Pacific Coast Land Design, Inc.

Ventura, California
Photo Credits: Eric Berg, PCLD, Except where noted
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Kellogg Park; Ventura, CA
Kellogg Park transformed a long-vacant, 2.4-acre parcel on Ventura's westside into a community-centered neighborhood park. PCLD led the project from concept through construction documents, community presentations, and construction support, shaping a design that reflects local identity while addressing infrastructure needs. The park's innovative "river" stormwater swale functions as a sand-filter BMP, visual organizing element, and playfully interpretive reference to the nearby Ventura River. A quarter-mile walking loop, amphitheater, community garden, playground, exercise equipment, game tables, public art, native planting, minimal turf, and water-efficient irrigation create a highly usable, multigenerational park. The project received a 2018 SoCal ASLA Honor Award and a 2019 SCAG Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award Photo Credit: Shawn Jones

Valentine Road Permanent Supportive Housing; Ventura, CA
Valentine Road Permanent Supportive Housing converts a former 142-room hotel into 134 studio apartments for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. PCLD crafted site and landscape improvements that transform an institutional lodging property into a stable residential community. The innovative adaptive project is supported by dignified outdoor spaces, including a flexible communal courtyard for gathering, respite, and day-to-day resident life, as well as gardening spaces and outdoor recreation amenities. The broader project includes on-site supportive services, case management, behavioral health resources, employment support, property management, and maintenance staffing. Funded in part through Project Homekey, the project demonstrates how landscape and site design can support long-term housing stability.

Westview Village; Ventura, CA
Westview Village is a multi-phase affordable housing redevelopment that reimagines Ventura County's oldest public housing as a connected, resilient neighborhood. PCLD shaped the site planning, landscape, public realm, and community open spaces to deliver 280 affordable rental homes while allowing residents to remain on site during construction. The project's innovative Village Way living street links courtyards, parks, homes, and civic amenities while integrating bioswales, stormwater planters, a stormwater amphitheater, edible gardens, shade trees, and gathering spaces. More than 400 new trees, graywater reuse, solar integration, and net-zero energy strategies support long-term resilience. The project received a 2025 ASLA Southern California Honor Award.

Arroyo Verde Park; Ventura; CA

 
After the Thomas Fire destroyed one of Arroyo Verde Park's playgrounds, PCLD helped the City of Ventura create its first inclusive playground rather than simply replace what was lost. PCLD led the project from concept through construction, facilitated community input, and assisted with fundraising that totaled more than $450,000. The design uses the park's canyon topography to create inclusive access to embankment slides and upper play decks, expanding inclusivity beyond ground-level accessible features. The 10,000-square-foot playground includes sensory gardens, inclusive swings, music, balance elements, hammocks, a pole fort, climbing, ground-level activities, and stormwater infiltration planting. The project received APWA Ventura County and National Project of the Year awards.

Ventura River Trail Improvements; Ventura, CA
The Ventura River Trail Improvements Project upgraded 1.85 miles of existing multi-use trail through Ventura's Westside neighborhood. PCLD helped identify the opportunity, support the city's first Clean California Local Grant Program application, lead community engagement, and deliver the project as prime design consultant. The design combines trail rehabilitation with placemaking, green infrastructure, solar lighting, accessible access points, architectural fencing, interpretive wayfinding, and public art coordination. Improvements include repaving, two accessible trail access locations, more than 250 drought-tolerant trees, and solar lights. The project received the 2024 APWA Ventura County Chapter Project of the Year Award for Transportation.

Pierpont Elementary; Ventura, CA
Pierpont Elementary transformed a failing beachfront school quad dominated by cracked asphalt into a shaded, accessible, multifunctional campus landscape. PCLD guided the redesign through school district approvals, construction documentation, and construction administration, addressing layered asphalt, clay over beach sand, chronic drainage, and persistent ponding. The design connects roof drainage to raingarden planters that quickly infiltrate through native beach sand below the planting soil. New paving, universal accessibility, a stage, built-in seating, trees, low-water shrubs and flowers, subsurface weather-based irrigation, and outdoor gathering areas support assemblies, recess, outdoor learning, and daily pickup and drop-off. The project turns a problem area into a durable schoolyard amenity.

