Candidate for
City Clerk; City of Glendale

STEPHANIE V. LANDREGAN, Division Chief Landscape Architecture and Design Division, Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority

Stephanie Landregan received her first degree in three-dimensional art, from the University of Kentucky in 1975. She spent ten years working in the arts as a designer in ceramics, illustration, and photography, illustrated geologic guides and eventually became the Art Director for the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. This led to an exhibition of her illustrations at the Museum. After having run her own freelance design firm, Studio, in Albuquerque for several years, she was hired by the Museum of Natural History as a designer and fabricator of exhibits, becoming Acting Director of Exhibitions from Nov. 1988-Feb. 1989. While in Albuquerque, Ms. Landregan was instrumental in forming the Stronghurst neighborhood association, and in protecting the water well rights of the neighborhood when their irrigation ditches were threatened by development.

In 1989, Ms. Landregan moved to the Los Angeles area to pursue graduate work in design. She worked full time for the City of Santa Monica Planning Division for four years while attending evening classes. In 1993, Stephanie graduated as the top student from the UCLA Landscape Architecture Extension program. Despite several job offers in Los Angeles, she chose to move back to Lexington, Kentucky to work on equestrian facility design. She became involved in a project to save a historical piece of land, the site of the original settlement of Lexington, which was threatened by development. She was invited to become one of the founding board members of the Friends of McConnell Springs and Friends of the Parks, volunteering both time and design skills to create a viable park design. With bake sales and other community events, the Friends bought McConnell Springs and it is now a lovely 8-acre park in Lexington. Stephanie also was appointed and served on the Parks Board and the Friends of the Parks, a community organization that provided hands-on assistance and fundraising to improve aging park equipment within the region.

Returning in 1995 to the Los Angeles region, she settled in the Montrose area of Glendale, and began working for Lawrence R. Moss and Associates as a Senior Landscape Architect specializing in city design projects and public process. Stephanie soon bought a home in the mountains of north Glendale, and still marvels at the `glen' in which she is so fortunate to be living!

Since 1999, Stephanie has worked as Senior Landscape Architect and Division Chief (2002) for the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, a regional parks agency. She has facilitated community design workshops, overseen and completed construction of over 20 park projects ranging in budget from $350,000 to over $5 million. For the past three years, Ms. Landregan has also been on the faculty of the UCLA Landscape Architecture Extension Program, teaching thesis and history of landscape architecture.

In 1996, Stephanie was appointed to the City of Glendale's Design Review Board, serving two terms. Her active involvement in Planning in Glendale also includes participation on many blue ribbon committees -- among them the Fence Committee and Sign Committee, both appointments by the Glendale City Council.

Professionally, she has been active in the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (SCCASLA) from 1997 to present. Her work has taken her to Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress for bills that improve the environment and include beautification of roadways. She served on the committee for the extension of the 215 freeway, representing the cities of San Dimas and La Verne, and successfully lobbied CalTrans to plant wildflowers when they had no funds planned for landscaping. In October of 2002, Stephanie was elected President of SCCASLA, the largest chapter in the United States. National ASLA President Miller recently reappointed her to the Government Affairs Committee, where she has been able to influence legislation and lobbying efforts on a national level.

Herb Wesson, Speaker of the Assembly, appointed Ms. Landregan to the State of California's Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC) in 2002. She was elected Vice Chair of the LATC in 2003 and reelected in 2004. She is also representative and advocate for the State of California on the Council of Landscape Architects Registration Board (CLARB) and is alternate regional director of the Western Region of CLARB.

Other volunteer activities have included riding her bicycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles twice -- in 1999 and 2000 -- in the California AIDS ride, raising over $11,000 for victims of AIDS. During the 2000 ride, Stephanie met Chip Hunter, who asked her to join the board of ARTshare Los Angeles, an arts group that provides art to at-risk and inner-city teens. She has organized several fun and successful fundraisers for ARTshare. Stephanie fought hard to raise money, secure grants and keep ARTshare afloat during the last few years, serving as chair, and working with the City of Los Angeles office of Councilperson Jan Perry to complete capital improvements to the organization's downtown art studios.