Steve Gurganus

Background

About Steve Gurganus

Steve is an adept land planner whose background includes private and public sector project development experience. As a principal planner, he assists clients and firm attorneys with rezoning, variance, and special and conditional use permit applications, presentations, interpretations, and appeals. He also provides land planning and transportation consultation services to individual and institutional property owners including commercial, multi-family, and mixed-use developers, lenders, schools, industry, and small and mid-size colleges and universities. Working independently, and with Womble Bond Dickinson attorneys, Steve interacts directly with local, state, and federal governmental staff, boards, and commissions. He reviews Comprehensive Plans and Zoning Codes, lobbies elected officials, leads text change efforts to amend plans and codes, and holds community meetings. Steve has managed and developed private commercial projects from concept development to move-in. He was a community planner, and then team leader, at the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for 10 years. While there, he also scoped projects, managed numerous consultant contracts, and coordinated with state and federal agencies. A certified NEPA practitioner, licensed North Carolina landscape contractor and real estate broker, and a certified plant professional, Steve helps clients navigate and respond to complicated land use, infrastructure, and transportation matters. Steve has helped resolve land use conflicts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Contact Steve to help with your land use planning needs.