Landscape Architects Sacramento
Landscape Architects
Sacramento, CA
Evergreen Design Group is a licensed landscape architecture firm in Sacramento, CA providing commercial land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design services across the Capital Region and Northern California. Since 2005, we have partnered with architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors to deliver project documentation that is on time, code-compliant, and fully coordinated with your civil and architectural scope.
We hold California Landscape Architect License ⁄7158. Our practice is exclusively B2B — we work as a coordinated subconsultant and project partner to development and design teams, not homeowners. Every service we provide is performed in-house by our licensed professionals. We do not subcontract your landscape architecture, land planning, or irrigation design scope to third parties.
Whether you’re planning a mixed-use development in Midtown, a corporate campus in the Natomas corridor, or a master-planned community in the growing suburbs of Elk Grove, Folsom, or Roseville, our team of landscape architects in Sacramento integrates directly into your design and development workflow from site planning through permit-ready construction documents.
Landscape Architecture Firm Sacramento, CA
Evergreen Design Group is a landscape architecture firm in Sacramento with active California licensure and a project delivery track record across the Capital Region’s diverse jurisdictional landscape. Our Sacramento practice operates at both a local and national scale — we hold active licensure in 40+ states, including California Landscape Architect License ⁄7158 — and our team brings direct experience navigating the City of Sacramento, Sacramento County, and the surrounding municipalities that make up one of Northern California’s most active development markets.
As a landscape architecture firm serving Sacramento developers, civil engineers, and architects, we bring jurisdiction-specific knowledge of Sacramento’s development review processes, MWELO enforcement protocols, Title 24 landscape standards, CALGreen requirements, and the varying local standards of Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, West Sacramento, Davis, and Citrus Heights. That regional depth, backed by the process discipline of a nationally operating firm, is what sets our landscape architecture firm in Sacramento apart from both local-only practices and large national firms without sustained Capital Region market experience.
Our Sacramento landscape architecture practice is exclusively B2B. We do not take on individual homeowner projects. Our clients are architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors who need landscape architects in Sacramento who understand entitlement timelines, deliver construction-ready documentation, and integrate cleanly with their project teams.
Landscape Architecture Services in Sacramento, CA
Our team delivers fully in-house professional services across every phase of a project — from initial land planning in Sacramento through permit-ready construction documents. Every service is managed by our licensed California landscape architects with no subcontracting of scope.
Land planning in Sacramento requires navigating a complex, multi-jurisdictional development environment. The City of Sacramento, Sacramento County, and surrounding municipalities — Elk Grove, Rancho Cordova, Folsom, Citrus Heights, West Sacramento — each maintain their own plan check processes, design standards, and review timelines. Our land planning Sacramento services integrate directly with your civil engineer’s site layout, addressing open space configurations, buffer yard requirements, tree preservation zone integration, stormwater BMP siting, pedestrian circulation, and streetscape frameworks that satisfy the applicable jurisdiction’s development review standards from the first submittal.
Land planning in Sacramento also requires early integration of MWELO water budget parameters, CALGreen shade canopy compliance requirements, and Title 24 landscape standards into the site layout — before the civil plan set is substantially developed. Our land planning Sacramento team coordinates these regulatory constraints with your civil engineer from the initial site planning stage, which is where entitlement schedules are protected or lost.
Our land planning services in Sacramento cover the full range of commercial development types: multi-family and build-to-rent communities, mixed-use and transit-oriented development, retail and office projects, industrial and logistics facilities, master-planned communities, and institutional campuses throughout the Capital Region.
Irrigation design in Sacramento is governed by California’s Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO) and the Sacramento area water purveyors’ conservation programs — including Sacramento Suburban Water District and the City of Sacramento’s water utility requirements. Our irrigation design Sacramento team produces fully MWELO-compliant irrigation designs for commercial and multi-family projects throughout the Capital Region, including Water Efficient Landscape Worksheets (WELO), plant factor documentation, flow and pressure calculations, controller specifications, backflow prevention documentation, and irrigation scheduling documentation formatted to satisfy Sacramento’s permit review requirements.
