Donald R. Daines

		Practice Areas:	Land Use Litigation Land Use Application
		Areas of Emphasis:	Land Use Litigation Federal Fair Housing & related issues
		Bar Admission:	New Jersey, New York Pennsylvania, Indiana, Texas U.S. Supreme Court
		Education:	Indiana University Indiana University School of Law

Donald R. Daines is a partner of Hill Wallack LLP. He is a member of the Land Use Division which encompasses the Land Use Litigation and Land Use & Environmental Applications Practice Groups. He concentrates his practice in litigation before the State and Federal Courts related to complex land use and development matters including the procurement or enforcement of permits and/or approvals necessary for development. His cases involve a myriad of issues related to land development including zoning; environmental; infrastructure; federal fair housing; forcing municipalities to create realistic affordable housing opportunities and related civil rights issues. He routinely appears before Planning Boards and Zoning Boards in connection with large scale developments, working intimately with the developer and the numerous professionals during the pre-application phase to ‘front load’ the application to maximize development potential within the regulatory framework and site constraints.

A graduate of Indiana University, he later obtained his Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Indiana University Graduate School of Business and his law degree from Indiana University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Texas as well as the United States Supreme Court and various Federal Courts. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Business Law at Valparaiso University School of Business.

He was Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel to K. Hovnanian Companies of New Jersey after which he established the real estate development division for Rivervale Realty, a subsidiary of United Water Resources. He has spent his entire life working in the construction, land development and real estate industry overseeing and directing all legal efforts pertaining to land acquisitions, site investigation, contract negotiation, project design including environmental issues and the procurement of governmental approvals and permits at the local, county, state and federal level.

He is on the Board of Directors of the Land Use Law Section for the New Jersey Bar Association and has been a featured speaker at numerous seminars and panels related to land use law, development issues and how to obtain government approvals from various boards and agencies.

He is author of "Applying Construction Management Principles to the Land Use Governmental Approval Process", New Jersey Bar Association Land Use Law Section Newsletter, October, 1990 addressing the use of critical path and PERT chart analysis software to manage the procurement of government permits and approvals and coordinate the numerous outside experts and consultants involved in obtaining the many permits and approvals required. While serving on various task forces for the Council on Affordable Housing [COAH], he designed and created an automated spreadsheet which he gave to and was used by COAH for calculating the maximum sales price of Affordable Housing Units throughout the state. Many of the documents prepared by Mr. Daines regarding the restrictions of Affordable Housing Units were adopted as part of the administrative regulations governing Affordable Housing Units in New Jersey.