Land Use and Environmental Law
Our land use and environmental attorneys advise and represent property owners throughout the real estate acquisition and development process. The firm’s experience and well-established relationships with a wide range of industry groups, state regulators, and local governments enables our team to provide comprehensive legal advice resulting in successful outcomes for our clients.
Our land use experience includes:
- Securing permits for nearly 1.7 million square feet of warehouse distribution center space in Thurston County
- Assisting residential developers with plat approvals for projects ranging in size from 4 to nearly 1,000 lots
- Working with development clients and property owners on strategies to retain entitlements to plats, approvals, and permits during the Great Recession and ongoing real estate crisis
- Advising and representing shoreline property owners in public hearings and appeals associated with local Shoreline Master Program amendments
Our Services:
- Land use entitlement due diligence and permitting
- Land Use Petition Act (LUPA) Appeals
- Subdivisions and Platting
- Conditional/Special Use Permits
- Zoning, Rezoning, and Variances
- Master Plans
- Planned Unit Developments
- Reasonable Use Exceptions
- Development Agreements
- Comprehensive Plan Amendments
- Code Amendments
- Eminent Domain
- Essential Public Facility Permitting
- Growth Management Act Regulation and Appeals
- Shoreline Regulation, Permitting and Appeals
- Critical Areas Regulation, Permitting and Appeals
- Corps of Engineers Permitting
- NPDES Permitting
- SEPA/NEPA Review
- Federal Endangered Species Act Regulation and Permitting
- Conservation Easements
- Model Toxics Control Act (MTCA) Liability and Defense