Irrigation design in Sacramento must address the region’s dual water supply system — many Sacramento area development sites have access to treated surface water from the American River and Sacramento River systems as well as recycled water for landscape irrigation. Our irrigation designers are familiar with the recycled water availability and connection requirements of Sacramento’s water purveyors and incorporate recycled water system design where applicable as standard scope.
MWELO compliance for irrigation design in Sacramento is built into our workflow from the initial site planning stage. Water budget parameters, plant factor calculations, and irrigation efficiency specifications are established during design development so that the construction document package arrives at Sacramento’s plan check in approvable form.
Our licensed landscape architects in Sacramento produce permit-ready planting plans tailored to the Central Valley’s climate conditions — hot, dry summers with limited rainfall concentrated in the winter season, clay-dominant soils in many development areas, and a regulatory framework that increasingly emphasizes water-efficient and native plant species. We specify drought-tolerant, low-water-use native and adapted species that comply with applicable municipal landscape ordinances, MWELO plant factor requirements, and HOA design guidelines, while satisfying Sacramento’s tree canopy and shade coverage standards.
Commonly specified species for Sacramento commercial projects include valley oak, blue elderberry, toyon, California buckeye, California sycamore, and a range of drought-adapted groundcovers and shrubs appropriate to each site’s sun exposure, soil conditions, and maintenance profile. Species selection accounts for Sacramento’s extreme summer heat, frost exposure in winter, and the long-term irrigation water budgets that drive planting plan review under MWELO.
Sacramento’s urban forest protection regulations and County tree preservation ordinances require comprehensive tree inventory and disposition documentation on development sites with significant tree resources. Our plans include field-verified inventories, species and caliper documentation, condition assessment, protected species identification, regulated removal impact analysis, mitigation calculations, and replacement specifications formatted to support the applicable jurisdiction’s development review process — whether that’s the City of Sacramento’s Urban Forestry review, Sacramento County planning, or a surrounding municipality’s tree ordinance.
Pool surrounds, fitness areas, outdoor recreation spaces, play areas, tot lots, dog parks, shaded ramadas, and resident amenity packages for multi-family, senior living, and mixed-use developments throughout Sacramento and the greater Capital Region. Designs are developed to HOA standards, local building codes, ADA accessibility requirements, and the operational demands of Sacramento’s extreme summer heat environment — with shade coverage, heat-reflective paving materials, and drought-tolerant perimeter plantings as standard design parameters.
Pedestrian plazas, entry features, streetscapes, seat walls, paving systems, and structured outdoor spaces for commercial, mixed-use, and institutional projects throughout Sacramento and the Capital Region. Material specifications account for Sacramento’s extreme summer heat, thermal cycling, impervious surface standards, and the stormwater management and low-impact development requirements that govern commercial hardscape design under Sacramento’s municipal code and County development standards.
Sacramento’s Regulatory Environment: What Every Commercial Project Requires
Development in Sacramento requires compliance with a layered set of state and local regulatory requirements that directly affect landscape architecture scope and deliverables on commercial and multi-family projects.
MWELO and Water Efficiency Requirements
California’s Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance applies to new construction and rehabilitated landscapes above defined size thresholds in Sacramento and across the Capital Region. MWELO requires water budgets, irrigation efficiency standards, plant factor documentation, and Water Efficient Landscape Worksheets as conditions of permit approval. The City of Sacramento and Sacramento County both enforce MWELO, and surrounding municipalities including Elk Grove, Folsom, and Roseville enforce their own local water conservation ordinances aligned with the state standard. We design to MWELO compliance from the outset on all Sacramento commercial projects.
Title 24 Energy Compliance
California’s Title 24 building energy standards affect shading design, heat island mitigation, and site design decisions on commercial development projects in Sacramento. We design with Title 24 site requirements in mind from day one, coordinating shade tree placement, canopy calculations, and hardscape material specifications with the project’s energy compliance strategy.
CALGreen Requirements
CALGreen mandates shade coverage for parking areas on nonresidential projects and establishes stormwater and water quality requirements that affect landscape and hardscape design. Our landscape architects in Sacramento calculate shade compliance and stormwater management scope as integrated components of the construction document package, coordinated with your civil team.
