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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
CURRENT MEMBERS
Jay
Beals Based
in Sacramento and founded in 1978, beals alliance,
inc. specializes in public and educational sector
projects. Jay Beals has thirty-eight years of
experience in the field of public practice
landscape architecture with an emphasis in park and
recreational planning and athletic facility
planning and design. As a consultant to public
agencies, Beals has concentrated his efforts in
public projects that provide benefit to communities
and youth through design of interactive spaces
utilizing a cooperative community design process
and client partnerships. Beals
received his degree in Landscape Architecture from
the University of Oregon in 1971. He is an active
volunteer in various organizations including
California Park and Recreation Society (CPRS-State
Board for Park Operations and District II Board of
Directors), Past President of the Northern
California Chapter of Sports Turf Managers
Association (NCC/STMA), Public Practice Committee
member of American Sports Builders Association
(ASBA), Rotary (Past Board of Directors San Jose
and President Elect for the Rancho Murieta
Chapter), and past member and Chair of the
Landscape Architecture Department Advisory Council
for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He speaks regionally
and nationally on Park and Athletic Planning,
Sustainable Environments and Human
Relations. Jay
and his wife, Sally, have two grown sons: Seth, who
is with the Beals Alliance team; and Josh, who is
in the US Army based in Washington. Jay enjoys
spending time at his beach house, which provides a
peaceful environment to read and contemplate life.
He has also developed a passion for the art of
Bonsai and creates miniature tree compositions.
Creating community continues to remain at the
forefront of his passions.
Ruth
Coleman Ruth
Coleman currently serves as Director of California
State Parks. She was appointed Chief Deputy for
California State Parks in January 2002, after
having joined the department in December 1999 as
Deputy Director for Legislation. Before
coming to State Parks, Coleman worked as Policy
Director for Assemblywoman Helen Thomson for one
year, responsible for legislative issues relating
to water, agriculture and land use. Prior to that
she was Legislative Director for State Senator Mike
Thompson, coordinating his legislative agenda and
providing staff leadership on major environmental
legislation such as a park bond, salmon and
steelhead restoration; and the protection of the
Headwaters Forest. Ms.
Coleman also has worked for the Air Resources Board
in the electric vehicle program and the Office of
the Legislative Analyst, focusing on fiscal and
policy issues in the natural resources area,
particularly the Department of Parks and Recreation
and the Department of Fish and Game. Prior to her
work in Sacramento, she spent three years teaching
mathematics as a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Swaziland, Southern Africa. Ms.
Coleman received her Master in Public
Administration from Harvard University, and a B.A.
in Economics from Occidental College.
Judy
Corbett Judith
A. Corbett is the founder and for the past 25 years
has served as Executive Director of the Local
Government Commission. She holds an MS in Ecology
from the University of California and was
co-developer of the highly acclaimed Village Homes,
a model for sustainable development located in
Davis, CA. Corbett has coauthored three books on
resource efficient land use and building design,
most recently Designing Sustainable Communities:
Learning from Village Homes. With
the Local Government Commission, she has published
over 50 policy guidebooks for local government
officials on topics including community water
sustainability, hazardous waste reduction,
recycling, energy conservation and alternative
energy, sustainable economic development, and
resource-efficient land use patterns. The Ahwahnee
Land Use Principles, spearheaded by Corbett,
forecast the Smart Growth movement. Corbett
has served as a featured speaker at conferences
throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe.
She was named by Time Magazine as a "Hero for the
Planet" and in 2005 received the National
Leadership in Planning Award from the American
Institute of Planning. She serves as a Board member
for the Rail-Volution Conference and was a member
of the Board of Directors of the Congress for the
New Urbanism for the past 15 years.
Kerry Daane
Loux A
registered landscape architect since 1980, Kerry
Daane Loux is Director of Davis Operations for MIG,
Inc., specializing in site-specific planning and
design including parks and recreation, urban
design, streetscapes and plazas, schools and
community gardens, commercial and residential
projects. Her primary responsibilities include
project administration, public participation and
outreach, design development, oversight of
construction documents and construction
administration. Prior
to joining MIG, Loux managed a private practice in
Davis, California. She previously worked with San
Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento region landscape
architecture firms, including Amphion Environmental
in Oakland and Melvin Lee Associates in San
Francisco. Loux
has taught UC Davis Landscape Architecture and UC
Davis Extension courses and is a founding member,
currently Chair of UC Davis Landscape Architecture
Program's Advisory Board. A member of the American
Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) since 1976,
she has served as Director and President of the
Northern California Chapter. Loux
received a B.S. Environmental Planning and
Management/Landscape Architecture from UC Davis in
1978.
