of the licensure of Landscape Architects and their direct responsibility to the health, safety, and welfare of all Virginia residents. I am the founder and COO of a 15-person Norfolk-based Landscape Architecture professional services firm with secondary licensed disciplines in Architecture, Planning and Civil Engineering. Many of my current and former employees at minimum hold a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, and the majority hold advanced graduate degrees in the field, including from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the University of Virginia. Additionally, our firm attracts and employs highly educated and trained individuals from across the United States and internationally to work and live in Virginia with the common goal of providing a superior level of professional services on public sector projects that protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public.

Our firm’s work encompasses brownfields redevelopment, stormwater infrastructure, resiliency, multi-modal transportation, parks, recreation, community planning, commercial, and institutional development. The majority of our clients are local governments and their associated communities where we, the Landscape Architects, are the leading discipline in charge of overseeing large, multi-faceted, and highly complex projects. Our current work applies our expertise in public sector and redevelopment efforts in revitalizing environmentally constrained and vulnerable properties and repositioning those properties for redevelopment. Our expertise enables us to create responsive and adaptive plans that serve communities and protect the public against concerns like increased storm severity and frequency, recurrent flooding, and sea level rise. Our profession is the most well-trained and equipped to solve these critical societal needs through innovative and green stormwater infrastructure solutions, economic development-focused transportation strategies, public health, wellness, and education-driven civic open space and recreation facilities. These services provide a restorative environment and create inclusivity within the communities and environments in which we work, in Virginia and across the United States.  The profession of Landscape Architecture, as the leading discipline of stewards of the land, is desperately needed and must continue in Virginia. Only through the assurances that licensure of the profession provides can we truly preserve and protect our communities, our neighborhoods, and our families. All Virginians require and deserve improved civic, cultural, recreational, and natural systems that are responsibly designed by well-educated and trained professional Landscape Architects.

We strongly request that you continue to license Landscape Architects in Virginia, and throughout the United States, in order to assure the Virginia general public continue to receive competent landscape architectural services from highly educated, trained, and tested Landscape Architects. 

Thank you,

Timothy J. Stromberg, PLA, ASLA

COO / Founding Principal

Stromberg Garrigan & Associates, Inc.

300 E. Main Street, Suite 1400

Norfolk, Virginia 23510