Land Use

Our land use and zoning lawyers are devoted to helping clients with land use development, including due diligence, permitting entitlements, and appeals. They have significant experience in helping both permitting authorities and private parties through all aspects of the land use and development process.

Land Use

Inslee Best provides private and public clients with a full range of land use, zoning, and development services. We also have all of the real estate and construction law services needed to assemble a complete team so that we can provide each client with the full range of value-added land use and development, real estate, and construction legal services. 

We help our private clients build projects by assisting with entitlements, working with permit authorities and elected officials, negotiating and drafting development agreements, and appealing project decisions as needed. We assist our public clients in drafting land use codes and comprehensive plans, analyzing permit applications, navigating complex procedures, application of local, state, and federal law to ensure decisions are well-grounded and defensible, code enforcement, condemnation, SEPA, development agreements, and administrative appeals. We have significant experience in the following areas:

  • Development entitlement work of all types
  • Project guidance
  • SEPA and SEPA Appeals
  • Government entities
  • Administrative Hearings and Appeals
  • Condemnation
  • Code Enforcement
  • Development Agreements
  • Comprehensive Plan Development and Amendment
  • Land Use Petition Act Appeals
  • Regulatory Monitoring