Damon Orobona has recently joined Miller, Miller & Canby as a highly recruited associate in the firm’s Land Development practice area. Damon’s practice includes real estate development, land use law, zoning, and administrative and municipal law. Damon focuses on representing clients in matters before administrative boards and elected and appointed officials. Damon’s clients include developers, builders, real estate investment trusts (REITs), landowners,and institutional organizations such as private schools and churches. Damon has considerable experience in transit-oriented development, mixed use planned development, affordable housing, master planning, urban design, and adequate public facilities. Prior to joining the firm, Damon served as a Senior Legislative Analyst for the Montgomery County Planning Department (MNCPPC) in a role that integrated the traditional disciplines of urban planning and land use law. During Damon’s tenure with the Planning Department, he worked on many of the County’s key planning initiatives and was a trusted advisor to the Montgomery County Planning Board, issuing recommendations on notable development projects and helping amend outdated zoning legislation. Damon’s experience at the Planning Department gives him valuable insight into dealing with site plans, project plans, preliminary plans, rezonings, special exceptions, and zoning text amendments. Damon is among a select group of land use professionals nationwide who are licensed to practice law and are AICP planning certified. Damon studied law at St. Thomas University, urban planning at Harvard University, and finance at Georgetown University. He is President-Elect of the American Planning Association’s 700- member Washington DC chapter and is Vice-Chairman of Georgetown University’s student advisory board for real estate.

Ms. Lee-Cho is a member of the Land Development & Real Estate Group at Miller, Miller & Canby, having joined the firm in 2002. Ms. Lee-Cho's practice includes land use, zoning, real estate, and administrative and municipal law. She focuses on representing clients in zoning and land use matters before various administrative boards and commissions, and also elected and appointed bodies. These include the Montgomery County Council, the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission Planning Board, the Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission, the Montgomery County Board of Appeals and Sign Review Board, the City of Rockville Mayor and Council, Planning Commission and Historic District Commission, and the City of Gaithersburg Mayor and Council and Planning Commission. Ms. Lee-Cho has represented a wide array of clients, including corporations, real estate investment trusts, developers/builders, retailers, commercial landowners, private educational institutions, hospitals and churches on matters including master planning, local map amendments, subdivision, site plan review, zoning text amendments, special exceptions, variances, building and occupancy permits. This work includes representation of clients on legislative matters at both the local and state levels. Ms.Lee-Cho's work includes experience in a number of issues, including transit-oriented development,traffic management, adequate public facilities controls, mixed-use planned development, environmental issues, urban design, affordable housing and historic preservation. Prior to joining Miller, Miller & Canby, Ms. Lee-Cho had a five-year association with a municipal law and and development firm in Los Angeles, California, where her land use practice focused on development impact review, California Environmental Quality Act compliance and entitlements procurement in connection with entertainment/sports and commercial development.

Mr. Kline joined Miller, Miller & Canby in 1974, has been a principal of the firm since 1981 and has served as head of the Land Development practice area since that time. Mr. Kline's practice concentrates on land use, zoning and subdivision law in Montgomery County and he has represented clients in many of the County’s planning and economic development initiatives. His areas of expertise include zoning, special exception, subdivision, master planning, building permit issuance, and administrative and real estate matters related to land development. He represents private clients, non-profit entities and municipal corporations and agencies. He has qualified and testified in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County as an expert in land use and zoning law, and he has been a guest speaker at numerous professional seminars and conferences. Mr. Kline is a member of the Bar Association of Montgomery County and the Maryland State Bar Association. On the former, he has served as Secretary, a member of the Executive Committee, Chairman of the Administrative Law Section and as member of various other committees. Related to his practice areas, Mr. Kline is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and the Maryland National Capital Building Industry Association.