Neil Hyytinen practices in the areas of land use, planning and entitlements, including environmental and municipal law.

Mr. Hyytinen’s focus and accomplishments include:

• Representing a large publicly-traded REIT in land use due diligence and multiple entitlement efforts, including obtaining and amending master development permits for life science and biotech tenants
• Negotiating a favorable settlement of outstanding code and permitting issues involving a large resort community in the County of San Diego, while preserving and maximizing future development rights
• Representing institutional and nonprofit clients on planning, zoning and entitlement matters
• Negotiating and preparing conservation easements for habitat and biological mitigation for residential, industrial and institutional developments
• Representing a variety of interests on development matters in downtown San Diego, including processing code amendments to establish an industrial buffer/transition zone preserving an important base sector industry
• Negotiated a favorable use interpretation to allow a family-owned trust to lease its building in the Little Italy area of San Diego to a broader array of tenants
• Representing commercial, industrial and residential developers in navigating CEQA and Airport Land Use Planning constraints

Mr. Hyytinen is active in several professional associations including:

• The Real Property and Environmental Law sections of the California State Bar
• The Real Estate and Land Use sections of the San Diego County Bar Association
• San Diego Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure, Housing and Land Use Committee
• City of San Diego Code Monitoring Team
• Delegate of the Regional Chamber of Commerce on the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan Technical Advisory Group
• Urban Land Institute
• LEAD San Diego (2004 graduate)