Preeminent land use attorney, M. Brett Gladstone, has joined the San Francisco law firm of Goldstein, Gellman, Melbostad, Harris & McSparran LLP as of January 1, 2020. Brett represents investors, developers, and government in land-use proceedings and CEQA compliance concerning residential and mixed-use developments throughout the Bay Area. Brett makes regular appearances before Bay Area Planning Commissions, City Councils, Boards of Supervisors and Landmarks Boards. Recently, Governor Newsom appointed Brett to the California Architects Board. 1980 graduate magna cum laude of Harvard University and a member of the Class of 1983 of Duke University School of Law, and widely recognized for his legal expertise, Brett lectures on a variety of topics, including development entitlements, condominium law, and planned developments. Before joining G3MH, Brett was a partner with the large San Francisco based law firm of Hanson Bridgett LLP. Some of his recent projects include a new San Francisco Public Library Branch; a supermarket and dwelling units built at the center of Glen Park, San Francisco; advising a large Bay Area hospital system on its obligations under a campus-wide development agreement; entitlements for a 194 unit condominium building in San Francisco’s Mission District; approval of a 463 unit residential building in San Francisco’s Executive Park; approval of a 200-room waterfront hotel near San Francisco’s Ferry Building; conversion of warehouse properties into office and multi-media facilities; representing a Peninsula city in negotiating development agreements on sites involving over 2,000,000 sf of new construction; converting San Francisco’s landmark Armory Building into a cultural arts center; and entitlements for the construction of 55 units of low/moderate income housing in San Francisco’s Mission District. Brett Gladstone was admitted to the practice law in California in the year 1983.
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Three Important New Actions Taken by San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Control Medical and Recreational Cannabis Facilities
Published 2019
Land Use Law Alert
San Francisco Reworks its Program for Requiring Developers to Assist with Affordable Housing
Published 2019
Land Use Law Alert
San Francisco's Tree Ordinance: New Rules Helping Property Owners Taking Effect This July 1
Published 2018
Land Use Law Alert
New and Retrospective Seismic Improvement Requirements Affecting Older San Francisco Buildings: How Property Purchases and Refinancings May Be Affected
Published 2018
Land Use Law Alert
Supervisors Pass Legislation to Encourage Adding ADUs (Additional Dwelling Units)
Published 2018
Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute News
Post-Recession Tentative Maps Not Yet Recorded: Will San Francisco Give Any More Extensions?
Published 2018
Land Use Law Alert
City to Allow Developers to Assist in Small Affordable Housing Site Acquisitions
Published 2018
Land Use Law Alert
Amendments to the In-Law Unit (Accessory Dwelling Unit) Law
Published 2018
Land Use Law Alert
The ABCs of ADUs
Published 2017
SF Apartment Magazine
San Francisco Boosts Housing Inventory by Authorizing Infill 'In-Law' Units Across the City for the First Time
Published 2017
Land Use Law Alert
Comply and Conserve
Published 2017
SF Apartment Magazine
Removal of Housing Units (Legal or Not) Becomes Even Harder in San Francisco
Published 2017
Land Use Law Alert
Prop I May Shut Down Market Rate Housing in the Mission
Published 2017
Land Use Law Alert
Put Your Best Facade Forward
Published 2017
SF Apartment Magazine
Mission Impossible
Published 2017
SF Apartment Magazine
Supervisor Campos Initiates Market Rate Housing Moratorium
Published 2017
Land Use Law Alert
Recent Local Anti-Speculation Tax - Although Defeated Last November, The Proposed Law is Expected to Return in a Form More Likely to Pass
Published 2016
Land Use Newsletter
Voters Approve Mayor's Ballot Initiative Calling for a Goal of 30,000 New Dwellings of which 30% will be Affordable
Published 2016
Land Use Newsletter
Board of Supervisors Enacts Tighter Chain Store Regulations After Two Years of Debate
