100 King St W, Suite 6200, 1 First Cdn Pl, PO Box 50, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1996 (ON)
Chris is a partner in Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP's Real Estate Group and practises in the areas of administrative and regulatory law, with a focus on municipal and planning advice and environmental approvals. He specializes in providing clients in both the public and private sectors with strategic advice on coordinating and addressing the various levels of approvals required for complex projects. Chris advises clients on a broad range of matters, including heritage issues, growth management issues, cultural heritage, parkland dedication/valuations, employment land and aggregate resource policies, as well as ward boundary reviews. He also advises large landowner groups and individual clients on development charges and cost sharing matters, environmental assessment processes and approvals and the implications of provincial policies and initiatives. Chris appears regularly before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal and municipal councils, and has appeared before the Environmental Review Tribunal. He also advises clients on potential remedies in the courts, representing both the private sector and municipalities in bringing and responding to applications for judicial review of municipal and government decisions.
