Atlanta GA Landscape Architect
Licensed Landscape Architecture Firm Serving the Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Evergreen Design Group is a licensed Atlanta landscape architect firm serving architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area. Since 2005, we have delivered land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design on commercial and residential development projects across the metro — from high-density infill in Midtown and Buckhead to large-scale master-planned communities across the outer metro counties.
Our practice is exclusively B2B. We work as a coordinated subconsultant and project partner to development and design teams — not homeowners — and our deliverables are structured for permit submittal, technical review, and direct integration with your civil and architectural scope. We do not subcontract your landscape architecture, land planning, or irrigation design scope to third parties.
Our landscape architects hold active professional registrations in Georgia and carry the errors and omissions coverage and state-specific Georgia Board of Landscape Architects credentials required to stamp and seal landscape architectural documents for Atlanta-area municipal and county permit submissions.
Landscape Architecture Firm in Atlanta, GA
Evergreen Design Group is a landscape architecture firm in Atlanta operating at both a local and national scale. We hold active licensure in 43 states, including active Georgia registration — and our team brings direct project experience navigating the City of Atlanta’s plan review process, the Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance, Piedmont clay soil conditions, post-construction stormwater requirements, and the multi-jurisdictional review complexity that characterizes commercial development across the metro’s dozens of municipalities.
As a landscape architecture firm serving Atlanta, we bring jurisdiction-specific knowledge of the regulatory requirements that vary meaningfully between the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, DeKalb County, Gwinnett County, Cobb County, Cherokee County, and the metro’s growing outer ring jurisdictions. A project in Alpharetta is reviewed under different standards than one in Smyrna, Sandy Springs, Decatur, or unincorporated Gwinnett County. That familiarity with Atlanta’s jurisdictional landscape reduces the risk of costly resubmittals and keeps your project moving through permitting.
Our Atlanta landscape architecture practice is exclusively B2B. Our clients are architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors who need an Atlanta landscape architect who understands entitlement timelines, delivers construction-ready documentation, and integrates cleanly into their project teams.
Why Atlanta Projects Require a Specialized Landscape Architecture Approach
Atlanta presents a distinct and demanding design environment. The city’s rapid growth, complex tree ordinance framework, Piedmont clay soils, heat island conditions, and highly variable municipal review processes mean that landscape architecture firms without sustained Atlanta market experience consistently fall short on entitlement timelines.
Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance Compliance
The City of Atlanta’s Tree Protection Ordinance is among the most stringent in the Southeast. Projects within city limits must navigate tree surveys, tree quality ratings, specimen tree protections, removal permits, and replanting or payment-in-lieu requirements enforced by the City Arborist. Surrounding counties — Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and others — each maintain their own tree ordinance frameworks with different thresholds and mitigation ratios. Tree ordinance compliance is not a peripheral service on Atlanta-area projects — it is frequently on the critical path to permit approval. We produce tree disposition plans and tree preservation strategies that satisfy Atlanta’s City Arborist review process and the varying standards of metro counties, formatted to the specific submittal requirements of each applicable jurisdiction.
Piedmont Clay Soils and Stormwater Management
Metro Atlanta sits predominantly within the Piedmont physiographic province, characterized by heavy red clay soils with poor drainage and high erosion potential. Development projects must address grading, compaction, and stormwater management in ways that satisfy both Georgia EPD requirements and increasingly stringent local post-construction stormwater ordinances. Our land planning and landscape architecture documents are developed with these site conditions as foundational design constraints — not afterthoughts incorporated late in the design process.
Urban Heat Island and Green Infrastructure Requirements
Many municipal and transit-oriented development projects within Atlanta city limits are subject to green infrastructure requirements, including minimum canopy cover, bioswale integration, and permeable paving provisions. Our design team has direct experience meeting these requirements in Atlanta’s planning review process, including projects along the BeltLine corridor and in Midtown and West Midtown redevelopment zones.