Old Town Newhall; Santa Clarita, CA
Old Town Newhall repositioned Santa Clarita's historic downtown as a walkable, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented village that is connected to regional transit and grounded in local identity. PCLD provided design and construction administration for phased streetscape improvements, including curb configuration, parking, hardscape, planting, irrigation, lighting, signage, accessibility upgrades, and roundabout improvements. The design draws from Newhall's layered history - including the Tataviam people as well as railroad, oil, and film industries - with boardwalk paving, Walk of Western Stars terrazzo insets, wayfinding stations, and boulder seating. Innovative stormwater-filtering sidewalk planters, subsurface weather-based irrigation, native-character planting, and increased hardscape permeability modernized the district. The roundabout phase received 2014 APWA recognition for Project of the Year and Best Improvement for Public Safety.

Pardall Gardens; Isla Vista, CA
Pardall Gardens converts a 7,000-square-foot vacant lot along Isla Vista's busiest pedestrian and bicycle corridor into a small but high-impact public space. PCLD supported IVRPD's California State Parks funding documentation, then developed an engagement strategy that met application needs while giving residents a direct voice in design priorities. "Peaceful Pardall" - as it was coined during the design phase - now includes decomposed granite walks, a wood bridge, xeriscape planting, benches, picnic tables, lighting, and flexible gathering spaces. The result is a visible micro-park shaped by everyday users and the community.

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Kellogg Park; Ventura, CA
Kellogg Park transformed a long-vacant, 2.4-acre parcel on Ventura's westside into a community-centered neighborhood park. PCLD led the project from concept through construction documents, community presentations, and construction support, shaping a design that reflects local identity while addressing infrastructure needs. The park's innovative "river" stormwater swale functions as a sand-filter BMP, visual organizing element, and playfully interpretive reference to the nearby Ventura River. A quarter-mile walking loop, amphitheater, community garden, playground, exercise equipment, game tables, public art, native planting, minimal turf, and water-efficient irrigation create a highly usable, multigenerational park. The project received a 2018 SoCal ASLA Honor Award and a 2019 SCAG Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability Award Photo Credit: Shawn Jones

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Valentine Road Permanent Supportive Housing; Ventura, CA
Valentine Road Permanent Supportive Housing converts a former 142-room hotel into 134 studio apartments for individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness. PCLD crafted site and landscape improvements that transform an institutional lodging property into a stable residential community. The innovative adaptive project is supported by dignified outdoor spaces, including a flexible communal courtyard for gathering, respite, and day-to-day resident life, as well as gardening spaces and outdoor recreation amenities. The broader project includes on-site supportive services, case management, behavioral health resources, employment support, property management, and maintenance staffing. Funded in part through Project Homekey, the project demonstrates how landscape and site design can support long-term housing stability.

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Westview Village; Ventura, CA
Westview Village is a multi-phase affordable housing redevelopment that reimagines Ventura County's oldest public housing as a connected, resilient neighborhood. PCLD shaped the site planning, landscape, public realm, and community open spaces to deliver 280 affordable rental homes while allowing residents to remain on site during construction. The project's innovative Village Way living street links courtyards, parks, homes, and civic amenities while integrating bioswales, stormwater planters, a stormwater amphitheater, edible gardens, shade trees, and gathering spaces. More than 400 new trees, graywater reuse, solar integration, and net-zero energy strategies support long-term resilience. The project received a 2025 ASLA Southern California Honor Award.

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Arroyo Verde Park; Ventura; CA
After the Thomas Fire destroyed one of Arroyo Verde Park's playgrounds, PCLD helped the City of Ventura create its first inclusive playground rather than simply replace what was lost. PCLD led the project from concept through construction, facilitated community input, and assisted with fundraising that totaled more than $450,000. The design uses the park's canyon topography to create inclusive access to embankment slides and upper play decks, expanding inclusivity beyond ground-level accessible features. The 10,000-square-foot playground includes sensory gardens, inclusive swings, music, balance elements, hammocks, a pole fort, climbing, ground-level activities, and stormwater infiltration planting. The project received APWA Ventura County and National Project of the Year awards.

