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New Jersey Municipal Law Attorneys
Land Use • Redevelopment Litigation
Kates Nussman Rapone Ellis & Farhi, LLP represents municipal governing bodies and boards, in a wide range of legal issues including condemnation, zoning and planning. The law firm also assists developers, property owners and environmental groups in dealing with land use, redevelopment and environmental issues.
Our Hackensack, New Jersey firm was established in 1913, and is dedicated to providing the highest caliber of legal representation to clients in Hudson County, Bergen County, Passaic County and throughout New Jersey.
General Counsel to Municipal Government Bodies
We serve as general counsel in municipal law and land use issues to municipal land use boards and other government entities throughout New Jersey. Michael Kates of our firm is general counsel to NJPO, a statewide organization of planning and zoning boards.
Mr. Kates serves as Borough attorney for Fair Lawn, as Zoning Board attorney for Closter, Englewood Cliffs and Alpine, and as Planning Board attorney in Englewood Cliffs.
Special Litigation: Development and Condemnation
We act as special litigation counsel for municipal government entities, property owners and environmental groups in disputes and litigation involving development, land use, zoning regulations and redevelopment and condemnation. For example, we represented the Borough of Leonia in an intermunicipal action opposing a redevelopment plan proposed by the neighboring community of Englewood. Our firm also represents Skylands C.L.E.A.N., a Passaic County, non-profit environmental group, committed to protecting the Highlands region of New Jersey from overdevelopment in environmentally sensitive areas of northern New Jersey.
We have prevailed on behalf of clients in two high-profile “eminent domain” cases. In one, we represented mobile home owners in Lodi, New Jersey whose properties were targeted for extinction in the name of redevelopment. The trial court sided with our clients (the homeowners). In the other case, the Jersey City Redevelopment Authority withdrew its condemnation action against a tavern owner whose property was intended to extend the football field of an adjoining parochial school. The law firm joined with the New Jersey American Civil Liberties Union, successfully arguing that the potential taking was not a valid public use and violated church-state constitutional prohibitions.
One of our partners, Michael B. Kates, offers extensive experience as a New Jersey municipal law attorney, and several of our attorneys practice in this area. We welcome all government entities and officials, as well as homeowners and developers with municipal government issues. Contact our Kates Nussman Rapone Ellis & Farhi, LLP law firm to schedule an initial consultation.
Kates Nussman Rapone Ellis & Farhi, LLP
New Jersey Municipal Law Attorneys
190 Moore Street, Suite 306
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
Phone: 201-488-7211 Fax: 201-488-1210
The Hackensack lawyers of Kates Nussman Rapone Ellis & Farhi, LLP represent clients in Newark, Elizabeth, Union City, Paterson, and all of northern New Jersey, including Hoboken, Woodbridge, Wayne, Montville, Morris, Chatham, Troy Hills, Hanover, Milburn, Montclair, Jersey City, East Rutherford, North Haledon, Fairfield, Clifton, Alpine, Fair Lawn, Englewood Cliffs, Cedar Grove, Fort Lee, Weehawken, and Lodi. We serve clients in Bergen County, Hudson County, Passaic County, Sussex County, Monmouth County, Middlesex County, Union County, and Essex County.