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Our Sustainable Development Practice Group provides a multidisciplinary approach to advise, support and counsel clients on meeting the needs of the present while preserving the environment for the future. By advising developers, Fortune 500 companies and an array of governmental agencies on how to meet higher standards, we have helped bring together law, technology and industry in numerous projects related to green building practices.
Our attorneys are experts in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards for sustainable green building, CEQA, renewable energy and clean technologies, air quality, climate change and clean water laws. With specialized expertise in the area of complex public-private partnerships, we have also successfully entitled projects involving adaptive reuse of under-performing assets, finding productive uses for contaminated land, mixed use development, military base reuse, green power generation facilities and the rehabilitation of historic properties.
In addition to their legal practices, the members of our Sustainable Development Practice Group demonstrate their expertise in matters related to green building by authoring key chapters of the definitive California real estate law treatise, Miller & Starr California Real Estate 3d. Their contributions include the following chapters: “CEQA,” “Community Redevelopment,” “Liability for Contamination by Hazardous Substances,” “Inverse Condemnation,” and “Eminent Domain.”
As a certified Bay Area Green Business, Miller Starr Regalia is also committed, as a firm, to being an environmentally responsible member of our local and extended communities. Our obligation includes not only complying with - and striving to exceed - environmental regulations, but also encouraging the conservation of energy, water and other natural resources.
Areas of Expertise in Sustainable Development:
• California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• Federal and State Endangered Species Acts
• Clean Water Act
• Water Quality Control Act
• Federal Clean Air Act
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Community Redevelopment Law
• Historical Preservation
• Transit-Oriented/Infill Projects
• Redevelopment, Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation
• California Integrated Waste Management Act Issues
• Toxics Litigation: CERCLA, RCRA, state law and Common Law Claims
• Growth Control Measures
• Development Conditions, Exactions and Development Agreements
• Disposition and Development Agreements