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)
- State Lands/Supporting Analysis
- 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
- 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
- Transferable Development Rights/Purchasable Development Rights
- Transportation Planning/Impact Analysis/Multimodal Alternatives
- Urban Sprawl Assessment
- Water Supply Plans/Consumptive Use Permitting
- Owner’s Representative during Construction
Events:
Planning for Sea Level Rise and the Peril of Flood from the Local, Regional, and State Perspective
American Planning Association Florida Annual Conference |September 2019|Kenneth B. Metcalf, AICP
Events:
Creating and Applying Site Specific Standards: The Nuts and Bolts of Site Plans and Plats and How the Regulations are Applied to Land and Buildings
Land Use Law: How-To Conference |August 2019|Abbye Feeley
Firm Announcements:
Marco Paredes Joins Stearns Weaver Miller as Director of Governmental Affairs
August 2019
Events:
33rd Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School
Florida Environmental Network |July 2019
Publications, Recent News Updates:
Friday Deadline for Hillsborough County's Final Impact Fee Buyback Solicitation
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|July 2019|S. Elise Batsel, Jacob T. Cremer, Vin Marchetti, David M. Smith, Ronald L. Weaver
Publications, Recent News Updates:
Important Land Development and Environmental Issues Following Florida's 2019 Legislative Session
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|July 2019|S. Elise Batsel, Reggie L. Bouthillier, Jeffrey A. Collier, Jacob T. Cremer, Vin Marchetti, Kenneth B. Metcalf, AICP, F. Joseph Ullo, Jr.
Publications, Recent News Updates:
What's Developing | Summer 2019
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|July 2019|S. Elise Batsel, Reggie L. Bouthillier, Jeffrey A. Collier, Jacob T. Cremer
Publications, Recent News Updates:
Opportunities Ahead as Florida Prepares for Three New Tollways
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|May 2019|Reggie L. Bouthillier, Jeffrey A. Collier, Jacob T. Cremer, Abbye Feeley, Kenneth B. Metcalf, AICP, F. Joseph Ullo, Jr.