Practical Guide to Zoning and Land Use Law in New Jersey
Credits Available
| Credit | Status | Total | Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York CLE |
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7 Total | 03-04-2027 |
| Pennsylvania CLE |
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6 Total | 03-04-2026 |
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Overview
Navigate the Zoning Process With an In-Depth Understanding of Zoning Regulations
Are you current on your knowledge of zoning laws? Can you confidently solve potential problems and ensure smooth zoning processes? Join us at this online seminar where you'll learn to facilitate positive outcomes by understanding key components of the approval process, procedures for challenging a zoning decision, as well as requirements for administrative appeals. Recognize constitutional limitations on zoning actions to ensure your actions are within the bounds of the law. Register today!
- Know the necessary steps - on a local, regional, and state level - for obtaining a permit.
- Review the limits on governmental power so you know how takings and exactions must be handled.
- Fulfill your role in the process when a zoning case is litigated or when a decision is appealed.
- Stay in the loop in your community with a knowledge of local zoning issues, including economic development and smart growth.
- Represent your clients with confidence with an in-depth understanding of key zoning concepts.
- Understand the constitutional limitations on zoning so you can handle questions of eminent domain with ease.
- Know the steps you need to take to fight for your client during an appeal of an administrative zoning decision.
- Take your zoning knowledge to the next level with an in-depth understanding of the process for adopting and amending the zoning ordinances and map.
Abbreviated Agenda
- Current Case Law and Legislative Update
- Roadmap for Navigating the Approval Process
- Constitutional Limitations on Zoning Actions
- Challenging or Appealing an Administrative Zoning Decision
- Adoption and Amendment of Zoning Ordinance and Map
- Dealing with Special Zoning Issues
- Ethics in Zoning and Land Use Law
Credit Details
Credits Available
| Credit | Status | Total | Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York CLE |
|
7 Total | 03-04-2027 |
| Pennsylvania CLE |
|
6 Total | 03-04-2026 |
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Agenda
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Current Case Law and Legislative Update
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Roadmap for Navigating the Approval Process
- Authority for Land Use Decisions
- Local, Regional, and State Approvals
- Comprehensive Plan
- Regional Impact
- Subdivisions
- Rezonings: Zoning Changes or Amendments
- Variances, Special Uses, and Conditional Uses
- The Permitting Process
- State Building Code
- Nonconforming Uses
- Permits and Certificates
- Environmental Review
- Vested Rights
- Estoppel
- Moratoria
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Constitutional Limitations on Zoning Actions
- Zoning as a Form of Governmental Power
- Takings and Exactions
- Due Process
- Equal Protection
- Property Rights and Police Power
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Challenging or Appealing an Administrative Zoning Decision
- Procedural Requirements
- Standing Issues
- Trial of an Administrative Appeal
- Strategies
- Local Government Perspective
- Judicial Review of Local Decision
- Litigating a Zoning Case
- Declaratory Action
- Trial Strategies
- Use of Experts
- Local Government Perspective
- Mandamus, Prohibition, and Injunction
- Federal Pre-emption
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Adoption and Amendment of Zoning Ordinance and Map
- Source of Zoning Authority
- Zoning Procedures Law
- Notice Issues
- Hearing Issues
- Standards
- Local Issues and Impact Fees
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Dealing with Special Zoning Issues
- Exclusionary Zoning
- Contract Zoning and Conditional Zoning
- Local Economic Development
- Smart Growth
- The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
- Historic Preservation and Overlay District Zoning
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Ethics in Zoning and Land Use Law
- Administrative Land Use Matters
- Legislative Land Use Matters
- Complying With the Code of Professional Responsibility
- Identifying and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
- From the Standpoint of the Government Lawyer
- Ex Parte Contacts With Decision Makers
Who Should Attend
This basic-to-intermediate level online seminar will assist the following in understanding and working with zoning and land use regulations:
- Attorneys
- City and urban planners
- Developers
- Engineers
- Architects
- Local zoning and land use officials
- Appraisers
- Surveyors
Speakers
Speaker bio
Rosemary Stone-Dougherty
is a partner at A.Y. Strauss LLC. She has vast experience in the areas of land use development, zoning and planning law, along with all aspects of both complex commercial and residential real estate transactions. Ms. Stone-Dougherty earned her B.A. degree from Seton Hall University, her M.B.A. degree from W.P. Stillman School of Business-Seton Hall University and her J.D. degree from Seton Hall Law. She is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, United States District Court for New Jersey, Florida and New Jersey.
Speaker bio
Bridget A. Sykes
is a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP. She represents owners, developers and lenders in complex real estate matters, with a particular focus on commercial, mixed-use and multifamily residential development and redevelopment projects, and the representation of institutional and private lenders in financing transactions. Ms. Sykes counsels clients on the acquisition, sale and lease of commercial and multifamily residential real estate. Owners and developers rely on her to secure financing, navigate state and local development reviews and obtain zoning, environmental and other land development permits and approvals for a variety of commercial and residential projects. Ms. Sykes also assists clients in identifying and obtaining tax incentives in connection with such projects. She has a range of experience in handling zoning and other real estate related litigation matters. Ms. Sykes also advises private and institutional lenders in a broad range of financing transactions for multifamily and commercial property in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She earned her B.S. degree from Rutgers University School of Business and her J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School. Ms. Sykes is a member of the Atlantic County Bar Association, and admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Speaker bio
Alan P. Fox
is an attorney with Capehart & Scatchard, P.A. He is chair of Capehart Scatchard's Alternative Energy Group, representing clients in various sectors, including shopping centers, public and private schools, retail, office buildings, warehouses, farming, and residential properties. Mr. Fox has experience handling transactions related to photovoltaic solar powered electricity production systems including PPA, obtaining permits and approvals for utility scale projects in southern New Jersey, and solar systems for owners of industrial and commercial properties. Additionally, he serves as co-chair of the firm's real estate and land use group, and is a shareholder in its commercial litigation, and business and tax groups. Mr. Fox's 35+ years of experience in these areas includes presenting land use applications before planning/zoning boards, litigating zoning matters at the trial and appellate levels, serving as solicitor to the Riverside Township Planning and Zoning Boards for eight years, protecting creditors' rights, and performing as outside general counsel for various private companies with local, regional and national needs. He earned his B.A. degree from Rutgers College and his J.D. degree from California Western School of Law. Mr. Fox is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the districts of New Jersey, and Western and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Speaker bio
Anne L. H. Studholme
started her career at Hill Wallack and has been Of Counsel to Post Polak, PA, since 2014. A litigator with 30 years of experience in trial and appellate courts at all levels, state and federal, her practice emphasizes complex litigation: subdivisions and site plans, redevelopment, eminent domain, COAH/Mt. Laurel, disability rights, Fair Housing Act matters, RLUIPA (religious land use cases), class actions, environmental and commercial disputes, and civil RICO cases. Her main focus is inclusionary housing development. A Real-Estate-NJ Top Real Estate Attorney, Ms. Studholme has served as chairman of the Land Use Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and on the Advisory Committee of the Urban Land Institute of Northern New Jersey. In 2010, as a solo practitioner, she represented a nationwide consortium of disability-rights organizations as amici curiae in an appellate case of first impression, Betancourt v. Trinitas Hospital. Ms. Studholme earned an A.B. degree from Princeton University, her J.D. degree from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was a Visiting Scholar at Duke University, in Constitutional Law.
Speaker bio
Amanda R. Moscillo
is an attorney at Fox Rothschild LLP. She is a member of the firms real estate department. Ms. Moscillo earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Rutgers University.
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