Osborn Pacific Group offers landscape architecture, recreation planning, environmental design, and regulatory agency assistance.
Osborn Pacific Group Inc. celebrates 20 years of business this year. It has maintained a constant staff size over the past few years, with gross revenues up 25 percent over 1997. The firm has a strong backlog of work and anticipates that gross revenues will increase by 10 to 20 percent in 1999.
Public sector projects are the majority of the firm's work.
Current and recent projects include the restoration of three Trustee sites on the Hylebos Waterway; implementation of Douglas County PUD's five year recreation action plan; master planning and design of athletic sports complexes and fields for the city of Everett and King County; master planning, recreation planning, and environmental design at Seattle City Light's Boundary Dam; environmental design, landscape architecture, and permitting for major freeway projects; and landscape architecture for Sound Transit.
Osborn Pacific Group has seen a steady increase in the market for permit support, including early identification of required permits and approvals, coordination with a variety of regulatory agencies to facilitate permit acquisition, and mitigation planning for wetlands, streambanks, in-stream features, ecological restoration, and other sensitive area mitigation. Recently, the firm completed updating Seattle City Light's Permitting Manual, a guide about everything you wanted to know for obtaining permits.
The listing of the Puget Sound Chinook salmon as an endangered species is creating interesting challenges for developing projects near any wetlands and waterways, and the firm is developing creative mitigation plans to streamline the permit process.