Sacramento Stormwater and Low-Impact Development Standards
Sacramento’s stormwater management requirements — administered through the City’s MS4 permit and Sacramento County’s stormwater program — require post-construction stormwater management measures on commercial development projects. Landscape architecture contributes to post-construction scope through bioretention basin planting design, vegetated swale specifications, and permanent vegetative cover documentation. We prepare these deliverables in coordination with your civil engineer of record as standard scope on Sacramento commercial projects.
Multi-Jurisdictional Code Variation Across the Capital Region
Sacramento commercial landscape architecture projects must satisfy requirements that vary meaningfully across the region’s jurisdictions. The City of Sacramento’s landscape standards differ from Sacramento County’s, and the standards of Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville, West Sacramento, and Davis each reflect their own local ordinance frameworks. Designing to the wrong jurisdiction’s standard costs time in review. We understand the landscape requirements across the Capital Region’s major development jurisdictions and bring that knowledge into the design process from the initial site planning stage.
Sacramento Markets We Serve
Evergreen Design Group provides landscape architecture services throughout Sacramento and the greater Capital Region, including:
- City of Sacramento — including Midtown, Downtown, Natomas, North Sacramento, and Oak Park
- Sacramento County — unincorporated development areas and master-planned communities
- Elk Grove
- Rancho Cordova
- Folsom
- Citrus Heights
- West Sacramento
- Davis and Yolo County
- Roseville and Rocklin (Placer County)
- Lincoln and Auburn (Placer County)
- Woodland and Winters (Yolo County)
- Lodi and Stockton (San Joaquin County)
Our familiarity with the development review frameworks of the City of Sacramento’s Department of Public Works, Sacramento County Planning, Elk Grove’s Development Services, Folsom’s Community Development, and the review processes of surrounding jurisdictions allows us to move efficiently through entitlements and permit approvals across the Capital Region.
Project Types We Support in the Sacramento Region
Evergreen Design Group supports landscape architecture and land planning scope across a wide range of commercial development types in Sacramento and the Capital Region. All project work is B2B — performed for developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors. Our active project types include:
- Mixed-use and transit-oriented development
- Multi-family and build-to-rent communities (market-rate and affordable)
- Retail centers, pad sites, and commercial outparcels
- Corporate and institutional campuses
- Industrial and logistics parks
- Master-planned communities and large-lot subdivisions
- Senior living and continuing care communities
- Healthcare and medical campus environments
- Public agency and municipal projects
- Educational and university-adjacent development
Why Development Teams in Sacramento Choose
Evergreen Design Group
Licensed Landscape Architecture Firm in Sacramento — In-House, No Subcontracting
Evergreen Design Group holds California Landscape Architect License ⁄7158, issued through the Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC). Every project we deliver is produced by or under the direct supervision of a licensed California landscape architect. All services are performed in-house — we do not subcontract your scope to third parties. That means consistent quality, clear accountability, and a single point of coordination for your civil and architectural team throughout the project.
20 Years of Commercial Project Experience, Capital Region Market Knowledge
Founded in 2005, Evergreen Design Group has completed landscape architecture projects across 43 states. In the Sacramento market, that national breadth is paired with direct familiarity with the Capital Region’s jurisdictional requirements, Central Valley plant palettes, Sacramento’s urban forest regulations, MWELO enforcement protocols, and the specific regulatory demands of commercial and multi-family development across the region’s diverse municipalities.
Deep Knowledge of Sacramento’s Multi-Jurisdictional Regulatory Environment
Our landscape architects in Sacramento have navigated City of Sacramento Department of Public Works reviews, Sacramento County planning requirements, and the varying development standards of surrounding jurisdictions — so your team does not start from scratch on every project. We bring the jurisdiction-specific knowledge that keeps Sacramento projects moving through review.
Single Source for Land Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Irrigation Design
Land planning in Sacramento, landscape architecture, and irrigation design are all delivered under one contract by our in-house licensed professionals. There is no coordination gap between a separate irrigation consultant and your landscape architect — we handle the full scope. This integrated approach reduces errors, eliminates handoff delays, and produces a coordinated permit submittal package your civil engineer can work with directly.