Multi-Jurisdictional Review Complexity
The Atlanta metro’s footprint spans dozens of municipalities, each with its own landscape buffer requirements, screening standards, parking lot canopy minimums, and plan review processes. We know what Atlanta’s Arborist Division expects in a tree disposition submittal, what Gwinnett County’s Development Division looks for in a landscape plan, and how Cobb County’s buffer requirements differ from the City of Marietta’s. That knowledge translates directly into fewer resubmittals and faster approvals on your project.
Landscape Architecture Services We Provide in Atlanta
Evergreen Design Group delivers the full range of landscape architecture and land planning services as a single-source provider. Your project team works with one firm — coordinated in-house — across all landscape-related disciplines.
We analyze Atlanta-area site conditions — including topography, drainage patterns, soil composition, adjacent land uses, and applicable zoning and overlay district requirements — and produce site plans that maximize developable area while addressing regulatory compliance and long-term site performance. Our land planning services integrate directly with your civil engineer’s layout, addressing open space configurations, buffer yard requirements, tree preservation zone integration, stormwater BMP siting, and streetscape frameworks that satisfy the applicable jurisdiction’s development review standards from the first submittal.
Whether you are entitling a mixed-use infill site near the BeltLine, a suburban office campus in Alpharetta, or a multifamily community in Henry County, our land planners bring direct Atlanta-market experience and coordinate regulatory constraints with your civil engineer from the initial site planning stage — which is where entitlement schedules are protected or lost.
We design planting plans for Atlanta’s humid subtropical climate, emphasizing regionally native and adapted species that meet municipal landscape ordinance requirements, support stormwater management goals, and reduce long-term maintenance costs. From streetscape planting along Midtown corridors to amenity planting for Gwinnett County multifamily communities, our planting designs are detailed, constructible, and compliant with the applicable landscape standards of each metro jurisdiction.
Species selection accounts for Piedmont clay soil drainage challenges, Atlanta’s summer heat load, and the tree canopy and shade coverage requirements embedded in the landscape ordinances of the city and surrounding counties.
Tree disposition and preservation planning is one of the most consequential services we provide for Atlanta-area projects. We conduct site-specific tree surveys, prepare tree quality assessments, develop tree save and removal plans coordinated with civil grading documents, and produce the detailed tree disposition plans required by the City of Atlanta’s Arborist Division and metro-area county plan review departments.
We understand the specific documentation formats and submittal requirements that move these plans through the City of Atlanta’s review process efficiently, and we apply the same jurisdiction-specific knowledge to tree disposition submittals across Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and the metro’s outer ring counties. Mitigation ratios, specimen tree thresholds, payment-in-lieu calculations, and replacement specifications are calibrated to the governing jurisdiction on every project.
Pool decks, clubhouses, fitness courtyards, dog parks, tot lots, walking trails, and shared gathering spaces for multifamily communities and master-planned developments across metro Atlanta. We design amenity packages that are code-compliant and built for durability under Atlanta’s intense summer heat and periodic freeze-thaw cycles, with material selections appropriate for the city’s humidity and UV conditions.
Plazas, pedestrian walkways, entry features, retaining walls, and outdoor gathering areas for commercial, mixed-use, and institutional projects throughout the Atlanta metro. We produce hardscape construction documents that coordinate directly with your civil and architectural drawing sets, specifying materials and systems appropriate for Atlanta’s climate conditions and local maintenance realities.
We produce fully engineered irrigation construction documents for commercial, multifamily, and community projects throughout metro Atlanta. Our irrigation designs comply with Georgia EPD water conservation standards and applicable local watering restrictions. We specify smart controller systems and hydrozone-based layouts that reduce operating costs and maintenance burden for property owners.
Irrigation design in Atlanta is performed in-house alongside our landscape architects throughout the design process. Water budget calculations and irrigation efficiency specifications are established during design development so that the construction document package arrives at Atlanta-area plan check in approvable form.
