Private equity firm acquires 146 acres in Phoenix West Valley

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Quyp Development Plans 90 single-family homes on one site, a golf course occupies the other. Builder Private equity firm Virtua Partners announced Wednesday that it has acquired two properties totaling 146 acres located in the West Valley of Phoenix. Bennett Meadows is a 28 acre infill residential property located on the northwest corner of Sarival Avenue …

Regulatory overkill is driving biggest Canada home builder south

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Mattamy Homes Builder Oh Canada! A mix of utopian idealism and bureaucratic buffoonery is driving the country’s largest home builder south of the border. Bloomberg.com reports: Mattamy Homes Ltd., North-America’s largest private residential homebuilder, is boosting investments in the U.S. as regulatory excess sends land prices — and frustration — skyrocketing in Ontario, chief executive officer Peter …

Scottsdale City Council approves legal protest text amendment; ‘wise’ decision, says Thomas Galvin, land-use, regulatory and water attorney at Rose Law Group

Scottsdale Independent In response to how legal protests are addressed when filed by neighboring property owners, Scottsdale City Council adopted an ordinance amending the text approving the zoning ordinance. Approved upon consent at a Dec. 5 meeting, the zoning ordinance outlines rules and requirements for the application of a legal protest by property owners near a rezoning request, according to …

Getting educated – Equine Science

At Scottsdale Community College By Adam M. Trenk, Esq. A strong education, either formally in the classroom or informally through real-world experience, is the only reliable predictor of a person’s success. Working in the equestrian industry is no different. The greater your wealth of experiences and knowledge working with and around horses, the more likely you are to achieve your …

Real Estate Q & A: What can a property owner do if a neighbor blocks an easement?

Adam D. Martinez | Chairman of Real Estate Litigation Department Question:  I own a property in Marana, Arizona, which includes a small airplane hangar, and an easement for “existing roads,” one of which I have used for many years as a private airstrip for taking off and landing small aircraft. The easement passes through my neighbor’s property on both sides. Recently, …

Trump, real estate investors get late-added perk in tax bill; Rose Law Group Partner and Transactional Dept. Director, Cameron Carter, comments

Late revision supplies break based on investments in property Corker, who dropped opposition, says he wasn’t aware of change By Lynnly Browning and Benjamin Bain | Bloomberg Lawmakers scrambling to lock up Republican support for the tax reform bill added a complicated provision late in the process — one that would provide a multimillion-dollar windfall to real estate investors such …

The key to their children’s survival is medical cannabis; but it’s a bigger issue than marijuana says Laura Bianchi, partner and director Cannabis Department

By Kate Masters | The Frederick News-Post Raina Tilghman had her first seizure when she was just weeks old, on the day of her two-month check-up with the family pediatrician. The night before, the little girl had been up for hours with the hiccups, said her mother, Carey, who lives with Raina, her husband, Matt, and their two other children …

Montgomery drops challenge to Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act; Laura A. Bianchi, partner and director, Rose Law Group Cannabis Department applauds decision

By Arizona Daily Independent Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery has decided not to continue challenging the most recent ruling upholding Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act, as the deadline of December 11 to seek review by the United States Supreme Court has passed. In 2016, the Arizona Court of Appeals found in favor of a Sun City medical marijuana dispensary, ruling that …

Weed on high? GOP lawmaker seeks to ban medical marijuana ads on billboards; Laura A. Bianchi, partner and director, Rose Law Group Cannabis Department, comments

By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times The way Sen. David Farnsworth sees it, the decision by voters to legalize the sale of marijuana for medical uses does not mean they get to promote it. So the Mesa Republican has introduced legislation that would ban billboard advertising for the drug in places they’re most likely to …

Men feeling they are being shortchanged leads to shared parenting laws; Kaine Fisher, director Family Law Dept., comments

By Michael Alison Chandler | The Washington Post The every-other-weekend dad, born from two generations of soaring divorce rates, was once a conventional part of American culture. In recent years, more couples have been agreeing to parent after divorce as they did in marriage: collaboratively. Now lawmakers are accelerating this trend toward co-parenting, with legislatures in more than 20 states …