Land Use
Our Expertise
We help clients secure the full range of development approvals across cities and counties throughout Virginia. Our lawyers are deeply familiar with local planning departments, zoning administrators, and development services staff, and we use those relationships to move applications efficiently through the land use and permitting process. The group has handled successful rezonings, special and conditional use permits, special exceptions, and variances across a multitude of land use types and industry sectors.
Early engagement and coordination with clients, client teams, municipalities, elected and appointed officials, and stakeholders is critical to our work developing successful projects. We perform practical zoning due diligence at acquisition, align contracts with entitlement risk, and sequence public outreach to avoid delay.
We regularly guide clients in developing residential, multi-family, mixed-use, retail, hospitality, health care, technology and energy infrastructure and manufacturing and logistics facilities from concept to opening, often in collaboration with colleagues in commercial real estate, construction and environmental law to address all facets of the acquisition, use and development of property.
We also bring industry-specific depth to technology and energy infrastructure development that requires careful navigation of federal, state, and local regulatory frameworks. The team has deep experience guiding carriers, tower companies, and turn-key vendors through site acquisition, leasing and permitting of wireless infrastructure. The same discipline applies to energy infrastructure, both renewable and non-renewable, where we coordinate entitlement pathways for projects to avoid later redesign and delay.
When approvals are challenged or delayed, we preserve the record and pursue administrative remedies, vested rights determinations, and appeals in state and federal courts in Virginia, always looking for parallel solutions that keep projects on track.
