REDEVELOPMENT

Few California law firms match our focus and ability in the redevelopment area. Through prior experience as city attorneys, city planners, and redevelopment agency staff, our attorneys bring a rich set of experiences, relationships and knowledge to our redevelopment practice. Our attorneys have worked on virtually every type of redevelopment matter from project area formation to plan adoption, and amendments to EIR review and CEQA findings to commercial and industrial development, to land acquisition and disposition, relocation, eminent domain, and public financing.

The strengths we offer the more than 50 public agency clients who rely on us for advice on the full spectrum of redevelopment matters is our complete understanding of the law, process, practice, and participants, and our ability to devise effective strategies and solutions to meet clients’ needs and goals. We provide experienced counsel to our public clients on the statutory requirements affecting public agencies, including the Brown Act, Public Records Act, noticing, public bidding and prevailing wages, and on issues relating to contracting and due process. Utilizing our high level of expertise in redevelopment law in California, our firm also represents numerous private sector clients as partners with local government in implementing successful individual projects within a community’s overall redevelopment program.

We can say that we wrote the book on redevelopment – literally. Three editions of A Legal Guide to California Redevelopment have been authored by the firm to provide a systematic reference source on major legal requirements and issues in the practice of redevelopment under the California Redevelopment Law. The book seeks to describe both the aspects of redevelopment law that are well established and the elements that are shifting and unresolved, and to treat redevelopment law in its modern policy and business context. As with our firm’s practice of the law, our approach in the Guide is to suggest how the law might be applied in actual practice where legal standards meet political and economic realities.

We are active in the California Redevelopment Association, developing and leading training workshops on redevelopment and affordable housing issues. Rounding out our experience, we have worked with legislators, local governments, and citizen groups on redevelopment and related legislation.

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