Bio

Lucia Chiocchio is a Partner at the firm, Chair of the firm’s Land Use, Zoning & Development Practice group and Vice-Chair of the firm’s Telecommunications Practice group. She concentrates her practice in zoning and energy law, with an emphasis on telecommunications. Her background in environmental engineering allows her to integrate technical experience into her representation of landowners, developers and the telecommunications industry. She uses her multi-disciplinary experience and extensive knowledge to manage consultants and formulate approaches to successfully advance projects through complex and sometimes controversial permitting and approval processes. For a major wireless carrier company, Lucia successfully secured state agency permits and local municipal approvals for a number of various controversial infrastructure projects. As part of a project team for a national drug store retail chain, she was instrumental in obtaining entitlements to assist the client in meeting its development goals for several projects. Lucia’s representation of residential clients has allowed them to move forward with their plans and realize a return on their real estate investments. Lucia has a proven record of developing strategies to achieve client goals and avert litigation. When litigation is inevitable, her strategies result in a sound record. She regularly appears before municipal and state boards, commissions and agencies. She frequently lectures at Continuing Legal Education Seminars on land use and zoning issues. Prior to becoming an attorney, Lucia had a successful engineering career where she served as project management for several utility clients. The various projects she administered included energy efficiency rebates programs, water / wastewater treatment facility operations and management and telecommunications design.