Helix Environmental Planning Inc.

HELIX Environmental Planning completed the NEPA Environmental Assessment and technical studies for a proposed pedestrian bridge that would connect a terminal in San Diego’s Otay Mesa to Tijuana’s A.L. Rodriguez International Airport.  The Environmental Assessment allowed the U.S. State Department to issue a presidential permit for the project under the amended Executive Order 11423. The permit allows Otay-Tijuana Venture L.L.C., a binational investment group, to build and operate the San Diego-Tijuana Airport Cross Border Facility. This facility is intended to provide U.S. originating or destined air travelers quick, secure, and reliable access to flights at the Tijuana Airport, reduce congestion and curb economic losses associated with border crossing delays.

For the complete story, visit http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/04/cross-border-terminal-clears-critical-hurdle/

The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ (SITES™) announced the selection of HELIX Environmental Planning’s Headquarters Landscape Conversion project (HELIX’s Landscape Conversion) as one of the first landscapes to participate in a new program testing the nation’s first rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance.

HELIX’s Landscape Conversion will join more than 150 other projects from 34 states as well as from Canada, Iceland and Spain as part of an international pilot project program to evaluate the new SITES rating system for sustainable landscapes, with and without buildings.  Sustainable landscapes can clean water, reduce pollution and restore habitats, while providing significant economic and social benefits to land owners and municipalities.

http://www.sustainablesites.org/

As a Senior Air Quality Specialist, Mr. Slavick brings to HELIX more than 20 years of experience providing air quality services in California and the western United States. He has expertise in air quality impact analyses, Clean Air Act conformity, greenhouse gas emission inventories, climate change studies, health risk assessments and air quality permitting. Mr. Slavick’s experience includes private development, transit and transportation, airport, marine port, military and energy infrastructure projects. His broad range of air quality expertise integrates well with HELIX’s existing service areas including CEQA/NEPA compliance, resource agency permitting, natural resource management, noise impact analysis, landscape architecture and design, and GIS.  Mr. Slavick can be reached at .