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Karl Kehde, Director of the Smarter Land Use Project

Karl has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts from Lehigh University. He also holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Rutgers University. Additionally, he served three years as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marines.

Karl Kehde was a member of New Jersey Governor Byrne's original Pinelands Review Committee to initiate policy on one million acres of Pinelands. He also served five years on an Advisory Committee working on New Jersey's State Department Plan, and eight years as a member of his town planning board. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Clean Water Association and, as a developer, received a Special Award of Merit from the United States Environmental Protection Agency and was awarded the Distinguished Planning Citation by the American Planning Association.

Karl personally designed, developed, and marketed three major residential real estate projects. He has built active and passive solar homes, implemented energy and wildlife conservation deed restrictions, and donated land to conservation organizations.

From 1989 to 2003 Karl worked independently -- being funded philanthropically -- with neighborhood groups, developers, government officials and environmental groups involved in forty-eight separate proposed land developments to research the collaborative planning process detailed in Collaborative Land Use Planning. He has written the guidebook and invented the Project Modeling Kit so that you can succeed with collaborative planning on your own with no outside assistance. He is now on the road sharing ideas for trust building, reconciliation, and collaboration.

Karl appreciating the flow of Life ... near Winchester, Virginia