Atlanta Metro Markets and Jurisdictions We Serve
Evergreen Design Group provides landscape architecture, land planning, and irrigation design services across the full Atlanta metropolitan area, including:
- City of Atlanta — all neighborhoods and overlay districts, including Atlanta BeltLine Tax Allocation Districts
- Fulton County — unincorporated areas, Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Roswell, Milton, Johns Creek
- DeKalb County — unincorporated areas, Decatur, Tucker, Dunwoody, Doraville, Brookhaven
- Gwinnett County — unincorporated areas, Lawrenceville, Duluth, Suwanee, Peachtree Corners, Sugar Hill
- Cobb County — unincorporated areas, Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs
- Cherokee County — unincorporated areas, Woodstock, Canton, Holly Springs
- Forsyth County — unincorporated areas, Cumming, South Forsyth corridor
- Henry County — McDonough, Stockbridge, Hampton
- Clayton County — Jonesboro, College Park, Riverdale
- Fayette County — Peachtree City, Fayetteville, Tyrone
- Rockdale and Newton Counties — Conyers, Covington
Each jurisdiction in the Atlanta metro maintains its own landscape buffer requirements, tree ordinance standards, parking lot canopy minimums, and plan review processes. Our familiarity with these jurisdictional differences means we produce documents formatted for the governing authority’s review process from the first submittal — not revised to meet local requirements after the first round of comments.
Project Types We Support in the Atlanta Metro
Evergreen Design Group supports landscape architecture and land planning scope across a wide range of commercial development types in the Atlanta metro. All project work is B2B — performed for developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors. Our active project types include:
- Multifamily and build-to-rent communities
- Single-family residential subdivisions and master-planned communities
- Mixed-use and transit-oriented development
- Retail centers, pad sites, and commercial outparcels
- Office and corporate campus projects
- Industrial parks and logistics facilities
- Senior living and continuing care communities
- Healthcare and medical campus environments
- Hospitality and resort-adjacent development
- Municipal parks and civic facilities
- Educational and university-adjacent development
Why Atlanta Development Teams Choose Evergreen Design Group
Active Georgia Licensure — 21 Years of Atlanta-Market Project Experience. Founded in 2005, Evergreen Design Group has completed landscape architecture projects across 43 states. Our Atlanta-area project history spans multifamily housing, single-family subdivisions, master-planned communities, commercial and mixed-use development, and corporate campus design — across virtually every jurisdiction in the metro. Our landscape architects hold active professional registrations in Georgia and carry the credentials required to stamp and seal landscape architectural documents for Atlanta-area permit submissions.
Licensed Landscape Architecture Firm — In-House. Every service we deliver — land planning, landscape architecture, tree disposition, and irrigation design — is performed in-house by our licensed professionals. 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.
Deep Knowledge of Atlanta’s Regulatory Landscape. Atlanta’s tree ordinance, stormwater requirements, landscape buffer standards, and overlay district provisions are not easy to navigate without direct local experience. We know what Atlanta’s Arborist Division expects in a tree disposition submittal, what Gwinnett County’s Development Division looks for in a landscape plan, and how Cobb County’s buffer requirements differ from the City of Marietta’s. That knowledge translates directly into fewer resubmittals and faster approvals on your project.
Single-Source Delivery. Land planning, landscape architecture, tree disposition, and irrigation design are coordinated in-house and delivered under one contract. For Atlanta-area project teams managing tight entitlement and permitting timelines, a single-source landscape consultant reduces coordination overhead and eliminates gaps between discipline drawing sets.
Built for Professional Project Workflows. We integrate into your project team and work to your schedule, your drawing standards, and your submittal process. We attend design meetings, respond to plan review comments, and coordinate directly with Atlanta-area plan reviewers and arborist staff when needed. Our goal is to keep your project on schedule — not to create additional coordination complexity.
Program-Scale Coordination Across the Atlanta Metro. For developers and contractors managing multiple projects simultaneously across the metro’s municipalities, we offer program-scale coordination — standardized documentation formats, consistent deliverable packages, and coordinated submittal schedules across multiple concurrent project sites. This is particularly valuable for multifamily and build-to-rent developers with parallel entitlement timelines across different metro jurisdictions.
Frequently Asked Questions: Landscape Architecture in Atlanta
Does Evergreen Design Group work on projects within the City of Atlanta limits?