Jim Gray,
CCIM As
Jim Gray, a broker and developer for over 27 years,
Gray advises landlords, tenants, business owners
and government entities and other organizations in
Investments, Office properties, Sale/Leasebacks,
Development, REO, and Probate and Estate Advisory
Services. Gray was founder
and president of Sacramento Valley Commercial
Associates Inc., which did business for 8 years as
NAI Sacramento Valley Commercial Associates and
Coldwell Banker Commercial Capital Valley prior to
the merger with BT Commercial. After the merger
with NAIBT, Gray became the Sacramento Region's
managing partner and helped with all aspects of
planning, growth and the company's steering
committee until returning to full time client
service in July of 2008. Gray served a three-year
term on the Leadership Council of NAI
Global. Jim Gray is a
founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Community Business Bank; a former member of the
Board of Directors of Yolo Community Bank, which
was acquired by North Valley Bancorp; and Chairman
of the Board of Directors of Sutter Health, a
California nonprofit public benefit corporation
headquartered in Sacramento that serves as the
parent of a health care system that operates
throughout northern California. Gray is a graduate
of the University of California at Davis with a
degree in Housing and Community Development. In
addition, Gray is a graduate of the National
Mortgage Bankers Association School of Mortgage
Banking. Jim Gray and his wife, Robin Affrime, have
been married since 1975. They live in a solar home
that they built together in Davis, California. They
have an adult son Jacob Gray, who resides in
Portland, Oregon.
Ken
Hiatt Ken
Hiatt has over 17 years of public sector experience
as an urban planner. In his current role as Deputy
City Manager for the City of Davis, he oversees a
broad range of public and private development
projects. He manages the city's Redevelopment
Agency's capital project program which includes a
variety of downtown streetscape/urban design
improvements, commercial reuse of city owned
properties, and development of cultural / civic
amenities. He has a particular interest in projects
that involve multi-agency and public-private
collaboration. His recent work includes the
redevelopment of the area around the Davis train
depot, establishment of the US Bicycling Hall of
Fame Headquarters and Museum in Davis, and numerous
private mixed-use and infill development
projects. Hiatt has also
worked as a land planner in the private sector
where he prepared construction drawings while
working for a local landscape architecture firm,
CoDesign, Inc. and managed application entitlements
for a commercial development company. Hiatt received his
B.S. in Landscape Architecture from UC Davis in1994
with a minor in Environmental Policy Analysis and
Planning.
Stephen "Skip"
Mezger As
senior landscape architecture for the University of
California, Davis, Skip Mezger is in charge of
landscape architecture, planning, project
management, and project review for all exterior
campus projects. He supervises a team five
designers and inspectors and manages the campus
memorial tree and bench program. Mezger's
current and recent projects include the design for
the exterior of the RMI Winery and Brewery, Hotel
and Conference Center, Native American Recognition
Sites, the Centennial Quad Walk, Hunt Hall
Landscape Improvements and the UCD Landscape
Heritage Plan. Before
bringing his expertise back to campus in 1999,
Mezger served as principal for CoDesign, Inc. in
Davis where his foci included design implementation
work, projects range from riparian systems, planned
unit developments, multi-family housing, commercial
and residential developments, and park master
plans. In
addition to serving on the Advisory Board for the
Landscape Architecture program, Mezger lectured for
more than ten years in the program, teaching
Introduction to Landscape Architecture, Landscape
Construction, Site Details, Grading and
Drainage. Mezger received his
BS in environmental planning and management from UC
Davis and an MLA from the University of Oregon.
David
Mogavero His commitment to
human-based architecture, the revitalization of
existing neighborhoods, economic and ecological
sustainability of communities, and participation in
the planning and design process by end-users is
well-known and recognized within professional and
citizen communities. As one of the most
experienced advocates and practitioners in land use
transit issues in the Central Valley, Mogavero has
actively lectured, written and advocated for
environmentally-sound urban development, including
infill and higher density transit and pedestrian
oriented development. Through his professional
practice and tenure as a board member and President
of the Environmental Council of Sacramento and The
Planning and Conservation League, he has
facilitated the widespread adoption of these
principles in many projects and communities
throughout Northern California.
Helen
Thomson Yolo County
Supervisor, Second District As an
Assemblywoman, Thomson established a strong
legislative record in health care, mental health,
water resources, public education, transportation
and local government finance. She chaired both the
Assembly Health Committee and the Select Committee
on Mental Health and authored 81 bills signed into
law by both Democratic and Republican governors.
Most notably, Thomson authored AB 88, the mental
health parity bill, which ended the historic
discrimination in insurance benefits for those who
suffer from severe mental illnesses, and AB 1421,
"Laura's Law," which established a court ordered
program of Assisted Outpatient Treatment for those
persons who are severely mentally ill. Thomson has served
on a variety of local and statewide boards,
including as First Vice President of the California
State Association of Counties (CSAC), where she
chairs the Health and Human Services Committee.
Most recently, Thomson sat on the hiring Board to
recruit the new President of the UC Davis School of
Nursing. Thomson is a
registered nurse and the mother of three grown
children as well as the proud grandmother of three
grandchildren. She lives in Davis with her husband
Captane P. Thomson, M.D., a practicing
psychiatrist.
