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Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt is one of the leading Northwest law firms in the practice of land use law. Our land use team, led by Peter Livingston and Steve Morasch, specializes in working cooperatively with local governments and state agencies to find innovative solutions to all types of land use permitting problems. However, on those occasions when speaking softly proves insufficient, our land use team has the experience and skills to wield the "big stick" of litigation with precision and effectiveness.
Client Services
Our land use attorneys provide complete legal assistance to landowners and developers for all types of land use issues, including:
- Land use due diligence and other predevelopment questions
- Destination resort development
- Subdivisions, partitions, property line adjustments and legal lot issues
- Site plan review, development review and design review
- Conditional uses, variances and nonconforming uses
- Zone changes and comprehensive plan amendments
- Annexations and urban growth boundary extensions
- Traffic, transportation and access management issues, including application of the Oregon Highway Plan (OHP), local Transportation System Plans (TSP), and LCDC's Transportation Planning Rule (TPR)
- ODOT approach road permits under OAR Chapter 734, Division 51
- Street vacations
- Wetlands, habitat, and other Goal 5 resources, as well as Metro Title 3 and ESA issues
- DSL removal-fill permits/CWA section 404 permits
- Development of farm and forest land, and other rural land issues
- Matters before the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) and the Oregon Court of Appeals
- Contested case hearings under the APA
- Exactions, dedications and other conditions of approval that violate the Dolan rule
- System development charges (SDCs) and credits
- 120-day Mandamus actions and other trial work, including declaratory judgments, injunctions and damages/compensation for constitutional violations
Representative Clients
- Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon
- Clear Channel
- Boise Cascade Corporation
- John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
- Meadow Outdoor Advertising
- Menasha Corporation
- Norway Development
- Office Depot
- Panattoni Development
- PS Business Parks
- Simpson Housing Limited Partnership
- The Rouse Company
- Tom Moyer Properties
- Thornburgh Resort Company
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