"Land Use, Transportation, and Equity"
 

Shamus Roller, Executive Director, Sacramento Housing Alliance
Shamus Roller is the Executive Director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance (SHA).  SHA is in its 20th year promoting affordable homes and increased opportunities for low income people and the homeless. 

Shamus also serves as the chair of the Coalition on Regional Equity, a collaboration of over 20 organizations addressing how land use planning and the built environment impacts the health of low income communities and communities of color.

Shamus is a graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. 
 
 

"The Sustainable Communities Planning Program"

 
Mike McKeever, Executive Director, Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)
Mike McKeever, AICP, was appointed Executive Director of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments Board of Directors on December 17, 2004. Previously, Mr. McKeever, was project manager of the Blueprint Project at SACOG.

Mike McKeever has focused his 30 plus year career on effective regional planning. He was the owner of an urban planning consulting practice in Portland, Oregon and since 2001 was Blueprint Project Manager and then Executive Director of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. During Mr. McKeever's tenure at SACOG, the organization has established itself as a national leader in sustainable, integrated regional planning. He was a key contributor to California Senate Bill 375, the nation's most comprehensive regional planning law linking climate change, transportation, land use and housing planning and was appointed by the California Air Resources Board to chair the Regional Targets Advisory Committee, a 21 person statewide committee to assist in the implementation of SB375.

Prior to joining SACOG, Mr. McKeever led planning projects throughout the country, authored several manuals on regional collaboration, and has been the primary developer of the innovative I-PLACE3S planning software. He is often invited to speak to national and international audiences, and in 2008, was featured in a front page Wall Street Journal article on the Sacramento area’s unique regional planning accomplishments.

He is a native of Nampa, Idaho and received his B.A. with Honors from the University of Oregon. He lives in Sacramento with his wife.


Bill Yeates, Attorney, Kenyon Yeates  
Bill graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972. In 1974 he received a Master of Science Degree in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan. In 1978 Bill received his Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law and was admitted into the State Bar of California that same year. From 1978 to 1984 he was a staff counsel for the California Coastal Commission. In December 1994, Bill set up a solo-practice, which continued until September of 2007. In October 2008 he entered into a partnership with Charity Kenyon forming Kenyon Yeates LLP.

Kenyon Yeates, in part, focuses on environmental and planning and zoning law and policies which emphasizes litigation and consultation in areas of land use, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Endangered Species Act (CESA), and election law.

For the past several years Bill has conducted public education workshops on CEQA for the Planning and Conservation League Foundation (PCLF) and the Northwest Environmental Training Center throughout California. Bill is the author of PCLF’s Community Guide to CEQA, which was updated in 2007 with a special focus on the effects of global warming/climate change, and has also been translated into Spanish.