Land Use & Zoning

Whether it is for private, industrial, open use, or commercial land, we seek our clients’ best interests before zoning boards and planning commissions. Depending on your needs and goals, we can assist you by assessing the current zoning restrictions, preparing and making appeals to amend permitted uses of land, as well as requesting variants to zoning regulations, as may be needed upon review.

We assist our clients in understanding current restrictions ranging from certain activities allowed on the premises, the understood character of the community, property values, traffic issues, building height restrictions, to any encroachment by facilities viewed as unwanted by the public. By having a full understanding of the restrictions and current purposes, our law firm can develop a plan for amending development plans as the client sees fit. Zoning ordinances are meant to promote the general welfare, though oftentimes, variants to restrictions may be needed and often prove to be quite beneficial toward a community’s development once they are brought into full consideration before a board.

The request for a variance could be as simple as requesting the ability to construct a fence of a material better suited for its function than is allowable by a local ordinance, or perhaps a request may be for several variances in order for a developer to be able to use a plot of land in a way that could benefit the community at large.

We also provide representation in disputes, including neighborly negotiations over nuisances; deed provisions like restrictive covenants that might have more limitations on property such as setback lines, house sizes, land use proportions or requirements to enhance aesthetics; and the use of easements for things such as park access, preserving open space, or passage of utility lines.

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