We represent both local governments and private landowners in a variety of land use and zoning issues.

Experience Highlights

• Regularly assist local governments in drafting zoning ordinances, subdivision ordinances and other land use regulations
• Advise local government zoning departments and officers in zoning determinations and enforcing local ordinances, and assist their councils and boards in conducting zoning hearings and presiding over zoning appeals
• Significant experience in defending local governments' zoning, annexation and other land use decisions against legal challenges, both before local boards and at the trial and appellate court levels
• Routinely represent landowners, developers and other private clients in obtaining zoning and other development permits, both through lobbying and through representing them in formal proceedings before government councils and zoning boards
• Assist private clients in challenging adverse zoning and other land use determinations before local boards and in the trial and appellate courts

Experience

• Assisted local government client in revising zoning and land use ordinances
• Coordinated the permitting of a buildout in the Carolinas by a major wireless telecommunications company
• Successfully defended challenges to municipal clients' annexations in both trial and appellate courts
• Successfully defended legal challenges to issuance of zoning permits
• Coordinated the permitting of a major manufacturing facility in Vance County, North Carolina
• Represented a national homebuilder in permitting developments throughout the Southeast

News

• Henry Campen Named 2013 Person of the Year by NCSU Poole College
  April 18, 2013
• Jamie Schwedler Named to Urban Land Institute’s Steering Committee
  April 17, 2013
• Henry Campen Named Board Chair of SECWC
  April 15, 2013
• Bruce Thompson Named Top Political Influencer in NC
  January 7, 2013
• Bruce Thompson Interviewed by CBJ on New Political Alignment in Raleigh
  CBJ Sound Off: How will the new political alignment in Raleigh affect business law and regulation?
  January 4, 2013
• U.S. News Media Group Names Parker Poe Top-Tier Law Firm for 2013
  November 1, 2012
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Get to Know Your Real Estate – Focus on Due Diligence Fundamentals in Tough Times
  November 30, 2011
• U.S. News & World Report Names Parker Poe Top-Tier Law Firm for 2012
  Firm Ranked #1 in 33 Legal Areas
  November 1, 2011
• Real Estate Development & Land Use - June 2011
  Real Estate Development News
  June 21, 2011
• U.S.News & World Report Names Parker Poe as a Top-Tier Law Firm
  Firm Ranked #1 in 22 Legal Areas for 2010
  September 15, 2010
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Henry Campen to Serve on Renewable Energy Policy Committee
  Parker Poe Partner to Add Insight on Wind Energy
  July 29, 2010
• Towns Go Green; Credit Tightens
  May 2, 2008