Marcie Oppenheimer Nolan
mnolan@becker-poliakoff.com

Professional Experience
Ms. Nolan is an attorney and certified land planner in the Firm's Government Law & Lobbying Group. She concentrates her practice on land use and zoning issues assisting both public and private sector clients before all levels of regulatory bodies on entitlements and land acquisitions.

Ms. Nolan has appeared before state, regional and local bodies on virtually all land use matters including the creation of Comprehensive Plans, developing zoning codes/form-based codes, drafting ordinances and resolutions, and acting as board liaison at countless meetings including quasi-judicial matters, and code enforcement hearings.  Ms. Nolan has extensive experience in rezonings, variances, conditional uses, special exceptions, and site plan approvals.  She has also been involved in the approval process for Development of Regional Impact Development Orders, binding letters, and essentially built-out agreements. 

Ms. Nolan's experience includes 10 years working as a certified planner for the Town of Davie, City of Sunrise, and City of Greenacres. In that capacity, she managed all aspects of various land development projects, both large and small. As a certified planner, (AICP), Ms. Nolan can testify as an expert witness on land use and zoning issues.

Ms. Nolan is an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University where she teaches “Legal Aspects of Planning” to Masters in Urban and Regional Planning students.

Notable Experience

• Managed the Development Services Department for the Town of Davie, overseeing the Engineering, Building, Planning and Code Enforcement Divisions
• Managed a 10 million dollar a year budget and a staff of 65 employees
• Represented large scale land use amendment applications before the Department of Community Affairs, Broward County, South Florida Regional Planning Council, and local governments
• Experience writing land development codes including form based codes and preparing land development code interpretations.
• Extensive experience obtaining funding from Federal, State and local levels, including FDOT, HUD, MPO and Broward County
• Experience working with various governmental entities on the surplus of land for other beneficial uses.
• Experience preparing due diligence reports for land development applications, including large publicly funded infrastructure projects
• Experience on the preparation of requests for proposals, letters of interest and consultant selection and contact negotiations for all levels of engineering and planning work for local government
• Facilitated two large scale master redevelopment plans located within established Community Redevelopment Areas coordinating land use and transportation issues.
• Experience working with Community Redevelopment Agencies on redevelopment projects, including funding opportunities
• Preparation of the required studies and findings to support eminent domain action by local government
• Extensive experience in the preparation of interlocal agreements, developer agreements, and other intergovernmental agreements

Activities & Memberships

• Chair of the Davie Area Land Trust, a 501(c) 3 dedicated to providing assistance to existing agricultural property owners
• Graduate of Leadership Broward class of 28
• Former Board member, the Junior League of Fort Lauderdale; current sustaining member
• American Institute of Certified Planners, AICP
• American Planning Association (APA), Florida APA, and Broward APA

Bar Admission
Florida, 2008

Education
J.D., Nova Southeastern University, 2008
MURP, Eastern Washington University, 1995
BFA, University of Massachusetts, 1991