Recently, Gunster's Brian Seymour was featured in an article by the Daily Business Review focused on Florida's Infill Redevelopment Act. If signed into law, the act would require local governments in the state's most populous counties to allow residential development on parcels of five acres or larger to encourage infill development, or "the construction of buildings or other facilities on previously unused or underutilized land located within an existing urban or otherwise developed area."
Seymour, a shareholder and co-chair of Gunster's real estate practice, explains that the act can help address the growing supply and demand imbalance in South Florida housing. Areas like Palm Beach are experiencing an influx of businesses—and subsequently, the people who follow them. "We need to have places for them to live, and if we don't have enough places for them to live, all it does is increase prices, and it makes it harder for everybody else," Seymour said. He added that the act "looks at how can we try to find some supply, but at the same time, gives those neighbors that are around these recreational facilities that may be contaminated the opportunity to buy them if they don't want to have the homes."
Brian Seymour co-chairs Gunster's Real Property practice. He represents clients throughout Florida who need experienced land use and property rights counsel. Since joining the firm out of law school, Brian has represented land owners and developers in matters of land use, zoning, comprehensive planning and environmental resource permitting, as well as eminent domain, land use and constitutional property rights litigation. Brian has worked on properties and projects related to all aspects of Florida's economy - residential communities, retail, office and industrial developments, mixed-use, transportation and logistics, agriculture, mining, education, and sports facilities.
