MAKING DEVELOPMENT HAPPEN 

Attorney Dowling has a background in engineering which makes him uniquely qualified to shepherd your project through the permitting and financing process to ensure project success.  Attorney Dowling understands how projects are affected not just by legal considerations but also by financing, feasibility and construction.  Because of his experience on a local Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals, Attorney Dowling has unique and valuable insight into the regulatory and community relations aspects of the development process as well.  Like any competent lawyer, Attorney Dowling can certainly provide a detailed and nuanced analysis of the legal and regulatory risks and liabilities associated with a particular project.  But because Attorney Dowling is not just an attorney, he can also provide an analysis that takes into consideration and is compatible with the various other critical aspects of the development process.

REGULATING DEVELOPMENT 

If you own a home or rent and are concerned about how your neighbor or the government is planning on using land near you, Attorney Dowling can help ensure the land use activity you are concerned with is compliant with Massachusetts or Rhode Island law.  Transportation issues are often a contentious aspect of large development projects.  As an attorney with an extensive background in transportation engineering, Attorney Dowling is uniquely suited to critique, review and challenge development proposals.

• How do I obtain a Variance?

• How do I obtain a Special Permit? 

• How do I obtain a re-zoning?

• What is a nonconforming Use?

• Challenging a Zoning Ordinance or Bylaw 

• Subdivision and ANR Permitting (Form A)

• What is Site Plan Review?

• Traffic and Transportation Issues

• Enforcing Zoning Regulations

• Navigating MEPA/NEPA

• ​Judicial Review of Special Permits and Variances

• The Subdivision Approval Process

• Presenting to a Conservation Commission

• Presenting to a Planning Board

• Zoninng Board of Appeals

• Takings Issues 

• Zoning Opinion Letters

Attorney Dowling represents individuals and businesses throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island with concentrations in Bristol, Norfolk and Plymouth counties including the cities and towns of Attleboro, North Attleboro, Norton, Foxborough, Easton, Plainville, Wrentham, Franklin, Taunton, Seekonk, Swansea, Dighton, Mansfield, Walpole, Norwood, Sharon, Cumberland, Lincoln, Pawtucket, East Providence, North Smithfield, Woonsocket, Barrington and last but not least Warren.