Gornitzky GNY provides legal counsel and support in the process of obtaining planning and construction permits from municipalities and planning authorities, and represents clients in appeals and administrative petitions pertaining to plans and permits, expropriations and depreciation compensations under section 197, betterment levies, and more.
Our administrative-law planning and construction team has in-depth knowledge and extensive experience in accompanying and promoting complex planning and permits processes in various construction sectors, including residential projects, hotels, offices and employment projects, logistics and storage, industry, commerce, urban renewal, energy, quarries, mines and natural resources, transportation, conservation, coastal and agricultural environments, and others.
The Gornitzky team accompanies our clients from the feasibility study stage through zoning changes and land betterment, drafting plan documents, representation in objection proceedings, advancing the obtainment of construction permits, leniencies and nonconforming use permits involving local and district planning committees, the national council, the Committee for National Infrastructure, the Protection of the Coastal Environment Committee and others, all the way to representation in proceedings before deciding appraisers, the objections committee, appeal committees, administrative courts, and the High Court of Justice.
Gornitzky GNY also provides counsel and representation in claims for expropriation cancellation or compensation, in depreciation compensation claims under section 197 of the Planning and Construction Law, and in proceedings for cancelling or reducing betterment levies.
Gornitzky’s clients – some of Israel’s leading and biggest business groups with considerable land holdings – enjoy a comprehensive professional envelope that incorporates exceptional expertise in administrative law and planning and construction with solutions for intersecting sectors of commercial-civil law such as real estate, real estate taxation, partnership dissolution, infrastructure, energy and environmental law, and criminal law.
