Land Use Attorney

If your passion is land use and CEQA law, look no further. Join the Land Use/Environmental attorney team in the Placer County Counsel’s Office.

The land use team is a fast-paced group who works together on legal issues spanning implementation of several large-scale specific plans with a mix of housing and commercial uses and two university campuses; preservation and acquisition of open space and agricultural lands with the first-of-its-kind Placer County Conservation Program; regulation and planning in the Tahoe Basin, parks and trails, including the well-known Hidden Falls Regional park; regulation of wineries and breweries and review/legal support to current and long-range planning, environmental review, subdivisions, building and code enforcement.

For this position, we prefer 3-5 years of experience in all phases of land use entitlement, permitting and implementation processes, including administrative approvals and appeals. Experience practicing in the following areas of law is preferred: California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), State Planning and Zoning, Subdivision Map Act, Development Agreement, Mitigation Fee Act and Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP). Working knowledge of the following is a plus: vehicle miles traveled, wetlands, endangered species, conservation easement and fee acquisitions/transactions, wineries, parks, open space acquisitions and management agreements, and matters under the jurisdiction of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.