Planning Awards

2005 LA APA Award Winners

The winners of the 2005 LA APA Planning Awards were honored at an awards banquet at the Redondo Beach Historic Library on June 8th.

The Lovel Bearse Pemberton designed library served as the Main Library for Redondo Beach for sixty years prior to being placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, and offered LA-APA a perfect medium in which to unite the past and future planning efforts shaping how we view our cities today.

A full list of awards given follows:

Comprehensive Planning, Large Jurisdiction
Pasadena Central District Specific Plan
City of Pasadena/RTKL

Comprehensive Planning, Small Jurisdiction
San Gabriel General Plan
City of San Gabriel

Planning Implementation, Large Jurisdiction
Adaptive Reuse Program
City of Los Angeles

Planning Implementation, Small Jurisdiction
San Fernando Corridors Specific Plan
City of San Fernando

Planning Project Award
Metro Bike-Transit Center Implementation Plan
Metro Bike Group
Bikestation

Focused Issue Planning Award
Historic Resources Survey Report for Cumberland Heights Neighborhood
City of Glendale/Historic Resources Group

Advocacy Planning Award
Metro Bicycle Plan Public Outreach Project
Metro Bike Group
Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition

Contribution to Women and Family Award
Marva Smith Battle Bey

Academic Award
Professor Richard Willson and the students of the 2004 Community Planning Studio

Distinguished Leadership Award- Professional Planner
Jane Blumenfeld
City of Los Angeles

Distinguished Leadership Award- Elected Official
Pam O'Connor
City of Santa Monica

Distinguished Leadership Award- Firm or Agency
Los Angeles Conservancy

Distinguished Leadership Award- Citizen Planner
Ruth Lansford

Membership Award- Student Planner
Marcelle Boudreaux UCLA

Distinguished Service Award
Stanley R. Hoffman, FAICP

Environmental Award
Los Angeles Air Force Base Land Conveyance
Christopher A. Joseph Associates
City of El Segundo
City of Hawthorne
Los Angeles Air Force Base Redevelopment Office
Malcolm Pirnie
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP
Psomas
Kearny Real Estate Co.

Special Award of Merit
San Pedro Waterfront and Promenade Master Development
Port of Los Angeles
Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn (EE&K)
Architects/Gafcon

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City of Los Angeles

For more information, contact:

Sandi Sawa
LA-APA Awards Co-Chair
Tel: 213.978.1199
Email: ssawa@sbcglobal.net