The attorneys of Hardy, Carey, Chautin & Balkin have been representing both local governments and businesses in their dealings with local governments for more than 18 years. We have extensive experience drafting ordinances and contracts and in administrative and litigation matters related to municipalities, school districts and other local governmental entities as well as parishes and counties in Louisiana and Illinois.
Our attorneys have served as general municipal attorneys handling all of a city’s legal work and have served as special counsel on matters ranging from adult use regulation to zoning, telecommunications and cable television.
On behalf of local governments, we have:
- drafted dozens of zoning codes and zoning code amendments
- drafted hundreds of zoning ordinances approving specific developments
- negotiated and draft annexation agreements, sales tax sharing agreements, recapture agreements and other economic development agreements
- litigated more than a dozen zoning cases and successfully argued at least six in the appellate courts
- drafted adult use regulations for more than a half dozen communities
- successfully defended those adult use regulations in both state and federal, trial and appellate, courts
- drafted rights-of-way control ordinances
- negotiated, drafted and administered telecommunications and cable television franchises
- negotiated and drafted zoning ordinances for the placement of cellular tower
- negotiated and draft agreements for the placement of cellular antenna on governmental property, including water towers
- negotiated and drafted contracts for the purchase of goods and services
- negotiated and drafted employment agreements
- negotiated and drafted engineering and construction contracts
- provided counsel to school districts on issues related to compliance with special education laws and regulations
On behalf of businesses we have:
- shepherded both residential and commercial developments through various communities’ zoning processes; obtaining planned unit development approvals, variances, special (conditional) uses, subdivision approval and zoning map and code amendments
- negotiated and drafted purchase and service contracts
- negotiated and drafted telecommunications franchises and leases of governmental property, including water towers, to install wireless communications facilities
- litigated contract claims
