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Ann Neil Cosby is a member of the firm's Government group, and is a founding member of the firm's Environmental and Regulatory Law and Land Use and Development Teams. Ann Neil represents localities, businesses and individuals on zoning, land use, environmental, utility and regulatory issues in legislative, administrative, judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings at the local, state and federal level. She assists clients in obtaining state and federal permits and with compliance and enforcement issues. She has litigated environmental, land use, and other cases throughout Virginia, in both state and federal court.
Ann Neil routinely assists clients in navigating zoning and subdivision requirements in jurisdictions throughout Virginia. She negotiates proffers and development conditions for municipal and private clients, and advises on growth management, land conservation, development rights, and related issues. She recently represented a Virginia county in its consideration and approval of a rezoning request for a project encompassing approximately 1,059.3 acres, and proposed for development as a mixed use, transit oriented development that incorporated form based and new urbanist zoning principles. She has represented land owner stakeholders in power line routing cases before the SCC, and has represented local governments in utility cases involving telecommunications companies, water, and wastewater utilities before the SCC as well. Ann Neil frequently teaches courses in land use, zoning and environmental law for statewide groups, including Plan Virginia (formerly the Citizen's Planning Education Association of Virginia). She was selected as a "Rising Star" in the Super Lawyers" published by Richmond Magazine in Land Use and Zoning (2007--2009), and was chosen for her Administrative Regulatory Law Practice by Virginia Business Magazine's Legal Elite. Articles
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