Charles Carter

Biography

Charles S. Carter has been Director of Land Use and Environmental Planning for Stanford University Land, Building and Real Estate since March of 2004. He was named acting Director of the University Architect and Planning Office (UAPO) in December 2003. He was promoted into the role from his previous position as Associate Director for Environmental and Community Planning. He is responsible for long range land use planning, including stewardship of land-based resources, land use permitting and entitlement, and coordination with local planning and regulatory agencies.

Charles graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning in 1979. He worked in private design offices in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area before he first joined the Stanford Planning Office in 1984 as a campus planner. He returned to Utah State to work in its Campus Planning Office where he planned such diverse facilities as a working dairy farm and a new engineering center. He returned to California to work as a City Planner in the East Bay before returning to Stanford in late 1988. Since then he has worked on a number of planning and development projects with emphasis in the Medical Center, foothills and rural lands, and resource management. As a campus planner, prior to focusing on environmental planning, he worked on numerous campus landscape, infrastructure and building projects. Most recently, he has been involved in obtaining and coordinating implementation of the General Use Permit (GUP); the master land use permit for the development of 2 million square-feet of academic facilities and 3000 housing units at the University. He is currently a key team member on the planning and entitlement team for a 1.5 million square-foot renewal and replacement project for Stanford University Medical Center

Charles currently serves on the Advisory Board for Utah State University Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He obtained a California Landscape Architects License in 1987.

Charles has been married to his wife Melanie (BS, Nutrition and Food Science, USU 1979) for 30 years. They have two children. Stephen is a bicycle mechanic and racer in Palo Alto and San Francisco. Victoria lives in New York City and works in the film industry (watch for her name in credits for Shine a Light). Charles enjoys cooking, camping, jazz and blues and, of course, fly fishing. He dearly misses cross-country skiing in the Wasatch and Bear River ranges.