We have built a reputation for successfully guiding clients through the entire life span of a development project, from initial planning and strategy, through entitlement, to the defense of approvals on appeal. We are committed to your success.
At Radler White, we are widely recognized for the depth of our technical knowledge and our ability to effectively advocate for clients at local land use hearings, before Oregon’s Land Use Board of Appeals and Court of Appeals, and in public and community meetings that are critical to the success of many projects. Our land use attorneys are repeatedly listed as industry leaders by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America©, and Super Lawyers.
Our project experience includes major league stadiums, condominium towers, office buildings, hotels, mixed-use developments, institutional expansions, public infrastructure, destination resorts, and single-family construction. On behalf of our clients, we have successfully secured some of the most important land use entitlements in the region.
Specialty Areas
Our land use attorneys have significant experience successfully assisting clients with master planning as they seek long-term solutions for expansion options. This work often includes significant legislative or quasi-judicial code changes to facilitate growth objectives. Our clients have included medical and research facilities, universities, soccer stadiums, and large legacy properties such as the Lloyd Center, former ESCO foundry, OMSI, and Zidell Yards.
Our attorneys have broad experience counseling clients through residential, office, and retail mixed-use developments, including both vertical and horizontal mixed-use projects. We assist clients with transferring density, negotiating infrastructure improvements, advocating for preferred design concepts, and natural resource protection measures.
Our attorneys assist clients with high-profile public/private partnerships and negotiate complex development agreements that encompass stadiums, commercial real estate developments, infrastructure improvements, and mixed-use urban redevelopments. Our clients include private developers, cities, state agencies, universities, and development authorities.
Conditional uses are frequently challenged because of neighborhood compatibility concerns such as traffic and parking impacts, noise, and aesthetics. Our attorneys are skilled at guiding clients through the regulatory and public outreach processes that are critical to the approval of conditional uses.
Our attorneys have extensive experience with destination resort entitlement. We assist clients with destination resort overlay zoning for land, compliance with Oregon destination resort statutes, local land use approvals and permits, mitigation obligations, master associations and sub-associations, and timeshare and condominium documents.
Our attorneys have extensive experience assisting clients with the planning and financing of urban and suburban transportation and other critical infrastructure. We help implement transportation financing plans by negotiating development agreements between developers and municipalities that include infrastructure construction. We also help clients negotiate agreements for cost sharing, local improvement districts, system development charge credit agreements, and reimbursement agreements. For example, our lawyers successfully secured a complex approval from two counties for the City of Portland’s $2 billion water filtration facility mandated by the federal government.
Our attorneys have broad experience in urban, suburban, and rural land divisions for residential, commercial, and industrial clients. Our work in this area includes subdivisions, partitions, planned unit developments, condominiums, lot segregation, and middle housing land divisions.
Our attorneys assist clients with multi-jurisdictional, long-range planning efforts, such as Urban Reserve Area (URA) designations and Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) expansions. Our clients include residential developers, employment land developers, and cities.
Our attorneys assist clients with mining operations on private, federal, and native lands in Oregon and Washington. We have represented sand, gravel, and aggregate mine operators, helping them secure land use and regulatory mining approvals. We also help clients negotiate lease agreements, obtain conditional use permits, and negotiate easement agreements for railroad rights-of-way.
Our attorneys served as lead land use and real estate counsel on the successful expansion of Providence Park. Our attorneys represent public and private schools in the expansion and lighting of their athletic fields, including close-in neighborhoods where the fields are directly adjacent to single family residential uses.
Our attorneys represent a broad range of industrial clients, counseling these large and small format users through the unique challenges of siting industrial operations. These challenges include the provision of adequate public services, annexations of land to grow the buildable inventory of industrial land, and impact mitigation plans for properties that are more proximate to residential uses.
