Practice Areas & Industries: Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Land Use practice group at Gunster Yoakley provides comprehensive legal counsel to clients navigating through the broad range of issues that arise out of a complicated and always changing matrix of local, state and federal land use and environmental regulations. Florida has an elaborate permitting system which often requires local, regional and state approvals before development permits can be issued. Overlaying the state system is the complex federal regulatory scheme. Gunster Yoakley's Land Use attorneys have extensive backgrounds in representation before government agencies and in judicial and administrative litigation. Our attorneys have represented various business developers, agricultural interests, landowners and individuals in federal and state courts and administrative arenas. We focus on each client's individual needs to meet development goals or to identify, define and prevent current and future liability.

Services Available

• Brownfields Redevelopment
• Concurrency Impact
• Community Development Districts
• Comprehensive Planning
• Developments of Regional Impact
• Inverse Condemnation/Regulatory Takings
• Landmark/Historical Preservation Designation
• Local Government Approvals and Permits
• Marinas and Coastal Construction
• Municipal Service Taxing Units
• Planned Unit Developments
• Power Plant, Electric Transmission Line and Natural Gas
• Pipeline Siting
• State Land Leases
• Urban Development
• Variances, Rezonings and Special Exceptions

Representative Matters

• More than two decades of counsel to Arvida during development of Weston, one of the country's most successful planned communities. The scope of representation includes obtaining the original development order, rezoning and land use plan amendments, establishing local government controls and forming/administering the developer's numerous entities.
• Created the current Planned Urban Development (PUD) plan for a 140 acre project located on the island of Palm Beach. Obtained approvals for 580 residential units, a hotel, golf course, club program, restaurants and retail. Handled condominium documents, unit sales agreements, club program documents and ocean coastal issues relating to approximately one mile of oceanfront property.

Clients:
Arvida/JMB Partners, AutoNation, Inc., Bank of America, N.A., Bankrate, Inc., Boca Raton Resort and Club, Capital City Bank Group, Inc., Chiquita International, Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., Flagler Development Corporation, Florida East Coast Industries, Inc., FTD, Inc., GE Capital, Gill Hotels Company, Inc., Innkeepers Hospitality, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Jupiter Island Club, Lee Munder Capital Group, Levenger Company, Lykes Bros., Inc., Murray Goodman Company, Park Avenue BBQ Restaurants, Pegasus Corporation of America, Pioneer Corporation, Pratt & Whitney, Ranger Construction Industries, Inc., Republic Services, Inc., Rybovich Spencer, SBA Communications Corporation, Seven Springs Golf Club, Smiths Industries PLC, Sonesta Hotels & Resorts, The St. Joe Company, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Teva Pharmaceutical, Trump International Golf Club, Trump National Golf Club, U.S. Sugar Corporation, U.S. Trust Company, United Technologies Corporation, WCI Communities, Inc.