Aimee W. Lane

Areas Of Emphasis

Aimee is an associate of Walter & Haverfield LLP and a member of the Firm's Municipal Law, Public Law and Education Law practice groups. Aimee has considerable experience representing public entities, including cities, villages, townships and school boards and districts, in the areas of land use, planning and zoning, code enforcement, storm water management, including U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA mandates, public improvement projects, nuisance abatement, eminent domain, records retention, Ohio's Sunshine Laws, election issues and more.

Prior to joining the Firm, Aimee gained municipal law experience through her work in a thriving outer ring suburb dealing with the issues of rapid residential and commercial development, including planning and zoning concerns, storm water management, code enforcement, codified ordinance revisions, administrative appeals and municipal litigation. Aimee also worked with a smaller community committed to the redevelopment of its aging buildings and infrastructure and the preservation of its limited green space.

Planning & Zoning

Aimee's main area of practice is land use, planning and zoning law. She has drafted codified ordinance provisions and amendments for zoning codes, including sign regulations, storm water management and sediment control ordinances and riparian setback ordinances.

Aimee is familiar with the municipal development plan and permit application process and has counseled public and private entities in appeals of decisions rendered by municipal boards, commissions and councils on requests for variances, permits and plan approvals. She has also represented public and private entities in lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of local zoning regulations.

Aimee also has experience defending public entities in municipal tort liability lawsuits.

Public Improvement Projects

Aimee has assisted local communities with public improvement projects including roadway construction, water and sewer line replacement and extension and public building construction and renovation. She has been actively involved in a design-build construction project for the renovation of a municipal building.

Nuisance Abatement

Aimee has successfully assisted public entities and private nonprofit organizations with the abatement of public nuisance conditions within their local communities through code enforcement actions, the issuance of condemnation orders and the initiation of receivership actions in municipal court.

Education Law

In the area of education law, Aimee provides counseling on numerous issues including, records retention, public records and open meeting law, election issues, and the acquisition and disposition of school property.

Other

Aimee also represents private clients on a variety of matters, such as, home construction disputes, disputes regarding title to real property and real estate development projects.

Presentations

• "Sunshine Law - Open Records Act," 2010 Mayor's Court Clerks of Ohio Professional Development Program, Embassy Suites Hotel, Cleveland-Beachwood, April 29, 2010

• "Administrative Law (Municipal): Ohio's Open Meeting Law, Ohio's Public Records Law, Data Security, Ohio's Ethics Law, Initiative and Referendum Petitions, Current Issues Regarding Mayor's Courts," Elected Officials Academy - Personal Leadership (sponsored by Kent State University), KSU - Main Campus, February 17, 2010

• "Ethics for Professionals and Citizen Planners" (Panelist), 2009 APA Cleveland Planning & Zoning Workshop (sponsored by American Planning Association, Ohio Chapter), Westlake, Ohio, November 13, 2009

• "Municipal Law: Ohio's Open Meeting Law, Ohio's Public Records Law, Data Security, Ohio's Ethics Law, Initiative and Referendum Petitions, Current Issues Regarding Mayor's Courts," Ohio and West Virginia Municipal Clerks Career Development Program (sponsored by Kent State University), KSU - Stark Campus, October 5, 2009

• "Rezonings," 20th Annual Planning & Zoning Workshop (sponsored by Ohio Planning Conference, Cleveland Section), Westlake, Ohio, November 14, 2008

• "The Authority of Local Governments to Adopt and Enforce Innovative Zoning Regulations for Storm Water Management," Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Environmental Symposium (sponsored by the Environmental Law Section), Cleveland, Ohio, November 12, 2008

• "The Authority of Local Governments to Adopt and Enforce Innovative Zoning Regulations for Storm Water Management," Ohio Wetlands Conference (sponsored by CLE International), Cleveland, Ohio, October 3, 2008

• "Riparian and Wetland Setbacks, Conservation Development and Other Low Impact Development Techniques to Manage Storm Water," Current Issues in Storm Water Regulation (sponsored by Lorman Education Services), Cleveland, Ohio, March 28, 2008

• "Competitive Bidding Update and the Design-Build Bidding Process," Cuyahoga County Law Directors Association Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, March 8, 2007

• "General Law," 24th Annual Ohio and West Virginia Municipal Clerks Development Program and Master Municipal Clerk Academy (sponsored by Kent State University), Aurora, Ohio, October 14, 2006

• "Making Sound Zoning Decisions: Zoning Variances in Ohio," 17th Annual Planning & Zoning Workshop (sponsored by Ohio Planning Conference, Cleveland Section), Cleveland, Ohio, September 30, 2005

Professional & Community Associations

• Ohio Bar Association
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
• Cuyahoga County Law Directors Association
• Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District, Board of Supervisors (2003-2008)
  

Education

Marietta College, B.A.(magna cum laude), 1996
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 1999

Licensed to Practice

• All Ohio Courts
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Areas of Practice