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Ventura River Trail Improvements; Ventura, CA
The Ventura River Trail Improvements Project upgraded 1.85 miles of existing multi-use trail through Ventura's Westside neighborhood. PCLD helped identify the opportunity, support the city's first Clean California Local Grant Program application, lead community engagement, and deliver the project as prime design consultant. The design combines trail rehabilitation with placemaking, green infrastructure, solar lighting, accessible access points, architectural fencing, interpretive wayfinding, and public art coordination. Improvements include repaving, two accessible trail access locations, more than 250 drought-tolerant trees, and solar lights. The project received the 2024 APWA Ventura County Chapter Project of the Year Award for Transportation.

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Pierpont Elementary; Ventura, CA
Pierpont Elementary transformed a failing beachfront school quad dominated by cracked asphalt into a shaded, accessible, multifunctional campus landscape. PCLD guided the redesign through school district approvals, construction documentation, and construction administration, addressing layered asphalt, clay over beach sand, chronic drainage, and persistent ponding. The design connects roof drainage to raingarden planters that quickly infiltrate through native beach sand below the planting soil. New paving, universal accessibility, a stage, built-in seating, trees, low-water shrubs and flowers, subsurface weather-based irrigation, and outdoor gathering areas support assemblies, recess, outdoor learning, and daily pickup and drop-off. The project turns a problem area into a durable schoolyard amenity.

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Old Town Newhall; Santa Clarita, CA
Old Town Newhall repositioned Santa Clarita's historic downtown as a walkable, mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented village that is connected to regional transit and grounded in local identity. PCLD provided design and construction administration for phased streetscape improvements, including curb configuration, parking, hardscape, planting, irrigation, lighting, signage, accessibility upgrades, and roundabout improvements. The design draws from Newhall's layered history - including the Tataviam people as well as railroad, oil, and film industries - with boardwalk paving, Walk of Western Stars terrazzo insets, wayfinding stations, and boulder seating. Innovative stormwater-filtering sidewalk planters, subsurface weather-based irrigation, native-character planting, and increased hardscape permeability modernized the district. The roundabout phase received 2014 APWA recognition for Project of the Year and Best Improvement for Public Safety.

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Pardall Gardens; Isla Vista, CA
Pardall Gardens converts a 7,000-square-foot vacant lot along Isla Vista's busiest pedestrian and bicycle corridor into a small but high-impact public space. PCLD supported IVRPD's California State Parks funding documentation, then developed an engagement strategy that met application needs while giving residents a direct voice in design priorities. "Peaceful Pardall" - as it was coined during the design phase - now includes decomposed granite walks, a wood bridge, xeriscape planting, benches, picnic tables, lighting, and flexible gathering spaces. The result is a visible micro-park shaped by everyday users and the community.

Pacific Coast Land Design, Inc. (PCLD) has been shaping public spaces throughout Southern California since 1983, providing landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental design services from its studio in downtown Ventura. Rooted in the coastal communities of Ventura, Santa Barbara, and northern Los Angeles Counties, the firm has built its practice around regional knowledge, long-standing public agency relationships, and a commitment to design that serves both people and place. PCLD's work spans parks, trails, affordable housing, civic landscapes, schools, streetscapes, and community infrastructure, often integrating grant support, public engagement, and sustainable site design into a single collaborative process. The firm believes that no project happens in isolation. Each design is shaped by its ecological context, cultural setting, client goals, and the voices of the community. Through this approach, PCLD creates enduring landscapes that are practical, resilient, inclusive, and deeply connected to their surroundings.
Employees: PLAs (4), Principals (3); Total (11)
Software used: Vectorworks, Lumion, Adobe Suite

As seen in LASN magazine, August 2026.