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APPROACH + IMPLEMENTATION I 2 and provide an opportunity to understand and enjoy the coastal barrier island shoreline environment. For the City's Beachfront Master Plan, EDAW developed an improvements framework that provided for active and passive spaces, and dune and beach planting. EDAW was recently hired by the City as a landscape design sub - consultant to complete Phase II of the City's Beachwalk, a pedestrian path providing beach views and access that is fully integrated into the beach dune system through extensive dune plantings and design features. A similar pedestrian path was the subject of Miami Beach's North Beach Recreational Corridor project which linked active and passive parks and beach amenities and included a major environmental restoration element which involved the replacement of large areas of invasive exotic trees with native beach vegetation. Elsewhere in South Florida, EDAW's work on the Davie Boulevard Corridor Master Plan included extensive streetscape and beautification improvements intended to encourage proposed desirable physical redevelopment that will completely transform the corridor from a bleak six lane roadway to a real community with a sense of place. At Tree Island Park, EDAW developed a plan that balanced active and passive recreation in a new park that also enhanced and preserved 70 acres of wetland prairie and tree hammocks. Relevant EDAW work elsewhere in the country includes: the Tuolumne River Restoration Projects in California, a massive river and wetlands project; the Myrtle Beach Parks and Recreation Master Plan, an active and passive parks plan for the urbanized barrier island city of Myrtle Beach; the St. Mary's Waterfront project in coastal Georgia, a National Park Service improvement effort that utilized extensive native plantings; the Cape Henlopen State Park Master Plan in coastal Delaware, a project which included a major environmental restoration and protection component; and the Atlantic Avenue Streetscape Improvements and Connector Parks, a project in the urban center of Virginia Beach that beautified the City's central corridor while linking a series of parks from north to south and creating safe attractive connections between hotels and residences on the ocean side of the street with retail and restaurants on the west side of the street, a condition very similar to that of Sunny Isles Beach. More detailed information on each of these projects is provided in the following pages. Together they represent a small part of EDAW's relevant work and demonstrate the high degree of expertise in the landscape design specialty areas being sought by the City of Sunny Isles Beach. In addition, they show EDAW's experience in successfully navigating dozens of agencies' landscape plans review and approval processes. The project selection also illustrates how EDAW is remarkably qualified to combine best practices and knowledge from around the country with local expertise and experience to create the most successful and responsive landscape design solutions for the City of Sunny Isles Beach. EDAW INC DESIGN, PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTS WORLDWIDE