Nancy A. Lottinville

Nancy A. Lottinville’s real property practice is fully engaged in all areas of land use development and governmental permitting as well as in multiple aspects of transactional real estate.

Ms. Lottinville’s land use practice involves representation of development applications before municipal, county, state and regional governmental authorities in a wide range of land development uses including manufacturing, office, warehouse, restaurant, hotel, medical and residential. She has prosecuted multiple prerogative writ appeals on behalf of both developers and objectors including drafting complaints, briefs, motions through oral argument. Her litigation experience includes challenges, in trial and appellate courts, to municipal actions taken in contravention to conservation easements and challenges to the actions of condominium boards in violation of operating documents.

On the municipal side, Ms. Lottinville counseled the Planning Board of Highland Park for many years on an extensive range of legal issues, has been engaged in the preparation of municipal zoning ordinances and multiple master plans and has successfully defended prerogative writ challenges. In the redevelopment area, Ms. Lottinville guided the municipal board through the legal requirements of the needs determination process in an extensive downtown redevelopment plan involving over sixty properties in the municipality’s main street redevelopment plan, and successfully defended the Planning Board’s determination of need in subsequent litigation.

Ms. Lottinville has conducted extensive zoning due diligence investigations and authored zoning due diligence reports in support of complex financing and title transactions involving office, multiple office building complexes, hotel office complexes, electrical generation facilities, manufacturing facilities, and rental apartment developments.

Ms. Lottinville handles commercial transactions and has extensive experience in development, purchase and sale of preferred residential properties as well as of age restricted real estate. Ms. Lottinville has drafted complex title documents pertaining to all manner of deed restrictions and easements, including maintenance and development rights and conservation.

Loyola University of Chicago (J.D., 1975)

Loyola University of Chicago (B.A., 1972)

State of Illinois 1975

United States District Court for the 7th Circuit 1975

State of New Jersey 1976

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1976

State of New York 1981

Member, New Jersey State Bar Association

Member, Illinois State Bar Association

Member, Chicago State Bar Association

"New Jersey Proposes Addition of Solar Power Facilities to its Green Initiative," RPE Law Alert, July 26, 2010

"New Jersey’s 2009 Economic Stimulus Act: Focus on Development of Real Property," In-Sites, August 14, 2009

"Legislative Progress on Relief from New Jersey's “Statewide Non Residential Development Fee Act”," In-Sites, May 5, 2009

"Redevelopment: Exception allowing the record to be supplemented in an action in lieu of prerogative writ," NJPA Real Estate Journal, July 28, 2006 (Howard D. Geneslaw, Jason R. Tuvel, Nancy A. Lottinville)

"Affordable Housing Advisors Subject to Conflict Rules," In-Sites, August 29, 2003 (Paul M. Hauge, Nancy A. Lottinville)

"Tree Replacement Ordinances: Out on a Limb?," Land Use Section Newsletter of New Jersey State Bar Association, August 1999

Law Clerk to the Presiding Chancellor of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, 1975-1976