Bio: Current: Consulting Director, Newburgh Community Land Bank Former: Director, PathStone Community Improvement of Newburgh Land Use and Construction Attorney
Education: JD, Brooklyn Law School MUP, CUNY Hunter College BS, Cornell University
Key Publications: Land Bank Case Study, APA Planning & Law Division Newsletter, Winter 2013.
Past Assignments: Land Banking Lecture, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Fall 2012.
Bio: Jeff LeJava is Managing Director of Innovation at Pace Law School’s Land Use Law Center for Sustainable Development. There he oversees and edits the Center's newest publication, the TOD Line, the transit-oriented development newsletter for the southern New York and western Connecticut region. He also conducts research and publishes on a variety of land use topics, including TOD, urban agriculture, sustainability, and the interplay between land use and climate change. At Pace, Jeff also serves as an adjunct law professor where he teaches Land Use Law and Environmental Dispute Resolution. Previously, he was Administrator of the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Program for the New Jersey Highlands Water Protection & Planning Council, a state land use agency that manages the protection and development of an 860,000-acre region of northern New Jersey. In that capacity, Jeff developed and was implementing one of the nation’s largest TDR programs. He also served as Staff Attorney for the Council where his responsibilities included litigation coordination and overseeing the agency’s open space and farmland preservation activities. Before joining the Highlands Council in 2005, Jeff practiced environmental law for seven years with White & Case LLP and then Latham & Watkins LLP. He is qualified to practice before the New Jersey and New York bars and the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Education: Pace University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude along with a Certificate in Environmental Law, 1998; College of the Holy Cross, B.A., cum laude, 1994.
Key Publications: J. LeJava and M. Goonan, Cultivating Urban Agriculture: Addressing Land Use Barriers to Gardening and Farming in Cities, 41 Real Estate Law Journal 216 (Fall 2012).
Other Publications: J. Bacher and J. LeJava, Shifting Sands and Burden Shifting: Local Land Use Responses to Sea Level Rise in Light of Regulatory Taking Concerns, Zoning and Planning Law Report, Vol. 35, No. 8 (August 2012).
Past Assignments: Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Annual Conference 2013, The Rural-Urban Connection: Foodshed Planning, Saratoga Springs, NY, February 11, 2013. New York State Master Watershed Steward Program, Watershed Management & Land Use Law, Acra, NY, October 20, 2012. Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Conservation Subdivision & Smart Design Workshop, Legal Implications of Conservation Subdivision, Ferndale, NY, April 30, 2012. New Jersey Future, 2012 Redevelopment Forum, Making Redevelopment a Net-Plus for the Environment, New Brunswick, NJ, March 9, 2012.
Bio: Attorney, Garvey Schubert Barer, Portland Oregon
Education: BA, Lewis & Clark College 1992 MS, University of Utah, 1995 JD, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College
Key Publications: I have co-authored many articles with Edward J. Sullivan dealing with comprehensive planning. Most notably, "Out of the Chaos; Towards a National System of Land-Use Procedures" The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2002).
Past Assignments: I have spoken at a number of Oregon APA seminarsas well as a number of Continuing Legal Education conferences for attorneys.
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