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Michelle Chan focuses her practice on land use entitlements, environmental compliance, and real estate transactions. Michelle represents developers, landowners, and public agencies in all stages of the development process for a range of projects, including mixed-use, commercial, and residential development projects throughout California. Michelle has significant experience assisting clients in securing land use approvals in connection with development projects, including general plan amendments, specific plans, zoning, and subdivision map approvals. She also assists clients in drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, development agreements, leases, easements, licenses, and related transactional documents and agreements in support of land use projects.
Michelle also regularly advises clients on compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act and represents clients at public hearings to obtain land use approvals. She also has experience defending entitlements in litigation.
Michelle’s current work include projects involving the redevelopment of regional retail centers, transit-oriented mixed-use development projects, large mixed-use master-planned communities, and high-density residential projects.
Maintaining an active pro bono practice, Michelle represents clients seeking asylum and assists local nonprofit organizations on a range of legal issues.