Yes. We have direct experience with the City of Atlanta’s plan review process, including tree disposition submittals to the City Arborist, landscape plan review through the Office of Buildings, and projects within BeltLine Tax Allocation Districts and Westside and other overlay districts.
Can you handle tree ordinance compliance for Atlanta projects?
Yes — this is one of our core service areas for Atlanta-area projects. We produce tree surveys, tree quality assessments, tree disposition plans, and tree preservation strategies compliant with the City of Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance and the varying tree ordinance frameworks of surrounding metro counties. Documentation is formatted to the specific submittal requirements of the governing jurisdiction on every project.
What does land planning in Atlanta involve for commercial development projects?
Land planning in Atlanta involves developing site plans, open space configurations, buffer yard layouts, tree preservation zone integration, stormwater BMP siting, and streetscape frameworks that satisfy the applicable jurisdiction’s zoning and development review requirements. Because the Atlanta metro spans jurisdictions with meaningfully different standards — City of Atlanta, Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, and surrounding counties each have their own requirements — land planning in Atlanta requires jurisdiction-specific knowledge of the plan check process governing each specific site. Our land planning services are performed in-house and coordinated directly with your civil engineer from the initial site layout stage.
Do you provide services outside the City of Atlanta in the metro area?
Yes. We work throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area, including Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Rockdale, and Newton counties. Each jurisdiction has its own landscape and tree ordinance requirements, and we bring direct experience across all of them.
Can you coordinate directly with Atlanta-area civil engineers on shared project teams?
Yes. Coordination with civil engineers is a standard part of how we work. Our tree disposition plans, grading-coordinated planting plans, and land planning documents are produced to coordinate directly with civil grading and utility drawings. We work within whatever project management structure your team uses
Does Evergreen Design Group provide irrigation design services as a standalone service in Atlanta?
Yes. Our irrigation design team can be engaged independently of our landscape architecture services. We produce full irrigation construction documents for commercial and multifamily projects throughout metro Atlanta, including smart controller specifications and Georgia EPD-compliant design documentation.
What size projects does Evergreen Design Group handle in Atlanta?
We work across a wide range of project scales — from individual commercial pad sites requiring landscape plan approval to large master-planned communities involving phased land planning, full landscape architecture, and comprehensive irrigation design. Contact our team to discuss your specific project scope and schedule.
Can you serve as a subconsultant to a civil engineering or architecture firm on an Atlanta project?
Yes — that is one of our most common engagement structures in this market. We integrate into your project team and deliver the full landscape architecture scope as a subconsultant, coordinating directly with your project manager and other disciplines throughout the design and entitlement process.
When should landscape architects in Atlanta be engaged on a commercial development project?
As early as possible — ideally at the site planning stage, before the civil plan set is substantially developed. Early engagement allows tree preservation zone requirements, buffer yard layouts, stormwater BMP siting, and municipal landscape ordinance compliance to be integrated into the site layout before those decisions are locked in. Projects that bring an Atlanta landscape architect into the land planning conversation early consistently produce cleaner submittals and fewer revision cycles through the metro’s development review processes.
Does Evergreen Design Group work with homeowners or individual residential clients in Atlanta?
No. Our practice is exclusively B2B. We serve land developers, civil engineers, architects, and design-build contractors. We do not take on individual homeowner projects.
Does Evergreen Design Group have experience with BeltLine-adjacent and transit-oriented development projects in Atlanta?
Yes. We have worked on projects along the BeltLine corridor and in Midtown, West Midtown, and other transit-oriented redevelopment zones within the city. These projects carry overlay district requirements, green infrastructure provisions, and City Arborist review considerations that differ from standard suburban commercial entitlement, and our team is familiar with those distinctions.
Scope Your Atlanta Project with Our Team
If you have a commercial or multifamily project in the Atlanta metro and need a licensed landscape architect — for land planning, tree disposition plans, planting plans, irrigation design, hardscape, or full-scope landscape architecture — contact Evergreen Design Group. We’ll review your project details and provide a clear proposal. Most projects receive a response within one business day.
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