STEARNS WEAVER MILLER is a full service law firm with offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Tallahassee and Coral Gables. Our Land Development, Zoning and Environmental Department is a statewide practice group focused primarily on the Florida marketplace. This focus enables us to understand Florida’s political, business and development trends at the state, regional and local government levels, and effectively represent and serve our clients throughout all regions of Florida. Our team provides our clients an array of legal and planning services related to transactions, land use entitlements, land development, and environmental matters, as well as governmental affairs representation and litigation related to those practice areas. We represent clients at federal, state, regional, and local levels on a broad range of environmental and land use issues involving wetlands, coastal development, greenfields, comprehensive plan amendments, protected species and habitat, property rights, water quality, brownfields, rezoning, contaminated sites, sovereign submerged lands, marinas/docking facilities, due diligence reviews, water use, developments of regional impact, toxic torts, utilities, natural resource extraction, stormwater management, beach nourishment, variances, platting, transfer of development rights, and climate change/coastal resilience. Our Department brings together land use, environmental, property rights, and litigation attorneys, in-house planners, and GIS mapping staff. We have strategically built our practice group to include attorneys and planners from many different professional disciplines, each providing unique assets for our clients. Our team includes attorneys previously serving as in-house counsel for corporations and industry groups, as well as attorneys and planners who formerly held high-level positions with major local governments and regional and state agencies – this diversity brings multiple perspectives to the table which enables creative problem solving, and results in practical advice to our clients. For additional information, please visit www.stearnsweaver.com.