Built for the B2B Development Pipeline
We work exclusively with professional clients: architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors. We understand entitlement timelines, phasing, and the realities of fast-moving commercial development schedules across the Sacramento market. Our deliverables are produced for construction use and permit submittal — formatted to work with your civil set and delivered on a schedule that supports your project’s entitlement milestones.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Landscape Architects in Sacramento, CA
Landscape architects in Sacramento prepare land planning studies, planting plans, irrigation designs, tree disposition plans, and hardscape construction documents for commercial, multi-family, and industrial development projects. They navigate California-specific regulatory requirements — including MWELO, CALGreen, Title 24, and local municipal ordinances — as part of the design and permitting process, producing deliverables formatted for City of Sacramento and Sacramento County plan check and permit submittal.
For commercial development projects in Sacramento, the most important criteria are: California state licensure (CA LATC license), demonstrated familiarity with the City of Sacramento’s and Sacramento County’s development review processes, in-house irrigation design capability with MWELO experience, and a B2B project delivery track record in the Capital Region. Evergreen Design Group holds CA License ⁄7158 and works exclusively with commercial development teams — not homeowners.
Land planning in Sacramento involves developing site plans, open space configurations, amenity placement, buffer yard layouts, tree preservation zone integration, and streetscape frameworks that satisfy the applicable jurisdiction’s zoning and development review requirements. Because Sacramento commercial development spans multiple jurisdictions — the City, the County, and surrounding municipalities — land planning in Sacramento requires jurisdiction-specific knowledge of the plan check process that governs each specific site. Our land planning services in Sacramento are performed in-house and coordinated directly with your civil engineer from the initial site layout stage.
Irrigation design in Sacramento must comply with California’s MWELO and the water conservation requirements of the applicable Sacramento area water purveyor — including Sacramento Suburban Water District and City of Sacramento water utility standards. Required permit submittal deliverables typically include a Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet (WELO), plant factor documentation, irrigation system layout plans, flow and pressure calculations, controller specifications, backflow prevention documentation, and irrigation scheduling documentation. Our irrigation design team produces fully MWELO-compliant packages as standard scope on all Sacramento commercial projects.
Our primary clients are architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors. We are a design-only firm — we do not self-perform installation. We partner with design-build firms that include a construction arm, but the landscape architecture and irrigation design scope is performed entirely in-house by our licensed professionals. We do not take on individual homeowner projects.
Yes. Evergreen Design Group is a single-source landscape architecture firm in Sacramento providing land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design under one contract and one point of contact. This integrated scope approach is particularly valuable on Sacramento projects, where MWELO water budget parameters, land planning open space calculations, planting design, and irrigation design must be closely coordinated to achieve code compliance efficiently.
Yes. MWELO compliance is a standard component of all our California landscape design work. We prepare the Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet and coordinate all design decisions to meet both state ordinance thresholds and applicable local water purveyor requirements across Sacramento and the Capital Region.
Yes. We regularly work in Elk Grove, Folsom, Roseville, Rancho Cordova, West Sacramento, Davis, Citrus Heights, Woodland, Lincoln, and other communities throughout the Capital Region. Each municipality operates under its own development review framework, which we incorporate into our design scope based on the project’s specific location.
As early as possible — ideally at the site planning stage, before the civil plan set is substantially developed. Early engagement allows MWELO water budget parameters, tree preservation zone requirements, CALGreen shade canopy compliance, and municipal landscape ordinance standards to be integrated into the site layout before those decisions are locked in. Projects that bring a landscape architecture firm in Sacramento into the land planning conversation early consistently produce cleaner submittals and fewer revision cycles.
Ready to Work Together on Your Sacramento Project?
If you’re a developer, architect, civil engineer, or design-build contractor with a commercial project in Sacramento or the greater Capital Region, Evergreen Design Group’s landscape architects in Sacramento bring the California licensure, Capital Region market knowledge, and in-house technical depth to move your project forward. We are ready to discuss project scope, schedule, and how we can integrate with your development team from day one.
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