Areas of Practice
Land Use/Growth ManagementLAND USE/GROWTH MANAGEMENT
LAND USE/GROWTH MANAGEMENT
By utilizing the resources of this office, the firm is able to advise and represent clients on regulatory compliance and in so doing to avoid needless litigation, both administrative and judicial. The firm is capable of meeting the needs of clients dealing with local government, development of regional impact (DRI) law, comprehensive planning law, zoning and subdivision law, community development district law, and the myriad related rules and policies dealing with environmental regulation, land use and growth management. The firm's capabilities also encompass the impact of these laws on property rights and business development. Combined with its local and state tax and environmental law experience, the firm's work in land use and growth management is broad and comprehensive.
The firm provides substantial defense counsel and representation regarding community development districts and Special Act Independent Department of Community Affairs (DCA) districts and their use to manage infrastructure concurrency with specialized financing.
The firm is proud to have represented landowners and developers, and home builders (with emphasis on comprehensive planning and developments of regional impact) the following examples of quality development through the comprehensive planning, zoning and permitting process: Bonita Bay, Pelican Bay, The Vineyards, Citygate Commerce Park, Port of the Islands, Audubon Country Club and Grey Oaks.
Young van Assenderp counts among its partners a former Department of Community Affairs Administrator with a graduate degree in planning.
The firm is a specialist in election law and is available to represent private candidates, local governments and associations in matters of concern related to the election of candidates, referendum issues as well as local government issues. Young van Assenderp is proud to have one of its partners as General Counsel to the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, Inc.
The firm has represented clients on matters involving issues of federal and state air emissions control technology and other air quality matters, dredge and fill, construction in navigable waters, use of sovereign submerged lands, coastal construction, public lands acquisition, wetlands creation and mitigation, management of surface waters and other water quality matters, endangered and threatened species, and land contamination.
Through association with professional engineers and consultants, the client can expect the up-to-date technical and legal advice necessary for today's environmental permitting.
Young van Assenderp maintains exceptionally good working relationships with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Florida Department of Community Affairs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, various regional planning councils and water management districts, as well as a host of local government environmental regulators.
The firm has been involved with the major legislative and administrative efforts of State tax reform, including such matters as the unitary method of accounting for corporate income tax, and the various attempts at enacting and implementing a services tax.
Additionally, Young van Assenderp is experienced and successful in handling various tax matters before the Department of Revenue and local governments.
The firm has a substantial practice for public and private clients regarding ad valorem taxes and non-ad valorem assessments.
On the subject of taxation, the firm has professional, cooperative relationships with such ad hoc commissions as the Tax Reform and Budget Commission, as well as with the Florida Department of Revenue, and major county, municipal and other local governments. Substantial legislative and administrative experience has provided detailed familiarity with tax law and policy emanating from committees of the Florida Legislature and related administrative agencies, with their rules and with related administrative and judicial adjudication. One of our partners is the General Counsel to the Florida Tax Collectors Association, Inc.
The firm has also been involved in several moderate and low-income housing developments that have utilized tax exempt bond financing, as well as federal income tax credits allocated by the Florida Housing Finance Agency.
The firm has used its substantive expertise and its capabilities for negotiation, advocacy and persuasion to produce consistent effectiveness in all facets of legislative law and procedures on behalf of the interests of its clients.
The firm is well-known in state and local governmental circles, having appeared many times before legislative committees, and meetings of the Governor and Cabinet, and through frequent direct contact with elected officials in its advocacy for its clients.
Most important, however, is the firm's reputation with governmental administrators and elected officials of presenting credible solutions to difficult problems.
Also, the firm is involved substantially in creation, establishment representation and bond validation for various independent district local governments.
Some of the corporations served by the firm in this capacity include: Florida Engineering Society; Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers (FICE); Florida Tax Collectors, Inc., and Florida Tax Collectors Service Corp., the Florida Tax Collectors Investment Trust; the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Inc. and the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, Inc.