Nader Nader specializes in handling compliance and permitting issues that can arise.

The lawyers at Nader Nader have years of experience negotiating with officials, local governments, city councils zoning boards and consistently produce results.

Nader Nader specializes in projects that include the development of residential establishments, office buildings, theaters, hotels shopping centers apartment complexes as well as wide range of differing industrial projects including energy plants and manufacturing facilities.

Land Use Approval

Our goal at Nader Nader law is to help our clients obtain necessary permits and entitlements while simultaneously offering our clients an effective and simple campaign to develop public support and maintain a strong public image.

The range of compliance approvals that our lawyers work with:

  •  Development incentives
  •  Environmental Impact Reports (EIR)
  •  Historic preservation
  •  Project permits and entitlements
  •  Redevelopment and adaptive reuse approvals
  •  Takings, eminent domain, and inverse condemnation
  •  The California Environmental Quality and National Environmental Policy Acts
  •  Variances and conditional use permits
  •  Zoning and planning

Land Use Planning

The lawyers at Nader Nader have established professional relationships with local government officials and work closely with them to ensure that land utilized in real estate and development projects have the appropriate zoning and permits.

We take every necessary step in analyzing local development regulation policies and restrictions to ensure that they do not conflict with the proposed project or the project in question. Through these efforts, the lawyers at Nader Nader to negotiate with government officials to obtain easements, licenses and other development approval that may be needed to move forward with the project. Though these efforts,

Land Use Disputes

Land use disputes usually involve situations that are very straightforward and include but are not limited to

  • Development Agreements
  • Impact Fees
  • Municipal Annexation
  • Redevelopment Law
  • Subdivision Regulation

In cases involving a land use dispute, Nader Nader has proven time and time again that our experience with land use regulations allows our lawyers to approach zoning appeals, and approach political authorities with a smart strategically calculated plan to demonstrate the change of use prerequisites needed for rezoning.

When cases involve more complex controversies, Nader Nader utilizes extensive trial experience in the field to litigate many land disputes including

  • Condemnation and Inverse Condemnation
  • Hearings for the adequacy of zoning procedures
  • Restrictions on development of environmentally sensitive lands
  • State Land Acquisitions

Environmental Regulation

The lawyers at Nader Nader utilize comprehensive strategies to handle a variety of different environmental hurdles that apply to proposed projects during initial stages of development. Our knowledge base covers projects involving wetland permitting as well as inspection and compliance reviews. We also handle Clean air and Clean Water Act permits and compliance.

Environmental approvals have proven themselves to be a particularly complex hurdle for a large majority of projects we have represented in the past. We take extra time to carefully review and prepare documentation to give our projects the best chance to pass the regulations of the California Environmental Protection Agency and guidelines put in place by many other agencies that include but are not limited to:

  • California Air Resources Board
  • California Coastal Commission
  • California Department of Fish & Wildlife
  • California Energy Commission
  • California Office of Historic Preservation
  • California Regional Water Quality Control Boards
  • California Resources Agency
  • California State Lands Commission
  • California State Mining and Geology Board
  • California State Water Resources Control Board
  • Department of Toxic Substances Control
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • Integrated Waste Management Board
  • Public Utilities Commission
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • Various air quality management districts