Steve Hultberg is a Partner with Radler White Parks & Alexander LLP and heads Radler White's Central Oregon office. He is a member of the firm's Land Use and Real Estate practices. Steve has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the The Best Lawyers in America© from 2010-2020. He has also been recognized as an industry leader by Chambers USA from 2010-2020; the publication notes that he has “rapidly developed a formidable reputation for zoning and land use from the firm's Bend office” and that his work is held in "high regard."

With more than 20 years in private practice, Steve has gained significant land use entitlement experience, including practice before local governments, administrative agencies, and appellate courts. He has also developed broad real estate transactional knowledge, working on financing documents, purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, and easements. Steve's clients include commercial, residential, industrial, and institutional developers, public agencies, timber and agri-business companies, sand and gravel operators, and telecommunication companies. Steve represents several destination resorts in Oregon, and is responsible for a wide range of land use, environmental, real estate and regulatory matters for his resort clients. In support of renewable energy clients, he has performed land use due diligence, regulatory analysis and transactional work for a proposed wind farm and a major natural gas transmission line. Steve represents Oregon State University (OSU) in connection with its Cascades Campus long-range planning efforts in Bend. He recently secured approval of OSU-Cascades’ 128-acre campus master plan from the City of Bend, which will allow the university to expand to 5,000 students over the next 15 years.

Before joining Radler White, Steve was Of Counsel to Ball Janik LLP in its highly regarded real estate and land use practices. He also practiced land use and real estate law for ten years at Perkins Coie in Portland. While in law school, Steve clerked at the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA).

Steve has served on a number of local government advisory panels assisting local governments with their infrastructure planning needs, including the City of Bend's Urban Growth Boundary Technical Advisory Committee and Sewer Infrastructure Advisory Committee. He currently Chairs Bend’s Citywide Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC), which provides recommendations related to the updates of the Transportation System Plan (TSP) and Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). The CTAC is also responsible for providing policy recommendations to City Council on a variety of transportation-related policies and funding strategies. Steve previously served on the executive board of directors of Economic Development for Central Oregon, a private non-profit organization dedicated to diversifying the Central Oregon economy by recruiting new companies and helping existing firms expand.

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• 2011 Land Use Case Review – Important Cases from the Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA), the Oregon Court of Appeals and the Oregon Supreme Court, Salem, OR.


• December 8, 2011, 15th Annual Land Use Law Seminar, The Seminar Group, Portland, OR.


• September 29, 2010, Lots of Record, 2010 Ball Janik LLP Annual Conference on Current Issues in Real Estate and Land Use, Portland, OR.