Marq Truscott,
ASLA A member of the
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for
almost two decades, Truscott has held many
positions at the chapter, state and national
levels. These include: California Sierra Chapter
President, Treasurer, Board Member as well as,
California Council President, Treasurer, and Board
Member. In addition he has attended ASLA leadership
development workshops and has chaired a number of
ASLA sponsored events such as the Capitol Mall
design charrette and Sacramento Zoo design
charrette. In 1995, Truscott led the successful
lobbying effort, for the CCASLA, at the State
Capitol to address the licensure sunset
legislation. He is currently completing his second
term as Chairman of the Emerging Professionals
Committee for ASLA. Active in community
affairs, Truscott currently sits on the Board of
Directors for the Friends of Light Rail and
Transit, Advisory Board for the Landscape
Architecture Program at the University of
California Davis, Board of Trustees for the
Sacramento Theatre Company, and completed the
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
"Leadership Sacramento" program in 2003. In
addition, he is currently Chair of the Facilities
Committee for the new California Academy of the
Arts complex.
Erik
Vink Prior to joining
TPL, Vink served as Assistant Director of the
California Department of Conservation, overseeing
the state's farmland protection programs, including
the Williamson Act and California Farmland
Conservancy Program. He also worked for more than
10 years with American Farmland Trust as California
Director and in a variety of other capacities. In
the late 1980's, Vink worked on agricultural and
natural resource issues in Washington, D.C. and
California for U.S. Senator Alan Cranston
Vink holds a
bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from
the University of California, Davis. He is a 1996
graduate of the California Agricultural Leadership
Program as well as a 1997-98 Norman and Ruth Berg
Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Yolo County
Flood Control and Water Conservation District and
President of the Friends of the Davis Public
Library. He also serves as a board member of the
California Agricultural Education Advisory
Committee. Reared in the small
Fresno County, CA, farming community of Riverdale,
he now resides in Davis.
Lynne
Yackzan As
associate developer of the 110-acre Aspen
neighborhood, Yackzan was responsible for all
proceedings concerning annexation of the property
to the City of Davis. The neighborhood includes 317
single-family homes, 346 multi-family units, a
5-acre professional administrative office site, an
elementary school site, a 30-unit affordable
housing senior project and the first co-housing
project built in the United States, Muir Commons.
She was instrumental in planning and developing
Olympic Cottages and 30-unit age-restricted
condominium project, 12 of which are permanently
affordable rentals. Yackzan
was closely involved throughout the planning and
implementation stages of the creation of West Pond,
a 30-acre urban wildlife wetlands drainage pond.
She managed the pond maintenance and plantings for
3 years prior to turning the project over to the
City of Davis Public Works Department. Yackzan is
currently working on a 7-acre
mixed–use redevelopment project
fronting on the Sacramento River in the Triangle
area of West Sacramento and heading up Yolo
Property Management, a subsidiary of Yackzan Group,
Inc.
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Susan
Goltsman Susan
Goltsman is a founding principal of Moore,
Iacofano, Goltsman (MIG), Inc., who specializes in
applying social science to site-specific
environmental design for children, youth and
families. Her projects range from schools and
community parks to zoos and museums. She creates
unique environments that respond to the community,
organization, user needs, the functions of the
facility and the context. Goltsman has served on
regulatory committees of the U.S. Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (ATBCB),
developing accessibility guidelines for recreation
and outdoor environments. She also served on
national committees to adapt the Uniform Federal
Accessibility Standards to
children’s environments and
create guidelines for play areas. She has taught at
Stanford University and served as an advisor to UC
Davis, UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco State
University, the San Francisco Exploratorium and the
Adaptive Environments Center. Goltsman
is the author of several books, including Play for
All Guidelines, a groundbreaking presentation of
universal design and accessibility in children's
play environments. Her projects have won awards
from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, the
Center for Universal Design, the American Institute
of Architects, the American Planning Association,
the American Society of Landscape Architects, The
National Endowment for the Arts and the California
Park and Recreation Association. Goltsman
holda a BFA from Parson's School of Design and the
New School of Social Research, New York, a MS in
Environmental Psychology from the University of
Surrey, England and an MLA from North Carolina
State University. Goltsman served on
the UC Davis Landscape Architecture Program's
Advisory Board from 2002-2004.
Ken
Hough Since
1986, Ken Hough has managed planning programs for
the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. He is
currently Director of Community Planning &
Operations and is responsible for land use
planning, the regional rideshare and call box
programs, human resources and communications. He
previously held a similar position in Santa
Barbara, California and worked as a planner for the
San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC) and the Golden Gate Bridge,
Highway and Transportation District. Hough
received his Master of Arts degree in geography in
1982 from San Francisco State University and his
Bachelor of Arts degree from Chico State
University. He and his wife reside in
Sacramento. Hough served on the
UC Davis Landscape Architecture Program's Advisory
Board from 2002-2008.
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