Environmental & Land Use Attorneys

We assist businesses throughout Oregon and Washington with environmental issues in a range of business contexts. Environmental issues often arise in business and real estate transactions, as well as during land development and other types of regulated activities. Our environmental and land use attorneys are experienced with the hodgepodge of environmental regulatory regimes, and we help businesses efficiently navigate overlapping and sometimes competing obligations to multiple government agencies. We also handle enforcement matters, and civil litigation involving environmental issues.

Practice Group Attorneys

Services

Environmental

Our environmental experience includes the following:

Investigation and remediation of contaminated property
Real estate transactions involving environmentally sensitive property
NEPA and SEPA review
Responses to EPA, state and local enforcement actions
Private disputes involving environmental impacts

Land Use

Land use in the Pacific Northwest is regulated by a complex network of state and local laws, and land use permitting often involves unpredictable public process. Our attorneys help businesses efficiently secure needed approvals that limit regulatory costs and keep development projects on schedule. We foster respectful relationships with local governments and other stakeholders, and work creatively to solve problems that arise in the permitting process.

We also handle other land use-related matters such as private covenants, enforcement issues, disputes between landowners, and environmental regulations affecting land use.

Our land use experience includes the following:

Permitting approvals and appeals
Comprehensive plan amendments, zone changes, and long term planning processes
Master plans and planned unit developments
Subdivisions, partitions and property line adjustments
Destination resort development
Right to farm issues
Code enforcement
Property dispute resolution
Restrictive covenants
Environmental issues
Right of way issues