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M LERCH, RLA
* Venice, FL* 34293 *
Accomplished Planner and Landscape Architect with over 10 years’ experience planning, designing and implementing environmentally sustainable and aesthetically pleasing landscapes, specializing in school campuses, urban streetscapes, highway right of ways and medians, passive and active recreation parks, and greenways
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Florida Registered Landscape Architect
ISA Certified Arborist
Florida Master Naturalist, Freshwater Wetlands and Coastal Systems
Wrote and won a $25,000.00 EPA Environmental Justice Grant for an Urban Wetland Restoration
Designed and Implemented the First Demonstration Rain Garden for Charlotte County, FL
Speaker for Arbor Day Celebration Topic: Rain Garden Fundamentals
Persuasive Presentation Resulted in change of Florida Friendly Land Development ordinance from Recommended to Required for Landscape Plan Approval
Creative Problem Solver and Negotiator
Member of Charlotte County Development Review Committee
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners
November 2010 to June 2011
Project Manager
Dates of employment correspond to the length of the EPA grant which funded the first phase of the Urban Wetland Restoration.
Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners
May 2007 to May 2010
Planner II, Growth Management
(Formerly Community Development)
David W. Johnston & Associates, Sarasota, FL
June 2004 to May 2007
Landscape Architect Associate
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