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Kevin Lynch moved from Alexandria, Va. to Charlottesville in 1980, to attend the University of Virginia. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985. While in school, Kevin was a volunteer carpenter for the Charlottesville Housing Improvement Program. He served as vice chair of PK German (a student organization which organizes musical events) and was a disc jockey at WTJU. While in school, he worked for a number of local construction firms, in order to finance his education. Upon graduating from UVA, Kevin was employed by GE Fanuc Automation in Charlottesville and continued to take classes at UVA towards a MSEE. Kevin left GE in 1991 to start his own consulting practice, specializing in industrial control system software. Later that year, he was a co-founder of local band "Baaba Seth". He played guitar with the band until 1994, and has remained an active participant in the Charlottesville music scene. In the Fall of 1992, Kevin joined the Book Buddies Program and is now in his 8th year of tutoring at Johnson Elementary School. He also moved to his present residence on Locust Ave., and began renovating it from a duplex into a single family home. Shortly after moving into his current residence, Kevin joined the Martha Jefferson Area Neighborhood Association, prompted in part by the demolition of several nearby houses and the conversion of open green space to a parking lot by Martha Jefferson Hospital. Kevin was elected to the MJANA board in 1994 and served as president from 1996-1997. During that time, Kevin worked on various neighborhood protection issues, including changing the land use designation for a block of houses adjacent to the hospital from commercial to residential, preventing a major increase in the scale of commercial development on the corner of High St. and Locust Ave., and helping to create a comprehensive plan for the neighborhood. The neighborhood and Martha Jefferson Hospital now enjoy very good relations. Kevin joined the Charlottesville Federation of Neighborhood Associations in 1995 and served on its board from 1996 to the present. He was president in 1998-1999. During this time he worked on a number of City-wide issues, including neighborhood protection (particularly in helping neighborhoods prevent inappropriate development), regional transportation (promoting traffic calming and working to prevent residential streets from being used as regional thoroughfares), preventing increasing density of public housing in Central City neighborhoods and increasing citizen input to the City's decision making process (including the creation of an e-mail list with over 80 neighborhood association members in 19 neighborhoods, which all neighborhoods are able to use as necessary). Kevin also worked to strengthen ties between City and Albemarle County neighborhood associations. Kevin J. Lynch
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