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Education

  • J.D., USC Gould School of Law

  • B.A., magna cum laude, University of California, San Diego

Bar Admissions

  • California

Services

  • Land Use

  • Environmental & Natural Resources

Memberships

  • Women's Law Association

  • Public Interest Law Foundation

  • Urban Land Institute, Programs Committee

Lindsay M. Tabaian

Partner

Lindsay is a partner in the Los Angeles office where she focuses her practice on land use, environmental law, and general litigation matters. She advises clients on land use entitlements, transactional matters, real estate disputes, environmental issues, California Environmental Quality Act compliance and local government law matters.

Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Lindsay worked at a Southern California law firm serving as the primary contract city attorney for a number of cities, including Cypress, San Dimas and Carson, California. During this time she also represented many other cities and public agencies advising on various issues related to land use, entitlements and environmental law.

With a decade of experience Lindsay has built a sophisticated and well-rounded land use practice with a general focus in the following three areas:

General Land Use & Entitlement Work

Lindsay guides projects from diligence to entitlement, including development of project strategy, resolution of disputes involving local government maters and public agency law, and compliance with CEQA. Her familiarity with city and agency politics and her network of municipal contacts of both staff and City officials adds value to her clients. Lindsay has entitled a variety of development projects including mixed-use, industrial, residential, retail, medical and medical office, master-planned, and commercial developments.

Transactional Matters

Lindsay routinely represents clients in connection with the preparation and negotiation of complex agreements required to finalize projects and close deals. The transactional portion of her practice has included work in land use (Development Agreements, CC&R's, easements, and licenses), environmental law (ECC&R's, Land Use Covenants, and CLRRA Agreements), litigation, and construction management.

Land Use & Environmental Litigation

Lindsay also has substantial litigation experience predating her time with Allen Matkins while serving as a contract City attorney with an emphasis in land use and general municipal law, including significant litigation and trial experience. Lindsay's litigation experience includes trials involving land use disputes, environmental/CEQA compliance, water rights, contaminated real estate and redevelopment. Should a project end up in litigation, Lindsay has the experience to help her clients through the process.

Accolades

  • Named to Southern California Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2017 - 2023)

Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Lindsay worked at a Southern California law firm serving as the primary contract city attorney for a number of cities, including Cypress, San Dimas and Carson, California. During this time she also represented many other cities and public agencies advising on various issues related to land use, entitlements and environmental law.

With a decade of experience Lindsay has built a sophisticated and well-rounded land use practice with a general focus in the following three areas:

General Land Use & Entitlement Work

Lindsay guides projects from diligence to entitlement, including development of project strategy, resolution of disputes involving local government maters and public agency law, and compliance with CEQA. Her familiarity with city and agency politics and her network of municipal contacts of both staff and City officials adds value to her clients. Lindsay has entitled a variety of development projects including mixed-use, industrial, residential, retail, medical and medical office, master-planned, and commercial developments.

Transactional Matters

Lindsay routinely represents clients in connection with the preparation and negotiation of complex agreements required to finalize projects and close deals. The transactional portion of her practice has included work in land use (Development Agreements, CC&R's, easements, and licenses), environmental law (ECC&R's, Land Use Covenants, and CLRRA Agreements), litigation, and construction management.

Land Use & Environmental Litigation

Lindsay also has substantial litigation experience predating her time with Allen Matkins while serving as a contract City attorney with an emphasis in land use and general municipal law, including significant litigation and trial experience. Lindsay's litigation experience includes trials involving land use disputes, environmental/CEQA compliance, water rights, contaminated real estate and redevelopment. Should a project end up in litigation, Lindsay has the experience to help her clients through the process.

Accolades

  • Named to Southern California Rising Stars by Super Lawyers (2017 - 2023)

RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY & MIXED-USE

  • Wood Partners. Long-term representation of national multifamily residential developer including handling of planning and zoning issues, political strategy, CEQA compliance, development of affordable housing, public improvements, processing subdivision maps, and fee disputes.  Representative projects, include:
    • Upland Colonies. Entitlement of a large mixed-use project (203 apartments, 60 condominiums & ground floor commercial) in the City of Upland, California.  In entitling this project, successfully overcame both political opposition and the demands of a difficult network of City staff members relating to issues including Specific Plan compliance, traffic and parking impacts, and CEQA.
    • Alta Cuvee. Entitlement of a 5.56-acre, 260-unit residential project in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California with complex site planning and CEQA issues.
    • Etiwanda. Land use and CEQA counsel for the acquisition and entitlement of 6.5 acres in Rancho Cucamonga, California for a multifamily mixed-use development which will be comprised of two four-story buildings with 307 residential units, 8,000 square feet of retail, and over 400 parking spaces (garage and surface).
    • Fontana. Land use and CEQA counsel for the acquisition and entitlement of 8.7 acres in Fontana, California for development of a 343-unit multifamily residential project with ground floor retail space.
  • Blackstone/TruAmerica Multifamily Acquisition. Lead land use counsel for $500M+ portfolio acquisition of seven multifamily development sites throughout Southern California (City of Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Clarita, Lakewood, El Cajon and Forest Park). 
  • MPL/North Shore at Mandalay Bay. Land use and environmental counsel for $300 million, 91-acre master-planned residential community containing 292 single family homes and condominiums in the City of Oxnard.  This is a Brownfield site requiring entitlements, environmental approvals, and complex agreements from and with the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the City of Oxnard.
  • Brookfield/Village Residences at San Antonio. Lead land use counsel for Brookfield's acquisition and development of a 5.8-acre mixed use site in the City of Mountain View, California.
  • Oaktree Capital/425-429 N. Palm Avenue. Represented investment partner Oaktree Capital in entitling a luxury condominium project in the City of Beverly Hills.
  • Hollywood & Highland. Land use counsel for proposed renovations and upgrades to landmark site in City of Los Angeles containing premier entertainment, retail, hotel and transit uses.

OFFICE, INDUSTRIAL, LOGISTICS & OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

  • Fortune 50 Technology Company. Serve as day-to-day co-lead land use partner managing the land use requirements of this six-phase, 92-acre master planned campus in San Bruno, California that will include office buildings, R+D, commercial, and retail for a total of 2.46 million net new square feet of planned uses on the project site.  This project requires an array of approvals, including a Specific Plan, legislative zoning approvals (General Plan Amendment, Zone Change), Site Plan Review, Vesting Maps, a Development Agreement ("DA") and a Program & Project Environmental Impact Report ("EIR"), as well street vacations, dedications, third-party agency approvals and complex agreements with/from the City of San Bruno, Caltrans, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the Airport Land Use Commission.
  • InSite Property Holdings. Due diligence and entitlement strategy for eight-property portfolio acquisition of storage facility/industrial properties in multiple California jurisdictions (City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, Richmond, San Jose), Washington and Arizona.
  • McMorgan & Company/New York Life. Long-term representation in connection with entitlement and development of office buildings & union training facilities.  Recent projects include centers in Los Angeles (Motion Picture Industry Building), San Dimas (Southern California Plumbing and Piping Industry), and El Monte (Apprentice & Journeymen Training Center). Specifically for the A&J Training Center in El Monte, provided all land use due diligence, entitlement, and continued advice and counsel, including for CEQA compliance, for the acquisition and development of a 9.2 acre lot with an existing multi-tenant business park consisting of five separate structures containing a mix of office, light manufacturing, and warehouse space. This adaptive reuse project required a CPU and a number of additional entitlements and permits. 
  • Uber Technologies. Obtained land use and related development approvals for over 35 "greenlight hub" and "jump warehouse" centers across the country. 
  • Harvey Mudd College. Represented college in connection with approval by the City of Claremont of amendment to master plan for campus development and the subdivision and sale of undeveloped parcels for campus expansion.
  • Crown Castle/Santa Ana Wireless Facility Upgrades. Represented Crown Castle in obtaining entitlements for installation of numerous wireless communication facilities to support Crown Castle's expansion and updates to 5G systems throughout the City of Santa Ana. 

HEALTHCARE FACILITIES

  • Kaiser Permanente. Serve as co-lead land use partner for a variety of Kaiser campus and hospital facility expansions, some of which include:
    • Los Angeles Medical Center ("LAMC") Campus. Expansion of the 2.5 million sf LAMC campus to replace inefficient and aged facilities and address medical provider deficits in member communities.  The LAMC project involves the demolition of multiple existing facilities and development of new and/or replacement medical office buildings ("MOB(s)"), procedure centers, a hospital addition and parking structures in three phases.
    • College Street Campus. Kaiser's expansion of an existing behavioral health hospital with new medical office buildings, expansion of the existing hospital for inpatient services, ancillary facilities and a parking structure. 
    • Murrieta Campus. Approval and development of five-phase 824,500 sf medical center development comprised of a 254-bed hospital, ambulatory care facilities, outpatient medical office clinics and buildings, urgent care facilities, radiation oncology services, a central energy plant, surface and structure parking, and ancillary uses.
  • Prospect Medical Holdings/Los Angeles Community Hospital at Bellflower. Represented Prospect in obtaining City approval for conversion of a general acute hospital into a 100-bed psychiatric acute care hospital facility.
  • Dignity Health/California Hospital Medical Center. Advised and assisted Dignity Health in seeking funding from the City of Los Angeles Transfer of Floor Area Rights Public Benefits Trust Fund to help underwrite the development of the Leavey Trauma Center at California Hospital Medical Center.

 

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