Landscape Design Consulting - Blog

Landscape Design Consulting creates beautiful landscapes with a special emphasis on water, stone, and plants. Our president, Sean Walters, is a professional landscape architect with decades of multidisciplinary experience informing the unique ability to view a project through multiple lenses simultaneously. This enables Sean to function as a single point of contact across all relevant variables, thereby cultivating the holistic methodology on which sustainable practice is bas

Projects in today's landscape are governed by a variety of agencies that often trigger the requirement for teams of consultants in order to obtain approvals. Landscape Design Consulting will recommend entities from our professional network with whom we will coordinate our services in order to shepherd our clients' interests through the regulatory minefield that has become increasingly challenging to navigate.

Zoning refers to general regulations that apply to all properties. Examples include setback distances from property lines to various man - made features like houses and swimming pools, allowable impervious surface coverage (as a percentage of a lot), and height restrictions for buildings, fences, and walls. Zoning is a system of checks and balances that help to level the playing field, keep things fair, and prevent activities on one property from adversely affecting neighbori