Neil S. Hyytinen

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)

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