Jon Kingstad
Jon Kingstad is an attorney in private practice and an Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Kingstad co-teaches with Bob Sykes a class on the design of planned developments, introducing students to the legal and regulatory aspects of development and their impact upon a development's physical form.

In addition, Kingstad has provided legal research and expertise for several of the department's regional planning projects. He assisted in the development of the final report and design guide for preventing stormwater runoff problems through watershed land planning and in various reports of the department's Green Infrastructure initiative. Kingstad was also a member of the team that established the Center for Rural Technology and Cooperative Development and that created the nation's first Water Quality Cooperatives (WQCs). These organizations are member-owned, non-profit associations that make it possible for rural residents to employ alternative technologies for supplying and treating water for new development and existing rural centers.

In his private practice, Kingstad concentrates on issues of municipal land use and environmental and real estate law. Before entering private practice, Kingstad served in the public sector working in the Public Utilities Division in the Minnesota Attorney General's Office and for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.