Amber Knapp

Amber is an associate in the Government Relations department and planner on the Land Development Solutions team, with a BA in Urban Economic Development from Cleveland State University. She is the Vice Chair for AAEDs Emerging Leaders Committee and serves on the Paradise Valley Village Planning Committee. She has spent her career working on behalf of private development interests of all categories on land use issues and entitlements. 

Amber has extensive experience with rezoning, general and comprehensive plan amendments, real estate land use due diligence, variances, use permits, design review, site plan review, public outreach, consensus building, code updates, text amendments, public sector planning, public meetings and presentations.  She is also adept at using GIS, and is passionate about public participation and community outreach efforts. 

Amber effectively collaborates and provides management services coordinating between engineering firms, architects, and land-use attorneys.  She handles a diverse portfolio of projects from small-scale residential and master-planned communities to commercial and industrial developments.

In The News

Pinal Partnership panel tackles affordable housing, with Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group, moderating the discussion

By Rofida Khairalla | Pinal Central QUEEN CREEK — Who are the people who need affordable housing? And how are developers hoping to help address a shortage facing thousands of Arizonans? Those were some of the questions that a panel of developers attempted to address at the monthly meeting of Pinal Partnership on Friday. The event was hosted at Schnepf

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Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group, comments on: Proposed Scottsdale law that allows for minimal new apartments

By J. Graber | Scottsdale Independent Scottsdale’s proposed new state-mandated ordinance designed to create more affordable housing in the city will only likely yield about 126 new apartments. After several public hearings on the matter, the city’s planning commission voted 6-1 during its Oct. 23 meeting to recommend the law to the city council for final approval sometime in November.

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Paul Coble, chair of Rose Law Group’s AI, intellectual property, and technology law department, comments on: Signs of perpetuating historic biases emerge as AI takes the helm of decision making

By Paige Gross | AZ Mirror In a recent study evaluating how chatbots make loan suggestions for mortgage applications, researchers at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University found something stark: there was clear racial bias at play. With 6,000 sample loan applications based on data from the 2022 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, the chatbots recommended denials for more Black applicants than identical white counterparts. They

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