Overview
Stearns Weaver Miller is at the forefront in providing planning and Geographic Information System (GIS) services to meet client needs efficiently. Like our attorneys, our planners are highly experienced professionals who specialize in growth management, comprehensive planning, permitting, due diligence and other aspects of transactions and entitlement procurement. As former local government, regional and state agency administrators, our planners have unique backgrounds that provide inherent advantages for the Firm and our clients in working with regulatory agencies and in managing development projects. Our collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach allows our lawyers and planners to develop cost-effective, creative solutions for our clients. Using the Firm’s state of the art technology, our cutting edge approach integrates legal and policy analysis with advanced technical capabilities, including a secure web-based mapping application that can be customized to fit the exact needs of the client and project team. From site selection through entitlement and post-construction management, our unique team approach assists our clients to evaluate their options fully, make informed decisions, and minimize risk. Whether your project is a greenfield development on thousands of acres or a complex, small-scale urban redevelopment project, our planners provide the supporting policy analysis required to address local government and state planning requirements, while also providing technical tools, such as feasibility models and GIS spatial analysis to achieve optimal results.
- Affordable Housing
- Areas of Critical State Concern
- 163 Comprehensive Plan Compliance Analysis
- 163 Development Order Consistency
- Coastal Analysis (Evaluation Analysis, Shelter Demand Analysis, CHHA/Density Allocations, Sea Level/Adaptation Planning, Coastal Construction Control Line)
- Compliance Analysis/Monitoring
- Comprehensive Plan/Zoning Amendments
- Concurrency Analysis
- Development Order/Permit Applications
- DRI Applications/Administration (Substantial Deviations, NOPC’s, Modification of Vested Rights/Binding Letters, Rescission Letters, Essentially Built Out Determinations, Monitoring/Biennial Reports)
- Eminent Domain Entitlement Analysis
- Environmental Permitting/Supporting Analysis
- Evaluation and Appraisal Reports
- Expert Witness
- GIS (High Quality Map Production, Complex Spatial Analysis, Data Management, Political Redistricting)
- Historic Preservation
- Land Development Regulations/Zoning Codes
- NEPA Compliance/Supporting Analysis
- Outdoor Advertising/Billboard Applications
- Owner’s Representative during Construction
- Parking Studies/Alternatives Analysis
- Population Projections/Land Use Need
- Project Feasibility Analysis/Models
- Project Management
- Public Planning Projects
- Sector Plans/Special Area Plans/Rural Land Stewardship
- Site Selection/Due Diligence
- State Lands/Supporting Analysis
- Transferable Development Rights/Purchasable Development Rights
- Transportation Planning/Impact Analysis/Multimodal Alternatives
- Urban Sprawl Assessment
- Water Supply Plans/Consumptive Use Permitting
Land Development News Update, Publications:
What's Developing | Fall 2024
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|November 2024|Jeffrey A. Collier, Jacob T. Cremer, Felicia Kitzmiller, Erin J. Tilton
Events:
The Live Local Act: The Legislature's Attempt to Kick-Start Large Scale Affordable Housing Projects
Florida Bar, City, County and Local Government Law Section |November 2024|Nicole Neugebauer MacInnes
In the Media:
Tampa developer plans first-of-its-kind project in Wimauma
Tampa Bay Business Journal|September 2024
Firm Announcements:
Amy McPherson Joins Land Development, Zoning & Environmental Group in Tampa as a Shareholder
September 2024
Land Development News Update, Publications:
What's Developing | Summer 2024
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|August 2024|Reggie L. Bouthillier, Fatou Calixte, Jacob T. Cremer, Susan L. Stephens, Erin J. Tilton, Felicia Kitzmiller
Publications:
Florida Attorney General’s Office Issues Informal Opinion Clarifying Zoning Districts that Qualify for Development under the Live Local Act
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|August 2024|Jacob T. Cremer, Nicole Neugebauer MacInnes, Brian J. McDonough
Firm Announcements:
Shareholder Patrice Boyes Joins Land Development, Zoning & Environmental Group in Tampa
August 2024
Events:
Florida Chamber 38th Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School
July 2024