Trenam Law’s Land Use and Government attorneys focus their combined resources on the interrelated fields of governmental law and real estate development. We understand today’s regulatory issues and take an active role in the shaping of development trends in Tampa, St. Petersburg, the surrounding Tampa Bay area, and throughout Florida. We appear before reviewing bodies at the federal, state, and local levels, bringing essential knowledge about procedures, personalities, and inclinations.
Our Land Use and Government Law attorneys work closely with lawyers in our Construction, Real Estate and Lending Transactions, Eminent Domain and Property Rights Litigation groups, and the firm’s Hospitality Team to provide multiple legal services for our clients based on their needs. We also frequently work on multi-disciplinary teams with architects, land use planners, engineers, and business professionals to create successful strategies for clients on complex development projects.
Our lawyers handle a full range of complex issues facing property owners, developers, and government entities, including the following:
- Adaptive reuse
- Affordable housing
- Alcohol permitting
- Code enforcement issues
- Coastal development and permitting
- Comprehensive plan amendments
- Development agreements
- Developments of Regional Impact (DRI’s)
- Due diligence for transactions and financing
- Governmental advocacy
- “Grandfathered” status for uses and structures
- Land use and development litigation
- Historic designation issues
- Mixed-use projects
- Permits and approvals for development
- Public-private partnerships
- Privately initiated local code changes
- Procurement and bid protests
- Rezonings
- Religious rights and land use
- Regulation and ordinance drafting
- Takings, property rights, and condemnations
- Transit-oriented development
- Variances
