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Environmental Law
The Firm offers extensive and comprehensive counsel to both public and private-sector clients on all matters pertaining to the entitlement and zoning of real property for institutional, residential, commercial, industrial and infrastructure projects. The Firm can handle every aspect of the entitlement process, from identifying the development potential and status of any piece of property and the permits and approvals needed for any type of project, to guiding entitlement teams through government-related administrative processes and litigation of permit approvals. The Firm can guide clients through all land use processes, including vested entitlement rights, general and specific plan development and amendments, zone changes, variances and conditional use permits. The Firm’s areas of expertise include ballot box planning, the Subdivision Map Act, the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), the Coastal Act, and the California Planning and Zoning law.
Specifically the Firm:
- Provides legal and strategic advice in the preparation of mitigated negative declarations, environmental impact reports and statements under NEPA and CEQA.
- Represents clients in amending general plans, negotiating development rights, obtaining coastal development permits, obtaining conditional use permits and variances and the processing of complex subdivision projects.
- Assembles and directs multi-disciplinary consulting teams to secure land use entitlements, including an integrated teamwork approach drawing on the Firm's transactional real estate and environmental practices.
- Assists and represents clients with environmentally sensitive projects affected by coastal zone, wetlands, resource protection, endangered species, archeological and historic preservation.
- Represents clients before state and local governmental administrative bodies and providing specialized litigation counsel in state and federal court for all land use entitlement issues.
WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SITING
As a part of its Land Use Practice, the Firm has extensive expertise in representing wireless telecommunications companies in the siting of wireless facilities throughout the State of California. Our Firm’s expertise includes experience litigating matters of first impression on state and federal law issues for wireless telecommunications companies. The Firm’s wireless telecommunications practice includes:
- Assembling and directing cross-disciplinary teams in obtaining conditional use permits for private property sites.
- Providing comprehensive advice to wireless companies on accessing the public rights-of-way and other issues pertaining to statewide public rights-of-way franchise rights.
- Guiding wireless telecommunications companies through the CEQA process and providing advice on matters pertaining to the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Utilities Code sections 7901 and 7901.1 and the Coastal Act.
- Providing advice regarding rights that inhere from existing conditional use permits, including counsel to wireless companies for ongoing site upgrades and site modifications.
- Negotiating leases.
- Providing in-depth litigation counsel in both federal and state courts on wireless telecommunications siting issues.
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