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)
- 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
- Owner’s Representative during Construction
- 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
- State Lands/Supporting Analysis
- Transferable Development Rights/Purchasable Development Rights
- Transportation Planning/Impact Analysis/Multimodal Alternatives
- Urban Sprawl Assessment
- Water Supply Plans/Consumptive Use Permitting
In the Media:
St. Pete plaza could become 304-unit housing development
St. Pete Catalyst|May 2024
In the Media:
TradeWinds Resort gets green light to expand
Spectrum News|April 2024
Land Development News Update, Publications:
Federal Court Says “No” to A Stay: Florida’s CWA Section 404 Permitting Program Remains Wholly Vacated
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|April 2024|Felicia Kitzmiller, Amelia A. Savage, Susan L. Stephens
Publications:
Legislative Tax Package includes Live Local Property Tax Exemption Opt-out Provisions for Taxing Authorities
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|April 2024|Jacob T. Cremer, Brian J. McDonough, Nicole Neugebauer MacInnes, Marco T. Paredes, Jr., Robert J. Walters
Events:
A Live Local Act Panel Discussion
CREW Tampa Bay |April 2024|Nicole Neugebauer MacInnes
Government Affairs News Update, Land Development News Update, Publications:
FDACS Promulgates New Rules Addressing Agricultural Land Owned by a Foreign Principal
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|March 2024|Jacob T. Cremer, Samantha R. Decker, Marco T. Paredes, Jr., Susan L. Stephens, Robert J. Walters
Events:
WEBINAR: SB 328 - The 2024 Live Local Act
Stearns Weaver Miller Webinar |March 2024|Jacob T. Cremer, Brian J. McDonough, Nicole Neugebauer MacInnes, Marco T. Paredes, Jr., Robert J. Walters
Publications:
Florida Senate and House of Representatives Pass Senate Bill 328 Amending the 2023 Live Local Act
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|March 2024|Jacob T. Cremer, Brian J. McDonough, Nicole Neugebauer MacInnes, Marco T. Paredes, Jr.