Michael Singleton, ASLA

Biography

Mike graduated from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo in 1981 with a B.S. Landscape Architecture, highest honors. He has worked with Ken Smith, Van Dyke Halsey Design Group, Gillespie DeLorenzo, and Professional Development Services. In 1987, Mike joined KTU+A Landscape Architecture and created a planning department where his is now a principal. Mike is a member of several professional and community organizations in addition to LADAC where he has given lectures and attended design and business councils.

Mike’s federal work in the San Diego region has expanded nationwide since 2000. Under Mike’s direction, KTU+A also prepared master plans and supporting planning studies for bases in New Orleans (both pre and post-Hurricane Katrina); Athens, Georgia; Pensacola, Florida; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Saratoga Springs, New York; as well as southeast region-wide Morale, Welfare and Recreation and Public Safety (Anti-Terrorism Force Protection) studies for the Navy.

Over the last 15 years, Mike has authored or co-authored a number of other bicycle master plans, trail master plans and pedestrian studies throughout the southwest. When working on these studies, Mike and other members of the KTU+A staff actually ride, hike or walk the areas they are studying, making sure that the recommendations they are providing are a reality to implement.

One of Mike’s other areas of expertise is transportation planning. Much to his teenaged daughters’ chagrin, vacations with him nearly always include some type of ride on the local public transit system, where he gets off at every station to check out the design detailing and the integration of the transit stop with the surrounding neighborhood.

Mike has authored a number of visual impact assessments for large-scale projects in San Diego and Orange counties. A key component of these studies are the defensibility as part of the EIR/EIS process and conformity with CEQA and NEPA requirements.