Professional
Highlights
• Obtaining
entitlements for the Washington Mutual - Seattle Art Museum expansion
project on the site next to the existing museum. The Seattle Land Use
Code needed to be amended to allow this unique partnership to occur, and
the City Council unanimously passed our package of amendments.
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Worked with Seattle Mariners baseball team to obtain permits and approvals
for SAFECO Field. As everyone knows, the schedule for this project was
very ambitious and there were many community issues to be addressed. Over
three million people a year visit SAFECO Field, and I am proud to have
assisted in making this a reality.
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Serve as land use counsel to a wide variety of multi-family and commercial
developers, throughout Puget Sound.
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Co-author of Land Use Petition Act, enacted by the State Legislature to
create a simplified and uniform set of rules for appealing local land
use decisions to court.
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Recognized in years 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 as one of the
"Super Lawyers" in Washington by Washington Law & Politics,
a local legal and professional publication.
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Department of Construction and Land Use, City of Seattle, Senior Planner,
1978-1985.
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Admitted to practice before the Washington State Supreme Court.
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Professional
and Community Activities
Board of Trustees, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, 2004-2008.
Chair, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce Land Use Committee, 2005-2008.
Appointed by Mayor Nickels to Seattle Commercial Code Advisory Committee,
2003.
Master Builders Association, Seattle Builders Council.
Downtown Seattle Association, Growth and Density Task Force.
Special appointments to University of Washington Law School Faculty:
Instructor, Land Use Planning, Fall Quarter 1996; Instructor, Environmental
Law, Winter Quarter 1999 and Winter Quarter 2002.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Author, "New
Rules Will Help Foster Lively Business Districts," Puget
Sound Business Journal, March 23-29, 2007.
Speaker, "Impact Fees," Washington State Bar Association Seminar,
2007.
Speaker, "Legal Issues for Washington Professional Land Surveyors,"
Half Moon Seminars, 2006.
Author, "Skills for Administrative Hearings," Washington
Lawyer's Practice Manual, Washington State Bar Association, 2000 -
2007.
Co-author, "Environmental Critical Areas," chapter 100, Real
Property Deskbook, Third Edition, Washington State Bar Association,
1997 and 2001.
Education
University of Washington School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, 1988.
Moot Court Competition, Outstanding Oralist and Outstanding Team. Moot
Court Honor Board.
University of Washington, Masters of Urban Planning, 1978. Faculty Award
as Outstanding Student of 1977-1978.
Stanford University, B.A., with highest honors, 1974. Phi Beta Kappa.
Outside
Interests
When I am not reading my New Yorker, you will find me playing
tennis or gardening. I love to travel, and a World Atlas can always be
found on my living room table.
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