Environmental Law, Land Use, and Development— Land use, zoning and environmental concerns arise in virtually every aspect of commercial life and affect every Washington business at one time or another. The lawyers at Carlson, Boyd & Bailey have extensive experience with the multitude of legal issues concerning:
- Agricultural law and agribusiness
- Buying, selling or leasing property
- Condemnations law
- Construction
- Contracts
- Development
- Partnerships
- Permits
- Land use
- Regulatory takings
- Variances
- Wetlands
- Zoning disputes
Our firm uses that experience to work with clients to facilitate transactions, to intercede effectively on behalf of our clients in regulatory matters, and to provide sound legal advice to our clients for which a real estate transaction is only an incidental occurrence.
Those of our clients who operate directly in the real estate business have, in the past few years, had to function in an increasingly volatile environment. Competition is fierce, tax laws are constantly changing, environmental regulation remains and financing is critical to success. Our firm understands that a real estate transaction is not a negotiation over form documents. We understand that every deal is fragile until it is closed successfully. And we understand that, even after the deal closes, it may need to withstand challenges on many fronts.
In addition to litigation and trial experience, we also counsel clients in their dealings with local zoning boards and citizens' groups, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and with other federal and state entities. We provide our clients with legal and practical guidance in their deal structuring, tax planning, due diligence investigations and post-closing business affairs. We help our clients anticipate and avoid problems as well as to work through those problems that do arise. We combine keen insight, expertise, and experience to go beyond a cookie-cutter approach and develop personalized plans to achieve the best results for our environmental law, real estate, land use, and development clients. For further information, please contact Carlson, Boyd & Bailey today.
