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Representative
Clients:
Developers
 Aradi, Inc.
The Firm represents Aradi, Inc., a group of European investors,
with respect to existing development agreements and related land
use authorizations and infrastructure financing for planned use
development of real property in the City of Orange and County of
Orange, as well as pursuing land use authorizations for real property
in the County of Marin.
Award
Homes
Calabasas
Park Homeowners Association
The
Firm represented the Calabasas Park Homeowners Association ("Association")
in an action challenging the approval of a development agreement
for Village Properties, a division of
the Baldwin Company, based on the provision of the development
agreement which allows required open space and the project development
to be acquired through a special tax funded by a Mello-Roos financing
mechanism. The action also challenged whether the condition was
properly assessed under CEQA. The matter was settled in August
of 1992 requiring, among other things, the payment of one and one-half
million dollars to the Association for improvement of specified
recreational facilities.
Cayman Development Company
William D. Ross was retained as an expert witness in litigation
in 1988 and 1989 entitled Cayman Development Company v. Chandler,
et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. C648223 to render an
analysis and opinion concerning the development potential of real
property located in the general law City of Rolling Hills Estates
and the charter City of Torrance. The analysis and opinion involved
the respective City General Plans, zoning regulations and applicable
Municipal Code provisions and compliance with CEQA.
Currey-Riach Company
Published opinion: Las Virgenes Homeowners Federation, Inc., et
al. v. County of Los Angeles, (Currey-Riach Company, real party-in-interest)
(1986) 177 Cal. App. 3d 300, 223 Cal.Rptr. 18, concerning the validity
of land use entitlements and environmental compliance for a 516-acre
mixed use development in the County of Los Angeles.
The Firm has represented this client since 1981, including, for
example, in opposition to the installation of a cellular telephone
transmitter for Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Company - Conditional
Use Permit No. 87-357 (County of Los Angeles) based on the County's
noncompliance with CEQA.
Larwin Homes, Inc.
The Firm represented Larwin Homes, Inc. in an action entitled
William S. Hart Union School District v. County of Los Angeles
(Larwin Homes, Inc., real party-in-interest), Los Angeles Superior
Court Case No. BS000932 concerning the validity of certain land
use entitlements as they relate to the payment of certain school
fees and their relationship to CEQA.
Las Virgenes Properties
The Firm represented Las Virgenes Properties, a California general
partnership, proposing to develop a 494-acre site in the unincorporated
area of the County of Los Angeles, located north and west of the
intersection of Las Virgenes Road and the Ventura Freeway. The
master planned residential community planned 116 single-family
detached residential units, 1,700 multi-family residential units,
a commercial site of 12.8 acres with 60,000 square feet of retail
space and 286.3 acres of dedicated open space. Six entitlements
were necessary to implement the project including a general plan
amendment, a zone change, conditional use permit/oak tree permit
and two tentative subdivision tract maps. After obtaining the entitlements
to use, it was necessary to obtain a Stream Alteration Agreement
from the State Department of Fish and Game and a 404(d) Dredge
and Fill Permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Sand Canyon Estates
The Firm in 1991 represented Sand Canyon Estates, a California
general partnership, with respect to obtaining entitlements to
use and adequate environmental analysis under CEQA within the City
of Santa Clarita for a proposed 70-unit luxury home development.
Santiago
Land Holdings, LP
Shapell
Industries, Inc.
Since 1983, the Firm has represented Shapell Industries, Inc.
and performed analyses regarding CEQA compliance, obtained land
use entitlements from local agencies and litigated their validity
for various projects, including, but not limited to:
Mesa
del Sol: Tentative Tract Map No. 86-0613 and related
rezoning and community plan amendments (City of San Diego);
Rancho
Conejo/MGM Ranch: Specific Plan No. 7 as amended by Amendment
No. 2, Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 4366V, Residential Planned
Development Permit No. 88-292, Oak Tree Permit No. OTV762; Development
Agreement (City of Thousand Oaks); Amendment No. 1 to Development
Agreement, General Plan Amendment No. LU 89-180, Amendment No.
3 to Specific Plan No. 7;
Bouquet
Canyon: Local Plan Amendment No. 86-189; Zone Case No.
86-189, Conditional Use Permit No. 86-189 and 85-628, Tentative
Tract Map Nos. 31158 and 46018 and Development Agreement No. 86-565
(County of Los Angeles);
Country
Village Planned Community: Area Plan No. 87-042, Proposed
Second Amendment, Tentative Tract Map Nos. 9945 and 10292, Development
Agreement No. 86-1 and Zone Change No. 86-9 (County of Orange);
Crest Subdivision: Representation and advice concerning the continued
development of a single-family development in the City of Rancho
Palos Verdes. Matters have included issues on vested rights and
a challenge to the environmental impact report prepared by the
Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles for
the Los Angeles Basin Telecommunications Network Project (SCH
No. 89030814) on property adjacent to the development;
Porter
Ranch: Representation and advice concerning a specific
plan and related entitlements to use and the sufficiency of their
environmental analysis under CEQA Final Supplemental EIR No. 88-0026-(SP)(ZC)(PA)
(SCH No. 88050420) within the City of Los Angeles for a residential
and commercial development on a 1,300-acre site, as well as a development
agreement confirming the referenced entitlements to use;
Gale
Ranch: Representation and advice concerning a proposed development
agreement and specific plan adjacent to the City of San Ramon,
County of Contra Costa.
The Firm also represents Shapell Industries, Inc. with respect
to negotiating, obtaining and, if necessary, modifying Stream Alteration
Agreements with the State Department of Fish and Game and where
applicable, 404(d) Dredge and Fill Permits from the United States
Army Corps of Engineers.
Soldier
Field Partners
Space Bank
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