Gregory P. Powers

Gregory P. Powers is a shareholder in JDTP’s Land Use Development Services Group. His practice focuses on land use planning and development entitlements, environmental compliance and regulatory matters, and governmental affairs. Mr. Powers represents private and public clients in administrative hearings, and in all aspects of litigation before state and federal courts.
Prior to joining JDTP, Mr. Powers was Regional Land Use Counsel for one of the largest private master developers in the western United States. He was responsible for environmental review, entitlement processing, utilities and infrastructure planning, and permitting for a multitude of residential and mixed-use projects across California.
Mr. Powers has also served as a City Attorney for several cities, and as General Counsel and Special Counsel for various school districts, water districts, resource conservation agencies, non-profits, and joint powers authorities in California. He advises agency clients on governmental laws, including the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Political Reform Act, the Mitigation Fee Act, and public construction and bidding laws.
- Gonzaga University School of Law, J.D., 1999
- Pepperdine University, B.A., 1993
- "How Developers Can Avoid Pitfalls In Today’s Regulatory and Market Environment" (Co-Author), Smart Business Magazine, December 2011
- “Second District Court of Appeal Requires Payment of Prevailing Wages for Privately Funded Improvements,” California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter (Argent), March 2011
- “CEQA is a ‘Meaningless Exercise’ When the Agency is Unable to Shape the Project,” California Environmental Law Report (Matthew Bender), September 2010
- “Beeps and Chirps, or Legal Writing?,” Litigation News, November 1996
- State Bar of California

