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Michael Marshall
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Suite 2700
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394
Michael is a land use attorney and planning consultant with an educational and professional background in law, engineering, and business administration. He represents private and public sector clients, including property owners, developers, financial institutions, title companies, and large institutional entities such as hospitals and universities, municipalities, and counties in land use, planning, and real estate...
Michael is a land use attorney and planning consultant with an educational and professional background in law, engineering, and business administration. He represents private and public sector clients, including property owners, developers, financial institutions, title companies, and large institutional entities such as hospitals and universities, municipalities, and counties in land use, planning, and real estate matters.
Michael advises private sector clients regarding property acquisition, due diligence, and development yield analysis; title examination; analysis and review of restrictive covenants; and the preparation and review of purchase and lease agreements. He provides guidance and advice throughout the development planning and entitlement process on matters that include large-scale master plans, developments of regional impact, site plans, plats, zoning code and map amendments, comprehensive plan amendments, variances, conditional use approvals and development agreements. He appears before county commissions, city councils, community redevelopment agencies, planning and zoning boards, and other permit approval agencies in securing such approvals. He has also served as counsel of record or expert witness in land use and real estate litigation matters, such as certiorari review of local government land use decisions, constitutional due process, takings and other property rights claims, state and federal environmental claims, zoning code enforcement actions, actions to quiet title and release properties from restrictive covenants or other encumbrances, as well as landlord-tenant disputes.
In the public realm, he has worked closely with local governments in developing and drafting comprehensive plans, special purpose plans, zoning codes, and other land development regulations. He has also represented local governments in defending comprehensive plans and land development regulations against both judicial and administrative challenges.
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Michael advises private sector clients regarding property acquisition, due diligence, and development yield analysis; title examination; analysis and review of restrictive covenants; and the preparation and review of purchase and lease agreements. He provides guidance and advice throughout the development planning and entitlement process on matters that include large-scale master plans, developments of regional impact, site plans, plats, zoning code and map amendments, comprehensive plan amendments, variances, conditional use approvals and development agreements. He appears before county commissions, city councils, community redevelopment agencies, planning and zoning boards, and other permit approval agencies in securing such approvals. He has also served as counsel of record or expert witness in land use and real estate litigation matters, such as certiorari review of local government land use decisions, constitutional due process, takings and other property rights claims, state and federal environmental claims, zoning code enforcement actions, actions to quiet title and release properties from restrictive covenants or other encumbrances, as well as landlord-tenant disputes.
In the public realm, he has worked closely with local governments in developing and drafting comprehensive plans, special purpose plans, zoning codes, and other land development regulations. He has also represented local governments in defending comprehensive plans and land development regulations against both judicial and administrative challenges.
Education
- Florida State University College of Law, JD
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington, MBA
- North Carolina State University, BS, Civil Engineering
Admissions
- Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Practice Areas
Industries
Media
Professional Activities
- The Florida Bar, Environmental and Land Use Law Section (2006–present)
- Urban Land Institute
- District Management Committee Member (2022–present)
- Mobility Committee, Member (2010–present), Chair (2022–present)
- Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Directors (2018–2021)
- Riverwalk Trust
- Board of Directors (2014–2021)
- Master plan and projects committee (2014–2021), Chair (2015)
Community
- Leadership Broward, Class XXXVI
- Leadership Boca Raton, class of 2011
- City of Fort Lauderdale Budget Advisory Board Member (2020–present)
- City of Fort Lauderdale Infrastructure Task Force Member (2020–present)
Michael is a land use attorney and planning consultant with an educational and professional background in law, engineering, and business administration. He represents private and public sector clients, including property owners, developers, financial institutions, title companies, and large institutional entities such as hospitals and universities, municipalities, and counties in land use, planning, and real estate... matters.
Michael advises private sector clients regarding property acquisition, due diligence, and development yield analysis; title examination; analysis and review of restrictive covenants; and the preparation and review of purchase and lease agreements. He provides guidance and advice throughout the development planning and entitlement process on matters that include large-scale master plans, developments of regional impact, site plans, plats, zoning code and map amendments, comprehensive plan amendments, variances, conditional use approvals and development agreements. He appears before county commissions, city councils, community redevelopment agencies, planning and zoning boards, and other permit approval agencies in securing such approvals. He has also served as counsel of record or expert witness in land use and real estate litigation matters, such as certiorari review of local government land use decisions, constitutional due process, takings and other property rights claims, state and federal environmental claims, zoning code enforcement actions, actions to quiet title and release properties from restrictive covenants or other encumbrances, as well as landlord-tenant disputes.
In the public realm, he has worked closely with local governments in developing and drafting comprehensive plans, special purpose plans, zoning codes, and other land development regulations. He has also represented local governments in defending comprehensive plans and land development regulations against both judicial and administrative challenges.
Education
- Florida State University College of Law, JD
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington, MBA
- North Carolina State University, BS, Civil Engineering
Admissions
- Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Practice Areas
- Affordable and Workforce Housing
- Appellate Practice & Legal Strategies
- State & Local Government Relations
- Infrastructure & P3
Industries
- The Florida Bar, Environmental and Land Use Law Section (2006–present)
- Urban Land Institute
- District Management Committee Member (2022–present)
- Mobility Committee, Member (2010–present), Chair (2022–present)
- Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Directors (2018–2021)
- Riverwalk Trust
- Board of Directors (2014–2021)
- Master plan and projects committee (2014–2021), Chair (2015)
- Leadership Broward, Class XXXVI
- Leadership Boca Raton, class of 2011
- City of Fort Lauderdale Budget Advisory Board Member (2020–present)
- City of Fort Lauderdale Infrastructure Task Force Member (2020–present)
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