Land-Use and Development
Section Chair: Lynn David Bird
Caplan and Earnest LLC provides a full range of legal services for routine and complex land-use and urban development approvals, transactions and issues. As a Boulder-based law firm, Caplan and Earnest offers years of expertise and experience with Colorado land-use laws. The scope of our services include:
- complex annexation agreements
- development agreements and vested rights agreements
- historic preservation projects
- initiative and referendum elections
- large-scale and long-term planned developments
- public financing and subsidy arrangements
- public-private partnerships and transactions
- urban renewal projects
Our land-use team represents landowners and developers when they appear before planning commissions and municipal boards on applications for annexation, rezoning, planned developments and subdivision approvals. In addition, the firm has significant experience preparing and enforcing covenants for property owners' associations, residential and commercial condominiums and all types of construction projects.
Members of our land-use team have long-standing relationships with regional officials, planning commissions, appraisers, Realtors®, and builders. These relationships ensure prompt, expedited and thorough representation of your legal matters.
Our land-use practice focuses on Colorado businesses with projects from small jurisdictions to major developments. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, state and local companies, landowners, homeowners' associations, developers, brokers, title companies, banks and financial institutions, as well as individuals.
Contact our land-use lawyers for proven expertise in the following areas:
- Administrative hearings
- Commercial leasing
- Conservation easements
- Construction law
- Declarations of covenants, conditions and restrictions
- Easements, licenses and rights of way
- Eminent domain
- Lease and purchase agreements
- Planning, zoning and annexation
- Real estate development
- Subdivisions