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Contact Us 55 Smith Avenue Mount Kisco, NY 10549 p: 914.666.5600 f: 914.666.6267 Attorney Advertising	John S. Marwell John S. Marwell’s practice includes litigation, administrative, and transactional work. He regularly represents clients before legislative, planning and zoning boards, obtaining environmental and land-use approvals for residential and commercial development projects throughout the region. He litigates land use, environmental, real estate, and commercial matters in the State courts, including having served successfully as lead counsel in several cases of statewide significance and national interest, from the trial court to the highest appellate courts.       Representative clients include real estate developers, the building and realty industry, conservation organizations, not-for-profit corporations, business corporations, religious and educational organizations, and individuals. Recent approvals which he and the firm have obtained include the rezoning and environmental approvals for major commercial and residential developments in Southern Westchester and the successful defense of litigation challenging those approvals; the rezoning, site plan and environmental approvals for the adaptive reuse of an architecturally designed stone barns complex in Central Westchester and auto storage facilities in Southern and Northern Westchester; successfully opposing numerous proposed municipal rezoning initiatives throughout the area, including one that would have prohibited the adaptive reuse of former waterfront industrial properties in Southern Westchester and another that would have imposed highly restrictive zoning regulations on a religious and educational institution in Rockland County; and obtaining the rezoning, environmental, site plan and special permit approvals for the first affordable senior housing development in one Northern Westchester community.      He is presently representing the owners of substantial proposed senior housing projects in both Southern and Northern Westchester and Putnam County, the latter involving several Article 78 litigations; a major commercial and residential adaptive reuse project of a corporate campus property in Northern Westchester; and a proposed new four-year college in Central Westchester. He has also successfully represented clients accused of zoning violations, through both administrative and litigation processes.       Active in professional and community affairs, Mr. Marwell is a Vice President of the New York State Bar Association, a member of its Executive Committee and has served in its House of Delegates since 2003. He is a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. He is a past president of the Westchester County Bar Association and the Westchester County Bar Foundation, and past chairman of Teatown Lake Reservation, the largest non-governmental nature conservation and education center in Westchester County, for which he is presently an honorary trustee. He is a former adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law, and lectures on litigation, professional ethics, land use property rights and environmental law matters at bar association and other professional conferences. He has published articles in professional and business publications. A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, he began his career as an attorney with IBM Corporation, and has been in private practice since 1976. He was listed in NY SuperLawyers 2007-08 and 2009-10.      Ext. 305   email
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