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White & Smith Opens Lee's Summit Office
White & Smith relocated to Lee's Summit, Missouri, in the Kansas City region on July 1, 2006. Our office is located in the historic Annie Sue's Commercial Hotel building. This is a turn of the century structure that forms an integral component of the City's historic downtown. We are located directly across from an Amtrak station.

White & Smith Opens South Carolina Office
We are pleased to announce that Tyson Smith has opened our new office in Charleston, South Carolina. Tyson specializes in growth management, impact fees, public facilities financing, and zoning issues. Our presence in Charleston gives us quick access to our many clients in the Southeast and throughout the Atlantic coast, as well as continued support to our national client base.

Publications and Speaking
White & Smith, LLC is a leader in publishing and speaking on a national level in order to advance the profession.

We maintained a strong presence at the last four American Planning Association National Conferences in San Francisco, San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas. Our conference sessions included:

Implementing New Urbanism: the San Antonio Unified Development Code
Growth Management and Schools
Land-Based Classification Standards and Zoning
Instruction Manual for Advanced Regulatory Drafting Drafting (Workshop)
Development Codes for Built-Out Communities
Zoning on Trial
Zoning for Transit-Oriented Development
Impact Fees and Environmental Protection
Public Participation: How Much is Too Much?

Contact us for a copy of our presentations!

Sample publications include:

A 21st Century Land Development Code (with Freilich) (American Planning Association, 2008)

The Zoning and Real Estate Implications of Transit-Oriented Development, Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Legal Research Digest, No. 12 (January 1999)

Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances and Transportation Management, American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 465, 1996

Affordable Housing: Proactive and Reactive Planning Strategies, American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 441, 1992.

“Neotraditional Development: A Legal Analysis,” 49 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 8 at 3 (August 1997)

“Voluminous Materials" And Other Evidentiary Devices: Complying With The Telecommunications Act Of 1996, Proceedings of the American Planning Association National Conference, 1992

Amicus Brief, Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning (1992)

“Do Unto Religious Uses As You Would Have Done Unto Nonreligious Uses: An Overview of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000,” Fla. Bar Envt’l & Land Use Law Section Reporter (Jan. 2002)

"Unified Land Management Codes," Municipal Lawyer (Aug. 2006)