Land Use Planning / Zoning and Eminent Domain Waller Lansden has considerable experience in all areas of land use planning, zoning and eminent domain and is well positioned to assist clients with all aspects of development and redevelopment projects. Our breadth of experience allows us to be in the forefront in the land use arena, providing sophisticated land use, zoning and eminent domain advice and counsel to our clients.
Waller Lansden has extensive experience with, and knowledge of Tennessee's smart growth law and the regulatory, administrative, and litigation options available to entities affected by the law. Our firm has considerable experience in assisting clients to interpret, apply, and comply with complex and changing local, state, and federal environmental laws relating to the development of industrial, commercial, and residential properties. Waller Lansden acted as lead planning and environmental counsel on some of the state's largest commercial developments. Our attorneys have extensive experience before administrative, trial, and appellate courts in land use litigation, including condemnation, boundary and easement disputes, and have represented governmental entities and private entities with condemnation authority, as well as defendants in a multitude of eminent domain proceedings. Waller Lansden has particular experience in multi-party linear project condemnation proceedings associated with utility construction projects. Our clients with complicated land use projects benefit from our comprehensive experience in zoning, environmental, local, state, and federal administrative law and government relations. Our land use and zoning lawyers have extensive experience in assisting wireless communication and tower companies in obtaining zoning approvals for county and municipal planning commissions and boards of zoning appeals. Our firm's approach to our land use planning and zoning practice is to offer our clients not only superior land use and zoning counsel, but to also provide comprehensive assistance on the myriad of issues that site development in the 21st century entails: environmental, growth planning, real estate acquisition and financing, tax and government relations. These aspects of a project can all be addressed by our firm's attorneys. Our land use planning and zoning practice has involved numerous industry and commercial projects, including those related to regional shopping malls, significant single tenant developments, quarries, landfills, utility structures and telecommunication towers. |