Published 2016
Land Use Law Alert
What the Final New Airbnb Legislation Means for You, Your Tenants and Your Liabilities
Published 2016
Land Use Law Alert
Moratorium on Conversion of PDR Uses in Central SoMa Plan Area
Published 2015
Land Use Law Alert
New Law Seeks to Make Industrial Incubator Spaces Called "Small Enterprise Workspaces" More Attractive to Build
Published 2015
Land Use Newsletter
Proposed Ballot Initiative Measure Introduced by the Mayor Would Block Proposed Affordable "Housing Balance" Initiative Measure in Most of City
Published 2015
Land Use Newsletter
Affordable Housing is Being Built
Published 2015
Land Use Newsletter
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Considers Restricting Construction of Market Rate Housing in the Central City and SoMa When Not Enough Affordable Housing is Being Built
Published 2015
Land Use Newsletter
If You Build It, They Will Come
Published 2015
Land Use Newsletter
Long Term Rules for Short Term Rentals
Published 2014
SF Apartment Magazine
San Francisco Proposes Regulations for Airbnb and Similar Platforms
Published 2013
Land Use Law Alert
San Francisco Supervisors Again Attempt to Limit Home, Apartment Sizes and Limit Demolitions
Published 2013
Land Use Law Alert
Capturing (San Francisco) Lightning in a SOMA Bottle
Published 2013
Land Use Law Alert
Capturing Lightning in a SoMa Bottle
Published 2013
The Registry
San Francisco's Off-Street Parking Requirements Eliminated for Good
Published 2013
Land Use Law Alert
Central SoMa Rezoning Moves One Step Further at the Board of Supervisors
Published 2013
The Registry
Repeal of Costa Hawkins Could Preclude Developers of New Buildings From Ever Selling Condominiums
Published 2013
Land Use Law Alert
Up To Code
Published 2013
SF Apartment Magazine
Central SOMA Rezoning Plan Goes Before SF Board of Supervisors for Approval for the First Time
Published 2013
Land Use Law Alert
A Merge Purge
Published 1999
San Francisco Apartment Magazine
Proposed Ordinance Will Require Ventilation System Installation for Many Projects in San Francisco's SoMa District and Elsewhere Near Major Roadways
Published 1997
Land Use Law Alert
San Francisco Supervisors Make Major Changes to Housing Laws During the Most Recent Month
Published 1994
Land Use Newsletter
San Francisco Takes One More Step Toward an Almost Complete Ban of New Chain Stores (Formula Retail Stores)
Published 1991
Land Use Newsletter
As of June 1, 2013, Compliance Required for New Disabled Access Local Rules for Non-Residential Propeties
Published 1991
Land Use Newsletter
Developers Handed Victory from California Supreme Court on City Inclusionary Housing Fees
Published 1991
Land Use Newsletter
CEQA Law Change: After Ten Years, San Francisco Permit Holders Do Not Have to Wait Until Construction Starts to Be Free of Appeals of Their Permits
Published 1991
Land Use Newsletter
Changes Proposed to the Sale of Transferable Development Rights in San Francisco
Published 1991
Land Use Newsletter
July 1, 2013 is the Final Date to Take Advantage of a San Francisco Development Impact Fee Deferral Program
Published 1991
Land Use Newsletter
Billboard Laws
Published 1991
The San Francisco Recorder
Letting the Air Out of Airbnb
Published 1991
San Francisco Apartment Association Magazine
When Building, Plumbing and Electrical Permits Must be Obtained
Published 1991
San Francisco Apartment Association Magazine
The Mechanics of Creating Condominiums and Planned Developments in California
Published 1991
California Real Property Journal, State Bar of California
State Cuts Builders Some Slack: a Review of Recent Legislative Changes in the California Environmental Quality Act
Published 1991
California Builder
Historic Buildings and Asset Preservation
Published 1991
The San Francisco Recorder
Redevelopment Agency Project Area Committee (Mid-Market), Former Member
Board Member, Greater San Francisco Association of Realtors
Housing Action Coalition
Board Member and Secretary, California Architects Board
San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
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