Aviano

Aviano is a mixed residential community located in Naples, Florida. Our landscape architecture team provided marketing rendering and community identity packages to establish standards for the community’s identity. The completed marketing rendering package was utilized to promote the community to potential residents. The community identity package included specific design details for the entryway signage, paving and gates, the clubhouse and community pool, all common spaces, boulevards, and pedestrian boardwalks throughout the community. As a requirement for the permitting process, designs for planting and irrigation were also created, in accordance with the community identity package.

Babcock Ranch Community

Johnson Engineering has been involved in the entitlement, design, permitting, and development of the Babcock Ranch Community for over thirty years. Our team works collaboratively with the water resources, planning, and development groups to provide innovative and sustainable designs that support required permits.

Recently, we collaborated with our engineers and ecologists in the creation of filter marshes that will act as multi-functional systems to improve water quality, provide natural habitat, and support wildlife. Our team reviewed the overall watershed and flowways for the 17,787-acre property to understand how the individual filter marshes, which cover approximately 28% of the site, would contribute and connect to the entire system. The hydroperiod information provided was utilized with grading techniques and knowledge of suitable planting zones to enable our surface water team to design filter marshes that mimic natural wetland, marsh, and upland habitat. We also had to ensure the design would enable the filter marshes to connect to existing upland and wetlands. In addition, the planting design for the filter marshes utilizes 100 percent native plantings to maintain and enhance the natural habitat of the site and improve water filtration.

Bonita Springs Park

The planning and landscape architecture group collaborated on the design and permitting of many Bonita Springs parks, as well as the Bonita Springs parks master plan update. Within these efforts, we are responsible for the implementation of specific features of the parks master plan and assisting with the establishment of park lands identified in the parks master plan. Services provided include conceptual drawings and support material for land acquisition grants, written by the City of Bonita Springs as well as the design of parks for the purpose of permitting.

Currently there are three parks under development as a result of the efforts of our landscape architecture team. the upriver canoe/kayak launch near the headwaters of the Imperial River, provides a starting point to the Imperial Blueway, which stretches the entire length of the river to the Gulf of Mexico. In addition this park is designed to provide users with an educational experience, informational signage and kiosks are strategically located to identify and explain elements of the natural Florida environment. A 17-acre nature park located further down the Imperial River known as River Park was designed as one of many stopping points along the imperial blueway, while also providing the city with much needed park services and its first regional park. River Park also provides users with an educational experience by utilizing boardwalks, signage and informational kiosks to identify and explain elements of Southwest Florida waterways and their adjacent ecosystems, mangroves, wetlands, a juncus marsh, and unique to this particular site, an eagle’s nest. The boardwalks also provides a pedestrian connection to the Lee County Parks and Recreation boat launch via the U.S. 41 overpass. Finally, Windsor Preserve is a passive recreational preserve designed in cooperation with Bonita Springs Utilities. The park provides adjacent neighborhoods a facility with boardwalks, educational experiences, picnic area, and a potential children’s play area as a result of extensive public collaboration through community facilitation efforts conducted by our landscape architecture team.

Many of the park designs focus on educating users about the native Florida environment and utilizing rain gardens, native plant materials, in addition to protecting native habitat to provide code required stormwater management and landscaping. The final park design is a result of the close collaboration between our landscape architecture team, the City of Bonita springs, city residents, and other consultants.

Canterbury School

The Canterbury School is a private college preparatory school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students in Lee County, located at the intersection of College Parkway and Edison Parkway. We were responsible for designing and permitting an expansion to the school’s facilities, which nearly doubled the size of the existing campus. Our landscape architecture team assisted with developing the overall site design for the expansion, while also providing detail designs for many of the complex site features, which connected the expansion to the existing school facilities. One such feature is an innovative courtyard reflective of the school’s architecture that incorporates customized paving details, site furnishings, and a planting design to accommodate the client’s required elements for the space. Outdoor learning opportunities were incorporated into the site design through innovative stormwater solutions, planting and hardscape design, and an environmental discovery area. The required stormwater management for the site included a system that combined traditional retention basins with a created marsh to provide students with a unique and interactive educational experience. The marsh design mimicked the natural environment though grading and native plantings to provide wildlife habitat, improve ground water quality, and control stormwater runoff. An environmental discovery area was incorporated into the design of the school’s campus provide students with an on-site learning experience in which they could install, maintain, and identify native vegetation and observe the growth, function and interaction of native habitat and wildlife. During the design and permitting of the Canterbury School, Our landscape architecture team also coordinated with various consultants and provided construction documents, record drawings, and construction observation services.

