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Contact Information 1901 Harrison St. 9th Floor Oakland CA 94612 510.273.8780
Practice Focus Land Use CEQA/NEPA Environmental Law Affordable Housing Proposition 218 Compliance Public Financing Redevelopment Transactions
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Wynne S. Furth | Of Counsel Professional ExperienceWynne Furth is of counsel in the Oakland office and has been representing public agencies for thirty years. Her practice is focused on land use, housing, and environmental law. Before joining McDonough Holland & Allen in 2006, she was a partner in Best Best & Krieger LLP in Riverside, California and City Attorney of Claremont, California. She then worked in-house for the City of Palo Alto, devoting much of her time in Palo Alto to negotiating development agreements for the re-use of commercial and industrial sites in the city with new commercial development, housing, and public amenities. These projects included substantial new affordable and market-rate housing, new public parks and parking structures, and commercial redevelopment. The project sites included important historic and biological resources and superfund sites. Finding consensus was an important council directive as existing neighborhoods needed to be assured that new development would contribute to their quality of life, while landowners and developers, historic preservation and housing advocates, neighboring jurisdictions, and the general public were keenly interested in both process and outcome. Wynne has extensive experience working for public agencies as city attorney or general counsel and as a land use lawyer. She has written custom zoning for mixed-use projects, transit-oriented development, affordable housing, transferable development credits for open space and historic preservation, “downtown” districts, and done extensive work with conservation easements of various types. She also has extensive experience in assisting cities with CEQA and NEPA compliance and working with state, local and federal regulatory agencies, including both the state and local coastal commissions. She represented the City in Citizen’s Committee to Save Our Village v. City of Claremont, (1995) 37 Cal. App. 4th 1157, a successful defense of the City’s finding of no adverse environmental affects from a carefully mitigated new building on a historic campus. She has also advised utility providers on capital projects, urban water management, and regulatory compliance. In addition to serving as City Attorney of Claremont for 25 years and of LaVerne for fourteen, Wynne has represented such cities as Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Ontario, Corona, La Verne, Glendora, Big Bear Lake, Shafter, and Hemet, as well as numerous special agencies and joint powers authorities. She has also served on the counsel committee in complex multi-party litigation cases involving local, state, and federal agencies. Presentations/PublicationsCo-author, "CALFED Bay-Delta Program EIR Adequate Despite Exclusion of Reduced Export Alternative," Public Law Legal Bulletin, McDonough Holland & Allen PC, July 2008 CEQA Update and Compliance," California Special Districts Association Annual Conference, October 2007 Presenter, "The End of Faith-Based Water Supplies: Urban Water Management Plans," Bay Area City Attorneys' Association, 2005 Presenter, “Ethics Workshops,” Sonoma County Counsel’s office; Land Use Section of County Counsels Association of California, 2004 Author/Presenter, “General Municipal Litigation Update,” League of California Cities Annual Conference and City Attorneys Department Conference, 2002-2003 Co-Author, “Proposition 218 Implementation Guide,” 1997 Presenter, Proposition 218 and 62 topics:
Leadership Positions/AffiliationsMember, State Bar of California; past Committee on the Administration of Justice member; past Attorney Discipline Preliminary Investigation Committee member Member, League of California Cities; past Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Practice Management and Ethics; past Second Vice President; past Proposition 218 Litigation Co-ordination Committee member; past Legislative Committee member; past Nominating Committee member Member, American Planning Association Member, American Bar Association Past Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys
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MHALaw Search Admitted to PracticeState Bar of California, 1973 United States District Court, Central District of California EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley, Center for the Study of Law and Society Fellow, 1973-1974 Harvard Law School J.D., 1971 Stanford University B.A., Economics, 1968 |
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