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Tara Duhy

  • Land Use & Real Estate Law Practice Group Chair, Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A.

Biography

Tara Duhy chairs the firm’s Land Use & Real Estate Law Practice Group. As part of her state-wide land use, natural resource and water law practice, Tara advises clients through every stage of permitting, government coordination and enforcement related to development including: 

  • Comprehensive land-use planning; 
  • Zoning, site planning and other local development orders;
  • Transportation planning and concurrency, including coordination with the Florida Department of Transportation and regional metropolitan planning organizations;
  • Development of regional impact (“DRI”) review, including coordination with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and regional planning councils;
  • Environmental resource permitting (“ERP”) and water use permitting through the various Florida water management districts;
  • Coastal construction and environmental wetland permitting through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission;
  • Federal wetland and coastal construction permitting through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; 
  • Endangered Species Act coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 
  • Federal NEPA compliance; and
  • Related administrative and civil litigation, including appeals.

Tara is an active alumna of Leadership Florida, and currently serves on the Gulfstream Region Council. Tara is also active in the Florida Association of Community Developers and the Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Directors of Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County.  She has been listed as a Top Lawyer in Palm Beach Illustrated Magazine, and in the past as a Rising Star by Florida Super Lawyers, a peer designation awarded to only 2.5% of Florida lawyers. In 2013, she was selected as a Rising Star by the Daily Business Review, a program recognizing the region’s 40 most promising lawyers under the age of 40. 

Tara earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in 1997 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado School of law in 2004.