Orange Village adds Landscape Architect Kathy Moran of Painesville to its Architectural Board

Published: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 2:27 PM

By Faith Boone, Sun News

ORANGE VILLAGE - For the first time, the village’s Architectural Review Board will have a landscape architect join the team.

Kathy Moran, of Painesville, was sworn in as the new landscape architect for the board at the April 11 council meeting. Moran has been in the landscaping business for over 30 years and is the senior landscape architect for YardMaster, located in Cleveland.

Moran was thrilled when she received the position with the board and thinks it will be interesting as well as a lot of fun. She said she wants to get good landscaping into the Orange community.

“At this point, I am just feeling my way and we’re going to be talking about the design standards, and it’s a universal concept,” Moran said. “It really relies on being able to communicate with the homeowner or client well so they know there is a benefit to doing things the right way the first time.”

Moran has done projects in Orange over the years and sees the village as a lovely, diverse, bedroom community.

Moran is a 1975 landscape architecture graduate of The Ohio State University. Her first position at Connelly Landscaping, located in Avon, lasted from 1975-1981 where she worked on client development, design and sales. She then worked for Thornton Environmental Industries for a year in Cincinnati and went on to become part of YardMaster, where she has been since 1983. At YardMaster, Moran talks with clients about residential and commercial projects and handles the plans, material selection and purchasing for all projects. Her sales efforts have brought in over $15 million in revenue.

Moran has been a voting member on the Eastlake Architectural Review Board since 1990 and has taught as an adjunct faculty for the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Technologies at Cuyahoga Community College in Highland Hills since 1994.

She believes it will be interesting to see how others approach the review process in Orange and how the idea of standards are enforced and reinforced with the general community.

“I think having a landscape architect on the board will be of value to the residents and we look forward to working with her,” said Mayor Kathy Mulcahy.

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