Hill Wallack LLP has one of the premier land use practices in New Jersey. Our Land Use Team provides
comprehensive solutions to issues arising in every area of law affecting the land development permitting
process at the local, county, state and federal levels.
Our Land Use Team represents private and public sector clients in all facets of land development. Our clients
include include some of the nation’s leading homebuilders, developers, redevelopers, office and commercial
developers, state and local redevelopment authorities, public transportation authorities, municipalities
and local boards, and other public and private entities.
Clients count on Hill Wallack LLP’s Land Use Team to create solutions for many of the toughest challenges they
face. Our extensive experience enables us to present a number of pragmatic options to our clients. Where we can,
we work to avoid litigation. But when litigation is our clients’ only—or best—alternative, we provide aggressive,
cost-effective advocacy, at the trial court and appellate levels, and before our state courts and the federal
courts.
Representative Matters
- We serve as Land Use Counsel to the New Jersey Builders Association, representing the NJBA in a variety of concerns to the industry, including legislative, regulatory and litigation matters.
- We have represented clients in nearly every landmark land use case issued by our courts in New Jersey over the last few decades, including the Mount Laurel opinions striking down exclusionary zoning and regulations of the Council on Affordable Housing, redevelopment-related cases such as Gallenthin v. Paulsboro, cases evaluating the legality of development fees and other exactions, the Residential Site Improvement Standards, and the like.
- Our attorneys are known for their successful pursuit of planning board approvals and development permits allowing construction of some of the largest developments in the State of New Jersey and, where required, litigation to obtain permits and approvals that have been wrongfully denied by the government.
- We have represented developers and others in redevelopment projects of various varieties and sizes. Our work has included the preparation, analysis and critique of "area in need of redevelopment" designations, and redevelopment plans, studies and agreements.
- Our attorneys represent clients before the state agencies involved with the land development process, including the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Transportation, and the Council on Affordable Housing.
- We advise clients on a variety of "green building" issues, including compliance with green building requirements.
Breadth and Depth
Our Land Use Team attorneys collectively bring decades of experience to the table, in areas ranging from the regulatory
analysis of land at the outset, to the acquisition of all necessary permits and approvals, along with the litigation that
often becomes necessary in today’s anti-growth atmosphere. The Land Use Team includes former state officials and other
recognized leaders in land use law, including two former chairs of the Land Use Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar
Association, along with three other attorneys who have served on its Board of Directors.
The Land Use Team is the legacy of firm founder Henry Hill, who pioneered an area of the law affecting
development throughout much of New Jersey for more than a quarter of a century. Over the years, the Hill
Wallack LLP Land Use Team has built a reputation for uncommon devotion to the land use causes of our clients.
Our Land Use Team operates within a diversified law firm that is well-equipped to provide clients
with comprehensive, cross-disciplinary solutions to achieve client objectives most efficiently.
We work with colleagues knowledgeable in areas that include real estate financing and transactions,
community association law, insurance coverage, bankruptcy & workouts and other areas of interest to
those with land use concerns
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