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What is municipal and
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Municipal Law is a specialized area of law
and deals with matters that include:
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The Structure and Powers Of
Municipalities
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Elections
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Council and Council Members
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Bylaws
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Taxation
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Claims against Municipalities
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Planning Law largely concerns land
development. Land development in turn involves such areas
as:
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Services. Caron & Partners
offers a broad range of services in the area of municipal
law and planning. These services include:
- advising municipalities generally concerning matters
of municipal law and planning;
- drafting bylaws
- bylaw enforcement
- the drafting of agreements and other documents that
are specific to planning such as development agreements
and servicing agreements
- assisting and advising SDABs regarding proper
administrative procedure and regarding substantive
issues of planning law
- assisting and representing clients appearing before
municipal and administrative tribunals
- assisting clients regarding the collection of
municipal taxes
- assisting clients in applying for and obtaining land
use amendments, subdivision approvals, development
permits and other approvals and permits incidental to
land development
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Lawyers. The following lawyers
of our firm practice in the area of municipal law and
planning: Pat
Stopa, Tim
Platnich, Jean
Munn and
Greta Reiten.
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