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Description: CROSS-TRAINING FOR BUSINESS LAWYERS 2021 Series
Episode #4: Zoning & Land Use-101
July 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM CST
Navigating the complexities of local land-use and zoning laws is critical to virtually any commercial real estate transaction as well as to the long-term flexibility and continued use and operation of a property. Zoning laws may limit the types of operations that can go on at the property. Legal issues relating to land use include easements (the right of access or other limited non-ownership interest in property) by government, utilities, and other entities, and issues relating to eminent domain. The ability of an owner or potential owner of property to obtain required permits and approvals from local planning boards, zoning boards, construction officials and other government/public entities is central to the interests of sellers, buyers, lenders, neighbors, and in some cases even competitors, all of which may take a position in the applicable proceedings. This webinar covers these topics.
This webinar is delivered in Plain English, understandable to you even if you do not have a background in the subject. It brings you into an engaging, even sometimes humorous, conversation designed to entertain as it teaches. And, it is specifically designed to be viewed as a stand-alone webinar, meaning that you do not have to view the other webinars in the series to get a lot out of it.
Speaker Information
Moderator:
Christopher Cahill, Partner, Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP
Mr. Cahill is a partner at Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP, in Chicago, Illinois. He guides secured lenders, creditors, debtors, creditors’ committees, potential purchasers and others through bankruptcy cases, out-of-court workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and receiverships. Mr. Cahill has substantial mega-case experience representing very large debtors, and counsels and litigates on behalf of manufacturers and secured lenders in large and middle-market cases.
Mr. Cahill also publishes frequently and speaks regularly on commercial insolvency issues. For example, he is an executive editor of Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, 2d Edition (Jonathan P. Friedland, Elizabeth Vandesteeg & Christopher M. Cahill eds., 2020).
Bernard I. Citron, Partner, Thompson Coburn, Chicago
Bernie represents developers, land owners and building owners in the areas of land use and municipal law in the city of Chicago and its surrounding municipalities. He counsels on zoning issues, annexation, economic redevelopment and historic preservation matters. His clients have included senior citizen housing developers, hotels operators, retail developers, hospitals, restaurant developers and residential developers ranging from single-family homes to high-rise multi-family projects. His emphasis has been both in the City of Chicago and surrounding municipalities, as far afield as Waukegan and Sugar Grove. He has represented both national companies and entrepreneurial developers.
In recent years more and more of his business has involved adoptive re-uses of both buildings and properties. The projects have ranged from rehabbing older office buildings into residential projects to adopting shopping centers to new uses. Many of these projects have involved various forms of economic incentives including tax credits, tax abatements and Tax Increment Financing. Bernie started his career in the City of Chicago’s Corporation Counsel’s Office where he was involved in land use, zoning, real estate, building code
enforcement and general municipal law. Prior to law school, he practiced as an architect with the firm of Schaffer-Bonavolanta Architects, Inc. For 15 years, he served as village attorney for the Village of Vernon Hills along with providing special counsel services for various municipalities.
Bernie has taught as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall School of Law, teaching Land Use Law in the Masters of Real Estate Program. He also has lectured and continues to lecture on Land Use Law and Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University and Illinois Institute of Technology. Along with practicing Law, Bernie is a musician and plays electric bass in various blues ensembles in Chicago.
 | | Practice Areas: | | Real Estate Law | | | Online Media Type: | | Audio | | | Production Date: | | 07/08/2021 | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 5 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | On Demand | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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| | • | Christopher Cahill - Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger LLP | | • | Bernard I. Citron - Partner, Thompson Coburn, Chicago |
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