KEAVA CAMPBELL

Keava Campbell is an Associate Planner at Winterbrook Planning, where she combines technical expertise with a passion for sustainable development. Her strengths include managing and streamlining complex planning applications, coordinating with clients and jurisdictions, and conducting GIS analysis. Since joining Winterbrook, she has specialized in permitting, contract planning, and long-range housing planning for a range of public and private organizations.

“Often people think of planning in an urban context first; however, we need our rural communities, and I find working in varied communities across the State especially gratifying.“

Keava’s career is built on a strong technical foundation paired with a deep interest in the social dimensions of urban and rural development. She earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering and Sustainability from Oregon State University, where she honed her skills in problem-solving and sustainable design. While in college and after graduating, she worked as a structural designer, gaining experience with engineering processes, materials, and drafting. Motivated to explore the broader impacts of infrastructure, Keava pursued a Master’s degree in City Planning and Design at Queen’s University Belfast. There, she deepened her expertise in sustainable and community-driven development. She then remained in Ireland to work as a Town Planner for WHP Telecoms Ltd, where she led planning efforts for a major rural development project requiring extensive stakeholder engagement and detailed project management.

Now at Winterbrook Planning, Keava draws on her diverse background to tackle new challenges and make meaningful contributions to planning in her home state.

In her free time, Keava enjoys running, cooking, reading, traveling, and going to concerts!

Representative Projects:

Redmond CORE3
Keava has supported Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC)’s CORE3 facility, a regional public safety training center and emergency response hub, from site preparation efforts to design development. Her work has included a variance application to advance the final plat, guidance on goal exception strategies to optimize site use, and navigation of a complex permitting process with key code and site constraints. Keava has coordinated with the design team to ensure land use needs were met and with City of Redmond staff to address challenging standards, including several successful design deviation requests, which ultimately led to project approval. Keava continues to support the team by providing guidance on conditions of approval and coordinating with the City to ensure successful development.

DLCD Housing Planning Assistance
Keava is currently working on six DLCD Housing Planning Grant Assistance projects for cities statewide, including Housing Capacity Analyses (HCAs), code updates, and a custom housing action plan. For the HCAs, she uses GIS to conduct buildable land inventories, followed by analysis to determine residential land needs. These initial analyses inform the measures jurisdictions could adopt to expand housing opportunities, the final output of the HCAs. For the code updates, Keava has audited cities’ codes and recommended necessary amendments to ensure jurisdictions comply with recent changes to housing legislation or go above and beyond to promote housing development. Keava is supporting the adoption process to ensure these code updates are implemented successfully. Winterbrook’s work across these grants helps cities work toward meeting their housing production targets while providing housing opportunities that best meet their community’s needs.

Acania Farm Stand
Keava worked with Acania Farm to secure permits for a farm stand and processing facility, enabling the farm to process and sell its products on site. Her work included preparing the application and collaborating closely with the client to fully capture the farm stand proposal. The permitting process required extensive coordination with County planners, transportation engineers, and the client, along with a thorough understanding of the project to present it accurately to the hearing body. This work carried the farm successfully through the initial application and a subsequent local appeal.

PGE Milliken Towers Gresham
Keava coordinated a consolidated Special Purpose District Review permit for a replacement transmission corridor, requiring detailed analysis of multiple intersecting environmental overlays. Preparing this permit required close coordination with the project engineers, environmental specialists, and the arborist to ensure the initial submission included the information needed for permit review. The permit process also included coordinating and presenting at a neighborhood meeting, where the team fielded questions about the work and addressed neighbor concerns. Keava worked successfully with the City and the client to refine the submission so it could be reviewed as a consolidated Type I review, saving the project team time and resources.