David focuses his practice on land use, zoning, and municipal entitlement matters arising in the acquisition, development, redevelopment, sale, and operation of commercial real estate.
Zoning and land-use issues are often where real estate deals succeed or fail—particularly where timing, municipal process, political dynamics, and entitlement risk intersect with acquisition, financing, leasing, and development execution. David advises clients on zoning, land use, and permit issues during acquisition and pre-development due diligence and regularly handles annexations, zoning map and text amendments, planned developments, special use permits, subdivisions, site plan approvals, adaptive reuse and historic preservation matters, and related municipal approvals. He works with clients to develop legal and practical strategies for securing favorable entitlements and regularly leads presentations and handles contested hearings before city councils, plan commissions, zoning boards, historic preservation commissions, housing commissions, and community groups.
David represents developers, property owners, landlords, tenants, nonprofit organizations, and other stakeholders across a broad range of asset types, including industrial outdoor storage and truck parking facilities, warehouses, self-storage, retail, office, multifamily and single-family residential developments, gas station convenience stores, and special-purpose facilities. His experience includes large-scale industrial and logistics projects, redevelopment matters, affordable and inclusionary housing issues, nonconforming-use matters, and complex zoning and permit strategies for challenging sites and uses.
David brings more than 25 years of experience in land use, zoning, and real estate matters, including prior practice at national and regional law firms working on behalf of both private-sector and municipal clients.