The landscape design of the Anaheim Public Utilities Sustainability Education Center strives to serve as an example of sustainable site design by incorporating the following measures: native plant garden, xeriscape garden, habitat garden, bioswale garden, water harvest garden, low water-use lawn alternatives, demonstration edible garden, permeable paving, and smart weather-based irrigation controller and system. 

The project site is located on the Corner of Vermont Avenue and Rose Place in an industrial part of Anaheim lacking open space. The planting area accounts for nearly 25% of the site and introduces 50 different plant species in addition to the flexible Community Plaza and Outdoor Classroom. 

The planting along Vermont Avenue includes as a non-native Xeriscape Garden with street trees and Habitat Garden consisting of native plants beneficial to wildlife, focusing on bees, butterflies, and bird species.

The design of the interior garden site seeks to maximize flexibility for the events and functions while creating smaller intimate spaces. Permeable paving outside the classroom combines with a lawn substitute to create a large Community Plaza for events while minimizing the amount of paving and storm water run-off. 

Adjacent to the Outdoor Classroom is the Native Plant Garden, Demonstration Garden with edible plants, and a Bio-swale Garden that collects and cleans storm water from the parking lot to the north. Weaving through these gardens is a decomposed granite path with movable colorful Adirondack chairs for relaxation and garden viewing.