Adam U. Lindgren

Overview

Adam Lindgren is the Managing Principal of Meyers Nave’s Sacramento office and serves as the City Attorney for the City of Rancho Cordova, and is special counsel to the cities of Fresno, Sacramento, Atwater, Livingston, as well as the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Fresno, and other districts and agencies. Adam has extensive experience in all aspects of municipal law, with particular qualifications in complex land use and development projects.

His recent major projects include processing CEQA documents for a major expansion of the Fresno Chaffee Zoo; preparing a development agreement for a major community hospital in downtown Ventura; acquiring land use approval for a Super Target and Wal-Mart in Atwater; and advising the City of Sacramento on contracts concerning the Sacramento Kings NBA Team and the Power Balance Arena. Adam is experienced in processing comprehensive general plan updates, preparing CEQA documents for mixed-use developments, processing annexations, preparing complex subdivision map approvals, negotiating development agreements for large-scale planned unit projects and advising clients regarding development impact fees.

Adam is the primary author and co-managing editor of a leading comprehensive publication on land use law, California Land Use Practice, published by Continuing Education of the Bar in 2006 and updated annually. He has written and lectured extensively on a wide array of land use and municipal law topics, including the Subdivision Map Act, development agreements, the Brown Act, conflicts of interest, Proposition 218, takings and exactions, zoning, district formation, the Coastal Act and geologic hazard abatement districts, and ethics. He speaks frequently around the State for groups including the League of California Cities, Continuing Education of the State Bar, the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions, the Special Districts Association and Lorman Education Services.

Adam began his legal career in Washington, D.C. as a Legislative Assistant to a member of the United States House of Representatives. On Capitol Hill, Adam focused on land use, environmental and local government issues. Prior to joining Meyers Nave, Adam worked as a land use attorney at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown and Enersen in the practice of land use and municipal law.