SEQRA & GREEN BUILDING CODES

2ND Event in the Hudson Valley Sustainability Series

Wedenesday, September 9th from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at
Dutchess Land Conservancy, Millbrook, New York

Welcome

Jolanda Jansen, P.E., Hudson Valley Smart Growth Alliance and Jansen Engineering, PLLC

 

Green Building: The Regulatory Framework and Special Considerations for Municipalities

Anna Georgiou, Esq., Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs, LLP, www.wkgj.com

 

SEQRA as a Tool to Combat Climate Change

Katherine Zalantis, Esq., Silverbert Zalantis, LLP, www.szlawfirm.net

•Jolanda Jansen, P.E.

Ms. Jansen is a Pace law student (class of 2010) and a professionallytrained civil engineer with extensive regional planning experience. She is committedto achieving equitable access to housing through the legal system. Ms. Jansenhas lived in the Netherlands and New Zealand and maintains professional connectionswith Dutch individuals and organizations involved in innovative and sustainabledevelopment. She has been a member of the Hudson Valley Smart GrowthAlliance Working Group since 2001 and its volunteer facilitator since 2005.

•Anna Georgiu, Esq.

Anna L. Georgiou practices extensively in the areas of municipal law,real estate development, zoning and planning, and environmental law. Ms. Georgiousits as Zoning Board of Appeals Counsel to the Town of Yorktown, WestchesterCounty and has advised a number of the firm’s municipal clients. Ms. Georgiou has also represented property owners and developers in the local landuse approval and environmental review process, and in related litigation.Prior to practicing law, she was engaged in the development of affordablehousing and community development for the public and non-profit sectors. FormerlyMs. Georgiou was an adjunct law professor and Director of Research for theLand Use Law Center at Pace Law School.
Ms. Georgiou’s published articles include:

• NIMBI's Legacy: A Challenge to Local Autonomy: Regulating the Siting of Group Homes in New York State, 26 FORDHAM URBAN LAW JOURNAL 2 (1999);
• The Americans with Disabilities Act and Zoning, MUNICIPAL LAWYER (1997);
• The Assisted Living Program and Proposed Reforms, ELDER LAW ATTORNEY at 60 (1997).

She is the recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s John Regan MemorialScholarship Award and James A. Coon Award. She was Research and WritingEditor of the Pace Law Review (1997—1998).
Ms. Georgiou is a member of the New York State Bar Association, MunicipalLaw Section and Environmental Law Section and a member of the WestchesterWomen’s Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Environmental and Land Use Committee.

•Katherine Zalanatis, Esq.

Katherine Zalantis is a partner at Silverberg Zalantis LLP. Prior to joiningSilverberg Zalantis LLP, she was a partner with one of the 50 largest law firmsin the United States. Her areas of practice include zoning and land use, municipal,real estate and commercial law. She has substantial litigation experience in all ofthese areas, in both the New York State and Federal Courts. Ms. Zalantis has handlednumerous appeals relating primarily to zoning and planning, environmentaland general municipal law, including two cases of first impression before theCourt of Appeals involving cellular service and the federal TelecommunicationsAct. She has trial experience ranging from a jury trial in the Supreme Court,Bronx County to a complex damages hearing in the Commercial Part of SupremeCourt, Westchester County. In addition, she has worked on many real estate transactions representing individuals, small and large businesses, commercial landlordsand lending institutions. Kathy also is in charge of the firm's Connecticut zoning,land use and real estate practice.
She co-authored an article in the Municipal Lawyer entitled "Chambersv. Old Stone Hill: Court of Appeals rejects public policy argument and declines toextinguish private contractual rights." Kathy has been a speaker at a number ofCLE programs on land use and zoning topics, including RLUIPA, SEQRA andClimate Change.
She obtained her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree from SUNYStony Brook and graduated cum laude from Pace University School of Law in1995, where after serving as a staff member of the Pace Law Review, she wasappointed to the position of Executive Editor.