Local Knowledge | Regional Platform
We make it our business to know our communities. Our land use attorneys thrive at the intersection of local commerce, politics and civic life, leveraging local knowledge, experience and relationships to position our clients’ projects for success.
Williams Mullen’s land use team provides comprehensive guidance in all manner of land use and zoning matters, including preparing, submitting, negotiating, and defending our client’s applications for project entitlements before local government staff, planning commissions, elected bodies, and community stakeholders.
“Finding Yes” For Your Project
We assist clients with a broad array of land use and zoning needs, which include:
What Makes Us Stand Out
Our Reach – It’s in the Numbers
Williams Mullen’s land use practice comprises seasoned attorneys strategically positioned in offices throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, from the Blue Ridge to the Potomac to the Oceanfront, and the State of North Carolina, based in Raleigh. Our formidable team of attorneys has led land use and zoning projects in 93 cities and counties throughout Virginia and over 90 counties in North Carolina.
More than a Useful Rolodex – Trusted Leaders in Land Use & Development
As a regional, full-service law firm, our attorneys proudly invest in the civic and political life of the places where we live, work and play. Our relationships attest to a foundation of trust from stakeholders in all corners of our communities, reflecting our team’s commitment to fostering quality investment in both the built environment and the human capital that brings those communities to life and sustains them.
Our team’s varied and well-honed skills evince the unique demands of this dynamic practice, such as navigating community opposition with targeted education and open communication, developing strategies for mitigating impacts of projects on environmental and historic resources, and building consensus based on our nuanced understanding of the shared values of our communities.
We take pride in our attorneys’ frequent awards and recognition as thought leaders on the legal, policy and political aspects of land development. Our team serves as trusted counselors to associations representing a broad sector of the housing development industry. These roles position us at the forefront of policymaking discussions concerning, for example, affordable housing tools, economic development incentives, cash proffers (i.e. monetary exactions), and a multitude of other key state and local government policies and regulations pertaining to land development.
Extensive Knowledge in Key Industries
While our team regularly assists in land use aspects of commercial real estate transactions in a diverse breadth of industry sectors, Williams Mullen commands a profound depth of experience and knowledge of certain industries. Our land use practitioners apply their understanding of and familiarity with the business realities of these sectors to maximize their effectiveness as advocates for typically complex and controversial land use cases. They include: