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LATC forms subcommittee to study merged-board option as legislature presses for efficiency
Summary
The Landscape Architects Technical Committee voted to form a subcommittee to study options—maintain status quo, reestablish a standalone board, or merge with the California Architects Board—after the legislature raised efficiency questions during the committee’s sunset review. Staff must submit written responses to the legislature’s questions within 30 days.
The Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC) created a subcommittee to research the governance options for landscape-architect oversight amid a legislative sunset review that flagged efficiency concerns.
At its March 22 meeting the committee agreed to convene a workgroup led by John Reshinsky and Andrew Bowden to analyze legislative and administrative history and to solicit stakeholder input. The subcommittee’s task is to evaluate three broad options: keep LATC as an advisory committee under the California Architects Board (CAB), reestablish a standalone California State Board of Landscape Architects, or form a multidisciplinary/merged board combining LA and architect oversight.
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