Specialties
Land Use & Environmental
Land use matters are often complex, involving intertwining aspects of administrative, environmental, contract, and constitutional law.
Dr. Benumof's land use and environmental practice is focused on providing his clients with the knowledge and tools to successfully navigate the ever-changing complexities of local, state, and federal land use/environmental laws and regulations…particularly, when the stakes are high and the issues are complex and technical, requiring specialized expertise and experience with overlapping issues of land use law, geology, and geotechnical engineering.
A perfect marriage of his professional and academic interests as a Ph.D. geologist and land use practitioner, Dr. Benumof has always focused on the interaction between people and their geological and environmental surroundings. Whether the basis for catastrophic landslides, coastal and shoreline erosion, unique hydrogeologic and hydrologic circumstances affecting water supply and/or quality, earthquake hazards, or adverse soil mechanics underlying a building foundation, geologic and geotechnical conditions tend play a significant societal role wherever people attempt to interact with nature.