PERMITTING

City, County, State & Federal

The process of obtaining federal, state, and local permits requires an extensive knowledge of current applicable permitting regulations, as well as a good working relationship with regulatory agency staff.  Lotspeich and Associates, Inc. (L&A) has developed and maintained excellent rapport with the various agencies' staff throughout the many regulatory changes that have occurred within the last several years.  An early part of the permitting process is the identification of environmentally sensitive areas that could potentially influence the final design and configuration of a project, and the type and amount of governmental coordination required for final permit approval.

Once a permit has been issued, a detailed project schedule is developed that tracks the submittal of key permit compliance material, including Notice of Commencement Forms, Conservation Easements documents, and the longer term compliance items such as field monitoring (vegetation, water quality/elevations) and preparation of monitoring reports.

The L&A staff has been involved in a wide diversity of project types: roads, utilities and stormwater; residential; commercial; golf; and parks, sector plans, and large scale ecological analysis. This diversity has allowed us to have exposure to virtually every conceivable development situation.  A great deal of our project involvement entails multi-disciplinary planning sessions during which project issues are discussed and solutions evaluated.  Our staff is accustomed to understanding the limitations and expectations of other project disciplines, and applying them within the ecological constraints that may be present for any particular project.  This process leads to solid and defendable solutions that meet the project’s needs while complying with all applicable regulatory requirements.