To Whom it may concern:

My name is Gerald Eastridge and I have been a licensed Landscape Architect since 1982

I have practiced in the Civil Planning and Design Land Development Profession, first as Staff Landscape Architect, then Senior and Project Manager Landscape Architect, Director of Planning Departments (2X), Director of the Land Development and then as Office Director of the DC Regional Office for an East Coast Multidisciplinary Firm.

In these roles, my Virginia Licensure has provided the Professional Legal Status to both manage and work cooperatively on multiple teams which have included equally licensed Architects, Engineers, Surveyors, as well as many related support specialties such as Geologists, Hydrologists, Archaeologists, Wetlands Specialists, Acoustics, Foresters, and on.

Project types have included Federal, State and Local Municipal, Commercial Retail and Office, Planned Community, Single and Multi-family Residential,  Industrial, Higher Education, International Commercial Sports, Parks and Recreational, among others - and primarily practiced within Virginia.

The above roles have been enabled by my registration as a licensed Landscape Architect in Virginia, my lifelong home state and primary base of my practice.

Services I have provided over the last 42 years include Comprehensive Planning, Land Planning and Urban Design, Site Civil-related Land Development Design (including layout, grading, stormwater, utilities, roadway, and erosion control, wetlands) and Environmental Sustainability/Resilience.

These services have been practiced by me over the last four decades and through the present within my own firm in Radford, VA.

I cannot overstate the importance of my Virginia Landscape Architectural Licensure to the progression and success of my career. As well, at Virginia Tech in the early Seventies, it served as the worthy aspiration which drew me into this noble profession and drove me to achieve my Undergraduate Degree in Landscape Architecture from VA Tech in 1976.

Without such allure, I would not likely have pursued the profession and, I believe, the Health Safety and Welfare of the citizenry of the Commonwealth would have been less well served. Which common goal, I believe we share!

In closing, I think that with the instituting of my Landscape architectural licensure by the Commonwealth, four decades ago did set my professional life, as a Virginian, on this successful path of serving the citizenry and communities of the Commonwealth - to great positive effect, via the Professional Landscape Architectural Practice that my Virginia licensure opened to me that, likely, would not have occurred otherwise.

Respectfully and with Warm Regards,

Gerald C. Eastridge LLA

GSPH LLC

4490 Dry Valley Road

Radford, Virginia 24141

703-403-7682