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Steven A. Robins
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Areas of Practice:
 Land Use and Zoning
Includes:
 Administrative, Business and Governmental Law
Land use planning, zoning and development matters 


Phone:
(301) 657-0747

Fax:
(301) 347-1778

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Steven A. Robins chairs the firm's Land Use & Zoning practice group. He has extensive experience representing a diverse group of clients including developers, contractors, lenders, businesses, technology firms, landlords and property owners in all areas of real estate law, land use, zoning and development law, commercial law, administrative law and lobbying.

Steve has advised clients on numerous complex zoning map and text amendments, optional method of development applications, master plan amendments, comprehensive land use planning and zoning analyses, special exception and variance applications, preliminary and final plans of subdivisions, site plan review, condemnation matters, historic preservation and urban renewal issues, transit-oriented Smart Growth development, and on all aspects of regulatory permitting and licensing process. Steve often lectures on Smart Growth and other related topics.

Steve served on the Character Committee for the Court of Appeals of Maryland. He was Chairman of the Board of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and currently serves as a life board member. He is a graduate of the Leadership Montgomery Class of 1991 and an active member in the Urban Land Institute and the Maryland-National Capital Building Industry Association.  Steve also served as Counselor to the Board of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington and as President of the Ring House, a senior housing facility. Since 2001, he has served as Chair of the Montgomery County Public Safety Awards.

Steve received his undergraduate degree in political science, with distinction, in 1983 from the University of Michigan. He received his law degree in 1986 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as an editor of the American Criminal Law Review.

Steve is admitted to practice law in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia and is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, and Montgomery County Bar Associations.

Steve has been named to the current edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession for his work in the area of Land Use and Zoning Law. He has been named every year since 2007.

Steve recently was named the region's "Top Lawyer for Land Use and Zoning" by The Washington Business Journal for his work in transit-oriented development.

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