The Supplemental Benefit Fund (SBF), an organization formed by the City of Oroville & Feather River Parks and Recreation, is alive and well. There has recently been a request for projects to enhance the community and develop economic growth. The Feather River Conceptual Master Plan is...Read More

Riverbend Park, one of the 11 parks operated by Feather River Parks and Recreation District in Butte County, is still recovering from floods caused during the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway failure. At MDG, we've had the pleasure of working on that park for a couple of projects through the years and can't wait to complete the next phase of our work there. While new soccer fields are some of the greene...Read More

From Chico Enterprise-Record:

OROVILLE — Truckloads of soil amendment to aid with water conservation and carbon storage were delivered on Monday to the Riverbend Park soccer fields.

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In April, the City of Live Oak held a grand opening ceremony for the 27 acre, Live Oak Soccer Park. Greg Melton and MDG master planned the park and produced construction documents for the first 12 acre phase. The opening was a big hit and the community of Live Oak is ecstatic to have their new community park and a place for large scale soccer events. Shawn Rohrbacker managed the project for MDG...Read More

The Chico Area Recreation and Park District unanimously approved the concept of a professional service agreement with Melton Design Group last night. Here's the Enterprise Record article to learn more.

 

A big congratulations to Shawn Rohrbacker, his article on The New Aesthetic: Retrofit your Parks with Less Turf, Less Water and Less Maintenance was published in California Parks & Recreation Magazine. Great Job! Check out his article.

 

 

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Are you concerned with the future of water in California? Want to know what you can do to reduce your landscape water use? Want to know how to keep our rivers, lakes and oceans clean? Want to know how to reduce the risk of flooding during large storm events? If you answered Yes to any of these questions, you should attend this year's This Way to Sustainability Conference put on by the Institute...Read More

Melton Design Group was recently recognized by the (ASLA)American Society Landscape Architecture - California Sierra Chapter for exceptional design and took home TWO awards for the Chico City Plaza and Verbena Fields projects! MDG's Shawn Rohrbacker and Michael Cook (both far right of photo) were on hand to accept the awards at Fridays Design Awards Gala + Year End Meeting. For more about other...Read More

Melton Design Group recently volunteered planting design services for native plant restoration at Riverbend Park in Oroville CA. The project is in joint venture with the Feather River Recreation and Park District and the Boys and Girls Club of the North Valley. The Boys and Girls Club offers a 10 week CREW program (Career Readiness Empowered Workforce) to help provide youth with work and management experience.

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The attached photos and master plan are for streetscape improvements in downtown Gridley, CA. Original plans called for brick sidewalks and crosswalks but value engineering turned the brick sidewalks into a 4’ square pattern to match the existing walks. Crosswalks were kept standard.

Unique streetscape elements include the bulb out corners for pedestrian space, curved brick seat walls and columns with black site furniture accents; kiosk, benches, plant containers, bike racks, Read More