Land Use Institute 2024
Date: Dec 5, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick,
Member Price: $195.00
Non-Member Price: $244.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Land Use
Earn up to 7.1 credits, including 1.2 in Ethics and 2.4 in Diversity! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Gary S. Forshner, Esq.
- Law Offices of Gary Forshner, South Amboyis the founder and Principal of the Law Offices of Gary S. Forshner in South Amboy, New Jersey, after previously serving as the Co-Chair of the Redevelopment and Land Use Department of one of New Jersey’s most prestigious law firms. He concentrates his practice in land use, zoning and real estate development and redevelopment, and represents local, national and international developers, property owners and other business clients engaged in mixed use, residential, industrial, office, retail and affordable housing development projects. Mr. Forshner provides sophisticated counsel and guidance across all phases of the project life cycle, including land use planning and approvals; permits and variances; appearances before municipal, county and state boards and agencies; and appeals of unfavorable land use decisions. He has also served as special land use counsel to municipalities and the New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA).
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Mr. Forshner is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Land Use Law Section and a member of the Mercer County Bar Association. He is a Director of the NJBA, has been Chair of the Association’s Master Sponsor Committee and has served on or chaired several other committees. Mr. Forshner has been a Trustee of the Shore and New Jersey Builders Political Action Committees as well as the Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey. He has been a member of the Builders League of South Jersey, the National Association of Home Builders and the Legislative Affairs Committee of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties-New Jersey (NAIOP-NJ), and has served on several committees of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
Mr. Forshner has lectured on zoning and planning, sustainable energy land use, eminent domain, real estate transactions, financing and leasing, and attorney and government ethics topics for organizations including ICLE, the NJBA and ICSC, and is the author and co-author of articles which have appeared in the New Jersey Lawyer, the New Jersey Law Journal and other publications. He is the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Political Action and the 2013 Builders’ Choice Award, both bestowed by the New Jersey Builders Association, and several other honors. He is also a frequent contributor to the New Jersey Law Blog.
Mr. Forshner received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.
(8/23) - Creigh Rahenkamp, PP, AICP
- Creigh Rahenkamp & Associates, Riverton
Presenters
- Joshua D. Bauers, Esq.
- Fair Share Housing Center, Cherry Hill
- Daniel Busch
- Colliers Engineering & Design
- Jason A. Cherchia, Esq.
- Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., Woodbridge
- Christine Cofone
- Cofone Consulting Group, Red Bank
- Michael L. Collins, Esq.
- King Moench and Collins LLP, Red Bank
- Adam J. Faiella, Esq.
- Sills Cummis & Gross, Newark
- Alexander Fisher, Esq.
- Savo, Schalk, Corsini, Warner, Gillespie, O’Grodnick & Fisher, Somerville
- Kathryn Gregory, PP, AICP
- Gregory Associates LLC
- Kelly McCormick, PWS, LEED AP
- Langan
- John McDonough, PP, AICP, LA
- John J. McDonough Associates
- Thomas Muller, PE, PP
- Senior Principal, Dynamic Engineering Consultants, PC
- Graham Petto, PP
- Topology, Newark
- Andrew B. Robins, Esq.
- Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. - Newark, NJ (125109), Newark
- Robert F. Simon, Esq.
- Herold Law, PA, Warrenis a Shareholder in and Co-Managing Director of Herold Law, P.A. in Warren, New Jersey. He focuses his practice in land use regulation before local zoning and planning boards; real estate-related litigation including land use, tenancy, tax appeals, condemnation and title actions; and commercial and residential real estate transactions. Mr. Simon has been qualified as an expert witness in both Superior Court and District Court in legal malpractice and mortgage fraud matters. He has been Board Attorney for the Township of Tewksbury Land Use Board, Special Land Use Counsel for the Borough of Wallington as to Affordable Housing and land use litigation, and Board Attorney for the Township of Millburn Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, Mr. Simon is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Land Use Law Section and has been Chair of the District XIII (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren Counties) and District VB Fee Arbitration Committees. He has been a member of the NJSBA Real Estate Law Section and has lectured for ICLE and Lorman Education Services.
Mr. Simon received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he served as a member of the Editorial Board of the New Europe Law Review. He was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable R. Benjamin Cohen, J.S.C.
(8/23) - Thomas J. Trautner, Jr., Esq.
- Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, Roseland
- Steven K. Warner, Esq.
- Savo Schalk Corsini Warner Gillespie, Somerville
- Mark Zelina
- WJH Engineering
Every year, the Land Use Institute brings together attorneys, planners and other experts who will examine how retailers, commercial landlords, builders, developers, tenants and towns are responding to current challenges.
As an attendee, you’ll hear practical advice that you can apply immediately to your practice and have a chance to network with colleagues and land use professionals.
Program Agenda:
- 9:00 | Welcome and introduction
- 9:05 | Environmental permitting: stormwater and flood hazard rules for the 21st Century and beyond
- Moderator: Gary S. Forshner, Esq.
- Speakers: Daniel Busch; Kelly McCormick, PWS, LEED AP; Thomas Muller, PE, PP; Andrew B. Robins, Esq.; Mark Zelina - 10:30 | Planning: how to present use variance and other variance proofs
- Moderator: Creigh Rahenkamp, PP, AICP
- Speakers: Christine Cofone; Alexander Fisher, Esq.; Gary S. Forshner, Esq.; Kathryn Gregory, PP, AICP; John McDonough, PP, AICP, LA - 12:00 | Lunch
- 12:30 | Diversity and inclusion: affordable housing: the rules, the numbers and how to implement
- Moderator: Creigh Rahenkamp, PP, AICP
- Speakers: Joshua D. Bauers, Esq.; Michael L. Collins, Esq.; Thomas J. Trautner, Jr., Esq.; Graham Petto, PP - 2:30 | Ethics: representing multiple affordable housing clients in a town. Ethics for board members and how to boot
- Moderator: Alexander Fisher, Esq.
- Speakers: Jason A. Cherchia, Esq.; Adam J. Faiella, Esq.; Gary S. Forshner, Esq.; Steven K. Warner, Esq.; Robert F. Simon, Esq. - 3:30 | Adjourn
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