Zoning And Land Use

Lite DePalma Greenberg & Rivas has significant experience in land use matters. The firm has successfully represented clients in applications before local Planning Boards and Zoning Boards of Adjustment, as well as before regional agencies such as County Planning Boards, the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, the Tidelands Resource Council, the New Jersey Departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

LDGR attorneys have also handled numerous land use and redevelopment lawsuits, both at the trial level and on appeal, including in both the Appellate Division and the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The unique perspective that the firm brings to land use litigation has encouraged not only developers, but also municipalities and objectors to development, to retain LDGR.

Significant land use matters that LDGR attorneys have handled include representing developers in precedent-setting cases on variances for "inherently beneficial" uses, successfully objecting to a proposed development that would have adversely affected the area in the Paterson Great Falls Historic District, and representing townships in Somerset, Essex and Gloucester Counties as special land use counsel. The firm has also represented a board of adjustment in Bergen County. LDGR’s familiarity with the economic and other realities of zoning and land use matters, along with its extensive legal experience in such cases and related areas, such as eminent domain and condemnation, allows the firm to provide top-flight legal services to clients in this important area of the law.