Established in 1991 and with offices in San Diego, Sacramento, Placer, Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties, HELIX Environmental Planning develops and implements innovative environmental compliance and sustainable design services throughout California and the western United States. HELIX has extensive experience helping public and private clients comply with environmental laws and regulations, manage natural and cultural resources, and design and construct sustainable projects. Our responsive, high-quality service enables clients to achieve their goals while benefiting the community and the environment. Many clients, as a measure of their confidence, bring their largest, most sensitive, and controversial projects to HELIX.
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HELIX attended the ribbon cutting for UC San Diego’s Pepper Canyon West Living and Learning Neighborhood, a 580,000-square-foot student residential complex consisting of two buildings accommodating 1,300 beds. HELIX provided environmental CEQA compliance, pre-construction biological monitoring, construction monitoring for biological and cultural resources, and arborist surveys for the project. The event was attended by Chancellor of UC San Diego Pradeep Khosla, Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, Senator Catherine Blakespear, and others.
We had an exciting Wednesday night at the San Diego Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) Awards and Scholarship Banquet. HELIX’s contributions were recognized through two awards – Outstanding CEQA Streamlining (for the County of San Diego Market Street Affordable Housing Categorical Exemption project) and Outstanding Technical Report (for the Tijuana River Valley Invasive Species Removal and Restoration Biological Technical Report). HELIX also served as a sponsor for the event to support the AEP Diversity in the Environmental Profession Student Scholarship.
HELIX staff had a great time at the scholarship golf tournament presented by the City of San Diego Engineering & Capital Projects Department and the San Diego Chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). The event raises funds for scholarships to benefit local San Diego engineering students at the high school and college levels.
One of HELIX’s very own won the longest drive contest for women at the 27th Annual City of Folsom Mayor’s Cup Golf Tournament benefiting Folsom’s CAVE Teen Centers. The CAVE program provides a safe, structured, and positive environment for middle school students to receive supervised after-school care.
HELIX’s restoration ecologists have been busy hosting a 2-day seminar with the Wetland Training Institute on the basics of habitat restoration for wetland and riparian areas. Attendees have been learning the fundamental elements of site selection, planning, and installation techniques essential to successful restoration planning.?
HELIX staff were excited to attend the ribbon cutting for Rainbow Municipal Water District’s Thoroughbred Lift Station in Bonsall, San Diego County. HELIX has been a part of the multi-year effort and construction process by providing environmental planning and compliance services, including the preparation of an Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration, technical studies, and biological and archaeological construction support and monitoring. This project is the District’s seventh lift station.
HELIX and the Lake County Parks and Recreation Department hosted the first of several public meetings to discuss the proposed 584-acre John T. Klaus Community Park located east of Clearlake Oaks.?The meeting educated attendees on the County’s planning process and provided an overview of environmental considerations, as well as elicited feedback on desired amenities and features from the public.?Scott Redding, Principal Landscape Architect and Lesley Owning, Principal Planner facilitated the discussions and reinforced the importance of a collaborative community design process.?? https://lnkd.in/gN5mcV9Z