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Steven
Barshov

Principal

Steven
Barshov

Principal

Steven’s areas of specialization include land use law, environmental law, local government law, real estate, as well as related litigation. Having represented numerous developers, businesses, municipalities, and community organizations in more than 30 years of practice, Steven has handled projects of all sizes — from a large master planned community of 1195 units with a commercial center, to a small 3-unit subdivision, both inside and outside New York City. Steven has litigated in the United States Supreme Court; in federal courts in the Second, Fifth and Tenth Circuits; and at the New York Court of Appeals, Appellate Divisions, and trial courts in multiple counties. Steven has been qualified as a land use law expert witness in Supreme Court, Nassau County. Steven brings to any project a wide range of skills, including drafting complex real estate transactional documents, obtaining land use and related project approvals, undertaking required environmental analysis, and culminating in litigation, when necessary. Steven has written and lectured extensively in his areas of expertise. He is an adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School where he has taught Land Use Law, State and Local Government Law, and Real Estate Practice.

Development And Land Use

Javits Center

Location: New York, NY | Date: 2007

Sive, Paget & Riesel reprised its role as environmental counsel in connection with the environmental review of the original Javits Convention Center, representing the Javits Center again in connection with its proposed expansion.

Development And Land Use

Northern Westchester Hospital

Location: Westchester, NY | Date: 2011

Sive, Paget & Riesel represented Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, in obtaining rezoning and site plan approvals for its proposed expansion of the hospital and construction of a 57,000 square foot medical office building. The firm is coordinating the preparation of the scope and other supporting documents for the project's SEQRA review, and working with the involved agencies to obtain other required approvals. This includes the acceptance of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, which has oversight authority because of the project's location in the City's Croton Water Supply System watershed.

Development And Land Use

Tuxedo Reserve

Location: Tuxedo, NY | Date: 2011

SPR served as environmental counsel to the Related Companies in connection with the Tuxedo Reserve project, a planned residential and mixed-use project on 2,374 acres, primarily in the Town of Tuxedo in Orange County, New York. SPR provided legal advice in connection with the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for this project, which originally contemplated the construction of over 2,000 dwelling units and over 500,000 square feet of commercial space. SPR also provided advice on a variety of zoning and permitting issues relating to this project.

“Conference on the Public Trust Doctrine”

For: Albany Law School

Novemeber 2018

“Short Course on Zoning”

For: Westchester County Planning Federation

November 2018

“Land Use Law and Real Estate Practice”

For: Brooklyn Law School, Adjunct Professor

1997 – 2012

“How Yonkers Home Rule Case Applies to Yankee Stadium Ballot Challenge”

For: New York Law Journal, pg. 1

October 5, 1998

“When Does Government Regulation Go “Too Far”?,” co-author

For: VI Fordham Env. Law J. 565

1995

“Unraveling the Bundle of Rights in Takings Jurisprudence,” co-author

For: New York Law Journal

November 28, 1994

“The New Nexus in the Regulatory Taking Arena,” co-author

For: New York Law Journal, pg. 1

July 12, 1994

“Local Government Redistricting in New York: Where Does the Power Repose?,” co-author

For: 57 Bklyn. L.R. 1049

1992

“Municipal Election Districts – Legal Issues and Authority, Municipal Regulation of Public Soliciting, and Model Municipal Procurement Regulations”

For: New Mexico Municipal League

1980-1988

Zoning and SEQRA Challenges to Large Scale Development Project Dismissed for Lack of Standing

On November 4, 2021, Justice St. George of the New York State Supreme Court issued two identical decisions denying standing to the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, the Group for the East End, a NYS Assembly ...

Court Denies Motion to Dismiss $100 Million Lawsuit Against Southampton

In a precedent setting decision, DLV Quogue, LLC v. Town of Southampton (Index No. 606443/2018), New York State Supreme Court Justice Carmen Victoria St. George denied the Town of Southampton’s motion to dismiss claims brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of the Town ...

Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 1980, Order of the Barrister Award for Excellence in Appellate Advocacy; Member A.B.A. National Appellate Advocacy Competition; American Jurisprudence Award in Criminal Procedure

Hunter College, City University of New York, 51 credits toward Masters in Urban Planning, Scholarship Award for Outstanding Graduate Students

Colgate University, B.A., 1974, Regent’s Scholarship

New Mexico, 1981

New York, 1983

Tenth Circuit and N.M. District Court, 1984

U.S. Supreme Court, 1988

Southern & Eastern Districts of New York, 1993

Fifth Circuit, 1999

Third Circuit, 2003

Second Circuit, 2005

American Bar Association member

New York Bar Association member

New Mexico Bar Association member

Association of the Bar of the City of New York member (prior member of Land Use Committee)

New York County Lawyers Association

Zoning Advisory Council