Reply To: State of the Profession

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

It is not completely symbiotic. We are part of the free market whether we like it or not. No one in the free market should be oblivious to responsibility or not apply their own values whenever possible. Most people in any endeavor do not behave badly, but a few do – that goes for LAs as well.

I think the statistics will show, and I don’t even know why I have to point this out, that LAs work a lot when a lot of development is going on and don’t work so much when it is not. The dirty little secret is that our profession is the design of development on the land.

Is all development on the land irresponsible? I don’t think so. I do think that many of us in our profession have been conditioned to put a connotation on the word “development” of only pertaining to bad projects or projects done by exploitive people.