Alan Murphy
- San Francisco
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Alan offers clients innovative solutions to complex and sensitive development challenges.
Emphasizing land use and development matters, including associated environmental review, Alan Murphy secures and defends land use entitlements and counsels clients in preparing development applications, throughout the approval process and in due diligence. Alan has significant experience with general plan and zoning interpretation and amendments, use permits, variances, development agreements, the Density Bonus Law, the Housing Accountability Act, SB 423 streamlining, other state housing legislation, and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Alan represents developers, landowners, educational institutions, and other clients before city councils and boards of supervisors, planning commissions, and local decisionmakers. He has successfully helped clients secure entitlements to develop thousands of new residential units across the San Francisco Bay Area, to redevelop property into three life sciences buildings totaling nearly 600,000 square feet in Foster City, and to redevelop over 500,000 square feet of office and research and development space in Mountain View.
Alan has been recognized for his excellence in land use and environmental law. He has lectured at Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and he accepted invitations to co-chair CLE International's last three conferences on California land use law in 2017, 2019, and 2024.
Education & Credentials
Education
- Yale Law School, J.D., Editor, The Yale Law Journal, 2008
- Stanford University, B.A., Political Science, 2003
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Related Employment
- Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA, Associate, 2010-2011
Clerkships
- Hon. Richard Clifton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Impact
Professional Leadership
- Bay Area Council, Housing Committee
- Urban Land Institute
- SPUR - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association
- California Association of Environmental Professionals
- Bar Association of San Francisco
