Professional
Highlights
• Serve
as legal counsel to The Quadrant Corporation for implementation of the
Snoqualmie Preservation Initiative (SPI). The SPI is a public/private/non-profit
collaboration that will, when fully implemented, utilize private funds
to preserve the highly valued viewshed of Snoqualmie Falls, place conservation
easements on approximately 3,600 high priority acres of land for viewshed
protection, sustainable forestry, habitat preservation, and trail enhancement;
finalize the urban growth area for the City of Snoqualmie; and provide
a development agreement for urban development of Quadrant-owned property
within the new UGA.
• Provide
legal counsel to The Quadrant Corporation for Phase II of its Snoqualmie
Ridge Master Planned Community, including coordinating environmental review,
negotiating a development agreement, processing a petition for annexation,
and obtaining necessary permits and approvals for the mixed use development.
Snoqualmie Ridge II will add up to 2,150 new homes and significant parks,
trails and open space to the existing Snoqualmie Ridge development. HCMP's
work on the original Snoqualmie Ridge approvals included complex negotiations,
agreements, and permits for the construction of new water and sewer systems,
including a reclaimed water system for golf course irrigation, and provision
of affordable housing.
• Provide
legal counsel to The Quadrant Corporation with regard to business park
developments in Snoqualmie, DuPont, and Federal Way. Representation includes
resolving environmental, traffic, stormwater, and land division issues.
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• Assisted
Lone Star Northwest (now Glacier) and WRECO in settlement negotiations
regarding a several hundred-acre sand and gravel mining and transportation
project in DuPont. These negotiations resulted in a landmark settlement
agreement with the State Department of Ecology, the City, and environmental
groups.
• Represent
jurisdictions, including Clallam County, in defending against petitions
challenging adopted comprehensive plans and critical area regulations,
before the Washington State Growth Management Hearings Boards. Provide
counsel in satisfying GMA requirements to include Best Available Science
in development of critical area regulations.
• Serve
as land use counsel to a variety of Puget Sound area real estate developers.
• Selected
as a "2001 Rising Star" by Washington Law & Politics,
December 2000-January 2001.
• Bogle
and Gates, associate attorney, 1990-1993.
• Washington
State Convention & Trade Center, Government Relations Specialist,
1984-1987.
• Admitted
to practice before the Washington State Supreme Court and the U.S. District
Court for the Western District of Washington.
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Professional
and Community Activities
Washington State Bar Association; Environmental and Land Use Law Section,
Executive Committee (elected by peers) since 1999, Chair 2003-2004.
Commercial Real Estate Women, member, 2004.
King County Bar Association; Volunteer Attorney, Neighborhood Legal Clinics,
1993-1997.
Washington Women Lawyers; Judicial Evaluations Committee, 1996.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Speaker, "Natural Resource Lands and Rural Lands Issues," Growth
Management Act seminar, sponsored by Law
Seminars International, November 13, 2006.
Speaker, "Rural Lands, Resources Lands," Land
Use in Washington 2006, sponsored by Law
Seminars International, April 20, 2006.
Speaker, "LID Legal Considerations: Cost, Risk and Marketability,"
Low Impact Development In Puget Sound: Experiences and Practices in
Residential Development, Lorman Education Services, May 18, 2005.
Speaker, "Revising Critical Area Ordinances," GMA
- Challenges and Solutions 2003, Law Seminars International, November
17, 2003.
Speaker, "Snoqualmie Preservation Initiative," Habitat Conference,
Law Seminars International, April 22, 2003.
Speaker, "Stormwater Permitting in Washington State," Be Ready
for Recovery! Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S., March 27, 2003.
Speaker, "GMA/Shoreline Integration: Will It Ever Happen?"
Shoreline
Regulation and Permitting Workshop, Law Seminars International,
July 23, 2002.
Co-Author, "State Environmental Policy Act," chapter 92, and
"National Environmental Policy Act", chapter 114, Real Property
Deskbook, Third Edition, Washington State Bar Association, 1997.
Speaker, "Growth Management Hearings Board Cases," Mid-Year
Meeting of Environmental and Land Use Law Section, Washington State Bar
Association, 1996.
Co-author, "Planner's Panacea or Pandora's Box: A Realistic Assessment
of the Role of Urban Growth Areas in Achieving Growth Management Goals,"
University of Puget Sound Law Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Spring 1993).
Education
University of Puget Sound (now Seattle University School of Law), J.D.,
summa cum laude, 1990.
Washington State University, B.A., cum laude, 1982.
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, 1979-1980.
Outside
Interests
When we're not busy with our endless home remodel, my family likes to
get away for a weekend of camping and hiking.
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