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A land-use attorney and a retired Google manager won appointments this week to Palo Alto's influential Planning and Transportation Commission. Giselle Roohparvar, an attorney with the firm Miller Starr Regalia, easily won appointment to the commission, earning support from eight of the nine City Council members (only Councilman Greg Tanaka opted to vote for other candidates). 

Miller Starr Regalia (MSR), a preeminent California real estate law firm for more than 50 years, announced today that Travis A. Brooks is joining the firm’s Walnut Creek office as an associate in the firm’s land use department. 

Miller Starr Regalia Shareholder Arthur Coon to speak at CLE International’s 14th Annual CEQA Conference! 

Please join the Professional Women In Building (PWB) of the BIA Bay Area for their next Lean In Circle. Moderator, Nadia Costa, will be leading a workshop on centered leadership and the idea of finding energy for a better work-life balance. 

On June 5, 2018, San Francisco voters passed Proposition C, which imposes a new gross receipts tax of 1 percent on revenues a business receives from leasing warehouse space in San Francisco and 3.5 percent on revenues a business receives from leasing certain qualifying commercial spaces in San Francisco. Proposition C becomes operative on January 1, 2019. The proceeds of these taxes will fund quality early care and education for young children and other public purposes.

Miller Starr Regalia (MSR), a preeminent California real estate law firm for more than 50 years, is pleased to announce that Arthur F. Coon, co-chair of the firm's Land Use Practice Group and chair of its Appellate Practice Group, has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America 2019© and has been honored as the Best Lawyers’ 2019 Oakland Land Use and Zoning Law “Lawyer of the Year”.