Shell Point

Eagle’s Preserve is one of four residential retirement options at shell point community in Lee County. The eagle’s preserve site was designed by Our landscape architecture team to accommodate 10 buildings of condo residences and a clubhouse with a pool among the Shell Point Community’s existing golf course. The site design considered walkability as well as view sheds and focal points to promote pedestrian activity and ensure residents’ views of the golf course, clubhouse, and main fountain were not obstructed due to the height of the residential buildings. An enhanced landscape plan was developed and incorporated into the planting design for the property to maintain the landscaping standards of the existing community. In addition, the planting design utilized enhanced and diverse littoral plantings along canals abutting the property boundary to improve water quality. Entryway signage plans, bridge enhancement details, and hardscape designs as well as irrigation designs, construction documents, record drawings, and construction observation services were also provided.

The Forum

The Forum is a 706-acre mixed-use development within the City of Fort Myers spanning the length of I-75 between the Colonial Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard interchanges. The entitlement, design, and permitting processes necessary for a project of this magnitude required coordination between all the market groups within Johnson Engineering. Our landscape architecture team is responsible for the development and updating of the overall marketing plan, which is used to market available parcels within the forum to potential developers and to exhibit commercial, residential, and office uses available. To ensure consistency among the landscaped elements on individual parcels within the development a landscape master plan was also developed and implemented. The City of Fort Myers recognizes the landscape master plan as a result of significant long-term coordination and the effort by our landscape architecture team to ensure requirements of the plan exceed the minimum city landscape code requirements, while establishing an overall character for the forum through the use of specific vegetation and design standards. A stormwater master plan, which includes rain gardens and other innovative stormwater techniques to manage stormwater drainage and connect the existing lakes on the property, was developed with support from our landscape architecture team. Our team designed the rain gardens to collect and pre treat stormwater before entering the larger on-site system and eventually entering the six mile cypress slough east of the property. The rain gardens utilize native plantings and grading to imitate the natural wetland ecosystem that is native to Southwest Florida. In addition to developing and providing support to the numerous plans that regulate design and development within the forum, our landscape architecture team has also designed plantings, irrigation systems, and hardscape elements for the permitting associated with a majority of the forum’s individual parcels and roadways as well as providing construction documents, record drawings, and construction observation services.

U.S. 41 Landscape and Irrigation

U.S. 41 is a major commercial corridor and arterial highway in Lee county running north to south from Charlotte County to Collier County. Many team members are involved in improvement projects along U.S. 41. Lee County Department of Transportation was provided a corridor analysis for U.S. 41 from the Charlotte County line south to Collier County. The analysis identified drainage concerns, areas for landscape improvements and pilot programs as well as utility studies. In addition, our landscape architecture team provided landscape and design services for approximately eight miles of U.S. 41. The design utilizes information from a water resource assessment to effectively incorporate xeriscape principles, drip irrigation, and native and acclimated plant materials to create a lush corridor with a flowing turf design to unify the corridor’s urban landscape. Construction observation services were also provided, enabling our landscape architecture team to create a streamlined process for design implementation, and verify the needs of Lee County Department of Transportation were fulfilled. In addition to these eight-miles, our landscape architecture team provided construction observation services for an additional six miles of U.S. 41 to ensure the installation of plant material and products maintained the original design intent and met the needs of Lee County Department of Transportation.

3-D Modeling

In recent years, 3-D modeling has come to the forefront as a powerful tool to demonstrate a project’s vision, both contextually and spatially. Our landscape architects are using this tool to benefit the overall success of our client’s projects. Throughout the visioning process, 3-D models assist with a better understanding of a project by concerned parties, agencies, and sometimes even the owner. It helps to create an experience, something everybody can understand. Having a spatial understanding of a project solidifies why some things make more sense than others. from a marketing stand point, snapshots and flythrough videos are far superior to rendered plans when selling a product. In today’s world of the internet and email, this type of application is key for all involved. We pride ourselves in being on the cutting edge in the use of this medium.