Kerry Shapiro leads the Firm's Government, Land Use & Zoning, Environment and Energy Department in the San Francisco office. Kerry has a comprehensive government, land use, environment, and natural resources practice, emphasizing permitting, environmental compliance, public land transactions, and related litigation, at federal, state, and local levels.

He has extensive experience working with the National Environmental Policy Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, Federal and State Endangered Species Acts, the Mineral Materials Act, the Mining Law of 1872, the California Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, California Water Law, zoning, general plan, variance and use permit processes, administrative appeals, and both administrative mandamus and general environmental litigation. Kerry performs these services on behalf of a variety of international and domestic corporations, emphasizing the building materials and development industries, pursuing multi-jurisdictional mineral resource extraction and land development projects.

Representative Experience:

• Soledad Canyon Sand and Gravel Mining Project, Bureau of Land Management, Record of Decision, approved August 2000, largest federally-approved sand and gravel project in the United States
• Embassy Vacation Resorts, City of South Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, approved 1996
• Baker & McKenzie, San Francisco, Partner, 2000-02