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Laurence S. Wiener is a shareholder in
the Public Law Department at Richards, Watson & Gershon with
more than 20 years of experience in local government and land use
law. He works with City Councils, Planning Commissions, and Redevelopment
Agencies throughout the State of California. Mr. Wiener is the City
Attorney of the Cities of Beverly Hills and Vernon, Agency Counsel
to the Vernon Redevelopment Agency, General Counsel to the Las Virgenes
Malibu Council of Governments and Authority Counsel to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
Airport and City of Vernon Industrial Development Authorities. He
has also served as the City Attorney for the Cities of Westlake
Village and Hidden Hills.
Mr. Wiener concentrates on the representation of public agency
clients in a wide range of government law areas and has spoken and
written extensively on public law issues including the Brown Act,
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and financing public
facilities. Mr. Wiener teaches a course on the Subdivision Map Act
for the UCLA Public Policy Continuing Education Program and served
as a consultant on the two-volume book, Practice Under the California
Environmental Quality Act. He also co-authored the first guidebook
on the implementation of Proposition 218, as well as one of the
early papers establishing a methodology for public agency implementation
of the Mitigation Fee Act, originally adopted as "A.B. 1600." Mr.
Wiener is often asked to provide input on Statewide legislation
impacting local governments and has served as President of the City
Attorneys Association of Los Angeles County and Chairman of the
editorial board of the League of California Cities "Municipal
Law Handbook."
Mr. Wiener specializes in negotiating and documenting complex land
use transactions. Transactions in which Mr. Wiener has been involved
include the Montage Hotel Beverly Hills Gardens Project, the Ten
Year Development Agreement between the City of Burbank and Bob Hope
Airport, and land use and environmental issues surrounding the negotiation
for the use of the Rose Bowl by a National Football League team.
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A.B., Princeton University, 1983
J.D., University of California School of Law, Los Angeles, 1987
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