Recently I received honors from  the city of Los Angeles, Board of Public Works, for winning a design competition for city street medians. Many  hours went in to the design and development of new design standards for our city street medians. The designs will be used as templates for the cites engineers to create specifications and standards. Elements include the removal of turf with creative design elements and plant material that will sustain with low maintenance and low water. Storm water run-off played a large part into the overall design. Mitigating the runoff into planted bioswales keeping polluted water from washing into the oceans.