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Atkins | Stone Mountain CID Planning and Urban Design | 3-22 Atkins | City of Sunny Isles Beach, RFQ No. 12-04-020006.027944.0512 Ridgewood Lakes Master Planning, JL Land Development, Inc., Davenport, FL. Ridgewood Lakes is an approximately 2,500 acre parcel of land located in Polk County, FL. Atkins was retained to provide master planning services for the potential future development, which included road alignment for Holly Hill Road extension through the site, layout of a roadway circulation network, restoration alignment of Horse Creek, varying densities of residential development areas, commercial development areas, a school and civic development area, park and open space system, greenways and trail connectivity. As Project Landscape Architect, Mr. Johnson was responsible for master planning design, and production of presentation graphics. Downtown Master Plan, Village of Grayslake, IL. Mr. Johnson served as lead landscape architect in charge of prototypical design efforts, graphic communication, and presentation renderings. In anticipation for the village’s centennial anniversary, a downtown master plan was created to provide a sense of downtown cohesiveness. For sake of project management, the downtown district was analyzed and categorized into a series of prototypical areas. Design recommendations, planting schemes, and character sketches were completed for each prototypical area. Downtown Master Plan, Village of West Dundee, IL. As part of a downtown design program, Mr. Johnson created rendered character sketches, and assisted in the design, development, and construction documentation phase of the project. “The 3R System, the Building Blocks of Recreation.” Atkins Project Enhancement Initiative. The Planning and Landscape Architecture Group was awarded $10,000 as an internal Atkins Project Enhancement Initiative. The purpose of these initiative was to encourage the implementation of new technologies into conventional approaches to the providing of professional services to all of its clients. The 3R System was developed by a group of its certifi ed parks and recreational planners, land planners, landscape architects and GIS programmers and technicians and is comprised of three modules, the fi rst module, called REVIEW, uses GIS Arc Pad technology to collect information in the fi eld at each of the park sites. Information is assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively for each of the recreational components that compose a park. The second module is RESPOND, which uses the Internet to survey the residents of the community to determine user preferences and needs. The survey participants are then geo-referenced into the GIS database to identify which area of the community is providing input. The last planning module is called REMAP. This module receives the information from the REVIEW and RESPOND modules and places it into a database. This allows Arc View to develop queries and graphic displays that identify the shortfalls of recreational facilities and their location within the system. When complete, this information becomes the planning source for the determination of levels of service and assists the city in allocation of tax dollars and comprehensive plan updates. Thomas Johnson, RLA, LEED AP Architecture and Urban Design