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Landscape Design Consulting, or LDC, designs visionary landscapes with a special emphasis on water, stone, and plants. LDC's 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 prac

Projects in today's landscape are governed by numerous constraints that can trigger regulatory oversight - with teams of consultants often required in order to obtain jurisdictional approvals. Landscape Design Consulting will recommend entities from our professional network with whom we will coordinate our services to shepherd our clients' projects 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