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Steve Mattas is a principal with the firm and specializes in land use, environmental, public agency elections and municipal law. Steve is the Chairperson of the firm's Land Use Practice Group and is the Co-Managing Editor of CEB Practice Guide, California Land Use Practice (CEB 2006). In addition to his role as Co-Managing Editor, Steve is the author or co-author of chapters covering general and specific plans, conditions of approval, housing, and specially regulated land uses including First Amendment issues, gaming, Native American lands, airports, harbors and ports, and federal and state facilities. Steve is also the Co-Author of the chapter on compliance with federal, state and regional agency requirements. This chapter includes regulation of wetlands, endangered species, wastewater and storm water discharges, ADA compliance, historic preservation, coastal resources, air quality and annexation issues.Steve presently serves as the City Attorney of Los Altos Hills and South San Francisco and has also served as special counsel to various public agencies and private developers in land use and environmental entitlement processes and litigation. Steve also served as an expert witness on land use and Fair Housing Act issues for the City of San Diego. He previously served as City Attorney for the City of Half Moon Bay.Steve has written articles and given presentations on land use law, redevelopment law, public agency compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, density bonus regulations and the regulation and amortization of adult businesses. Steve has participated as a speaker on land use issues before the California State Bar, the League of California Cities and as part of CEB presentations. He previously served on the League of California Cities' Housing, Community & Economic Development Committee as the City Attorneys' Department representative.As a 1986 graduate of the University of California at Irvine, Steve received a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1988 and his J.D. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1991. | 