Mixed Use Development: Overcoming Legal Challenges, Leveraging New Opportunities
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
Outline
- Mixed-use development overview
- Definition of mixed-use development
- Examples of successful mixed-use projects
- Learning from success/designing good mixed-use projects
- Integration of uses (horizontally and vertically)
- Connections to adjacent development
- Other major urban design considerations (pedestrian access, streetscape and public realm, off-street parking, placemaking)
- Obtaining project entitlements
- Common local zoning and subdivision issues
- Other regulatory impediments to mixed use (highway access, traffic engineering, fire/safety codes)
- Gaining public acceptance; overcoming and managing potential opposition
- Strategies for partnering with local and state governments (provision of infrastructure, site assembly, and finance; LEED-ND certification)
- Common interest community issues
- Balancing commercial and residential interests
- Civic uses
- Design and architectural control
- Financing considerations
- Overview of factors in financing mixed use development
- Private financing structures
- Public-private financing
- Issues to monitor carefully
Benefits
The panel reviewed these and other key questions:
- What legal issues must be considered when designing mixed-use development projects?
- What are the common zoning and subdivision issues that developers and builders encounter when seeking project entitlements?
- What are some effective strategies for partnering with local and state governments to build mixed-use projects?
Faculty
Brian W. Blaesser
Partner
Robinson & Cole
He heads the Land Use and Development Group in the Boston office, representing property owners, investors and... | Read More
He heads the Land Use and Development Group in the Boston office, representing property owners, investors and developers in commercial real estate development and litigation.
CloseMatthew J. Lawlor
Robinson & Cole
He represents developers, landowners, commercial landlords and tenants in matters involving mixed-use development;... | Read More
He represents developers, landowners, commercial landlords and tenants in matters involving mixed-use development; commercial real estate development and leasing; and land use law.
CloseDoris S. Goldstein
Attorney
Doris S Goldstein
She represents developers of new urbanist communities, including architectural standards, commercial property sales and... | Read More
She represents developers of new urbanist communities, including architectural standards, commercial property sales and the formation of condominiums and townhouses in mixed-use buildings. She has lectured at seminars presented by the American Bar Association, Urban Land Institute and the Congress for the New Urbanism.
CloseGilbert A. Rosenthal
FAIA, LEED® AP, Principal
Wallace Roberts & Todd
He is a partner with an architecture, landscape architecture, and planning firm. He focuses on environmentally... | Read More
He is a partner with an architecture, landscape architecture, and planning firm. He focuses on environmentally sustainable urban revitalization for national and international clients.
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