• Land Use Due Diligence/Pre-Development Analysis
  Research and analyze current zoning restrictions, land use designations, previous zoning approvals, building permits, covenants, affidavits, environmental issues, potential liabilities and future development potential. Evaluate proposed project description and preliminary site plan, arrange meetings with key government staff members and prepare project timelines, fee estimates, and entitlement strategy.
  
  
• Entitlement Services and Project Management
  Prepare applications for Site Plan Review, Adjustments, Modifications, Zone Variances, Conditional Use Permits, Plan Approvals, Zone Changes, Specific Plan Exceptions, Plan Amendments, and similar requests. We provide leadership through the entire entitlement process, from arranging negotiations with governmental officials to responding to questions from staff, as well as representation at public hearings.
  
  
• California Environmental Quality Act/National Environmental Policy Act Coordination
  Assist developers in all aspects of navigating CEQA (and NEPA, if applicable), including negotiations with lead and responsible agencies, coordination with preparer of Environmental Impact Report, developing responses to public comments and representation at all public hearings.
  

• Proposition 65
  Provide compliance advice and defense services relating to California's Proposition 65 and the Federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
  
  
• Environmental Due Diligence
  Handle all aspects of environmental due diligence for a wide-range of transactions and negotiation of agreements allocating environmental liabilities.
  
  
• Environmental Remediation and Compliance
  Advise commercial and industrial landowners/operators regarding compliance with federal, state and local environmental law and coordinate with regulatory agencies regarding specific environmental regulatory compliance issues.

• Real Property Agreements
  Prepare and negotiate a wide variety of real property and corporate agreements including purchase and sale agreements, leases, promissory notes and deeds of trusts.
  

Other professional legal services also include:

• Government, Community and Media Relations (including lobbying)
• Monitoring of Community Plan and General Plan Updates
  
• Conditional Use Permits for alcohol sales and service in retail stores, restaurants, bars and nightclubs
  
• Responses to enforcement actions
• Project Appeals and Mitigation Monitoring
• Administrative Law proceedings, hearings and appeals