Professional
Highlights
Our firm approach seeks to ensure that our clients' interests are advanced,
while also being responsive to issues identified by regulatory agencies
and other interested parties. This approach has allowed us to successfully
permit some of the most complex projects in the Seattle area. My professional
highlights include the following:
• Active
involvement in recent amendments to Seattle's Downtown Plan
• Land
use counsel for the construction of the state convention center over I-5
in Seattle and the subsequent convention center expansion project, which
included an exhibit hall, an office building, the Elliott Hotel and public
atrium beneath a glass canopy arching over Pike Street. The projects involved
City departmental approvals, Hearing Examiner hearings, City Council approvals,
street vacations, conditional uses, rezoning, and transferable development
rights agreements.
• Land
use counsel to the University of Washington in the development of its
downtown Metropolitan Tract.
• Land
use counsel to the University of Washington in the development of its
master plans (1990-2000, 2001-2010), which approved an unprecedented building
program for new science and bio-tech facilities on its main campus.
• Represented
the University of Washington on negotiations of a Memorandum of Agreement
with Sound Transit, specifying the terms for light rail facilities on
campus.
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• Permitted
the redevelopment of Seattle's Union Station for over one million square
feet of office space.
• Permitted
the Pacific Place retail complex in downtown Seattle and advised the developer
on the issues pertaining to the redevelopment of three square blocks in
downtown Seattle for retail, office, telecommunications and housing uses.
• Represented
the state's largest sand and gravel operator in permitting a new mineral
extraction and shipping facility in DuPont, Washington. The project involved
shoreline rezoning, state and federal permits for a new dock facility,
and negotiation of a successful settlement with numerous environmental
organizations.
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Representing Coca-Cola in connection with its facility in Bellevue, Washington.
• Represented
the Federal Reserve Bank in connection with new facilities.
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Represented Tarragon in development of warehouse facilities in southwest
Washington.
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Represented Nitze-Stagen in connection with remodel projects at SODO Center
to accommodate Starbucks.
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Defended several local governments against challenges to their comprehensive
plans under the Growth Management Act.
• Recognized
in 2006 as one of the "Best Lawyers in Seattle" in Seattle
Metropolitan magazine (Environmental, Natural Resources and Real Estate
categories).
• Listed
in The Best Lawyers in America, 1997-1998, 1999-2000, 2001-2002,
and 2003-2004 editions, Woodward White; Real Estate Law (Land Use) category.
• Recognized
in years 1998-2007, as one of the "Super Lawyers" in Washington
by Washington Law & Politics, a local legal and professional
publication. Featured in a cover article in the August/September 2001
edition with my sister, Jenny Durkan. One of the top 50 women vote getters
in the 2003 and 2005 surveys.
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Professional
and Community Activities
Chair, Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, Land Use Group.
Chair, State of Washington; Land Use Study Commission; 1995 to 1998.
Chair, Washington State Bar Association; Environmental and Land Use Law
Section; 1994-1995.
Chair, Villa Academy (K-8) Board of Trustees; 2000-2001.
Seattle Preparatory School (9-12), Board of Trustees; 2005-Present.
WSU Foundation; Board of Trustees.
Extern to The Honorable Eugene Wright, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Admitted to practice before the Washington State Supreme Court and the
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Selected
Publications and Presentations
Speaker, "Shoreline Permitting Now and in the Future" and Workshop
Co-Chair, Shorelines Regulation
and Permitting Workshop, Law
Seminars International, October 2004.
Co-Chair, Confluence and Conflict: Can A Healthy Environment and a Healthy
Economy Coexist? Washington State Bar Association, October 2003.
Speaker, "Shoreline Permitting Now and In the Future," Moderator,
"Shoreline Permitting Case Study," and Program Chair, Shoreline
Regulation and Permitting Advanced Workshop, Law Seminars International,
July 2002.
Speaker, "Growth Management Act: Thinking Outside the Box: Creative
Strategies for the Future," Law Seminars International, September
1998.
Speaker, "Post-Election GMA Outlook: Epitaph or New Life? 1997 Legislative
Outlook for GMA," Law Seminars International, 1996.
Speaker, "Striking a Balance: Planning in the West," APA Annual
Conference, 1996.
Speaker, "Current Topics in Growth Management and Regulatory Compliance,"
Law Seminars International, 1996.
Speaker, Environmental and Land Use Law Mid-Year Meeting, Washington
State Bar Association, 1996.
Speaker, Association of Washington Cities Annual Meeting, 1996.
Speaker, State Planning Conference, 1996.
Speaker, Association of Washington Counties, Annual Meeting, 1995.
Speaker, "Growth Management Act," Washington State Bar Association,
1995.
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Education
University of Washington School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, 1981.
Editorial Board, Washington Law Review.
Washington State University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978. Phi Beta Kappa.
Outside
Interests
I like to spend my leisure time with my family. We enjoy golfing, boating,
water sports, traveling, and Mariners' baseball. My husband and I are
both active members of non-profit boards.
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