Douglas L. Rillstone

Douglas Rillstone represents clients in all aspects of the redevelopment of blighted, under-utilized, and often contaminated property for mixed use, or student housing, including issues with due diligence, development of contaminated property involving petroleum, solvents, metals and relic landfills, real estate contract negotiations, title, construction and permanent financing, Community Redevelopment Agency incentives, commercial condominiums, property exchanges, demolition and construction, and local permitting, variances, and land use approvals.Mr. Rillstone was selected by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission as a stakeholder representing landowner, agriculture, cattle and timber associations to develop Florida’s unique science-based regulatory process to designate and regulate protected species in Florida which included the development, adoptions and implementation of agricultural best management practices as an alternative to regulatory permitting and a process for Florida to implement the Federal Endangered Species Act. Mr. Rillstone has routinely represented land owners, developers, mitigation bankers, miners, agricultural interests (e.g., citrus, cattle, forestry and crop production), energy, major transportation and industry associations in all aspects of the regulation of species, wetlands, waste, hazardous substance, water, including permitting, consultations, rulemaking, listing and delisting decisions, administrative appeals, enforcement, policy development, rulemaking and legislation.His areas of practice include land use decisions and appeals; various aspects of the Development of Regional Impact (DRI) process; school and transportation concurrency; Rural Lands Stewardship; vested rights determinations; water use; wetlands; wildlife and plant regulation; marina development; contaminated property and redevelopment; sovereign lands; coastal construction; surface water; civil and criminal enforcement; NPDES permitting; and administrative rulemaking and litigation.