Steven M. Elrod represents private and public sector clients on a broad range of real estate development, zoning and land use matters. He is the chairman of Holland & Knight's National Land Use and Government Team. He is actively involved in the representation of the firm's Chicago area municipal clients. As counsel to regional and local real estate developers, he also is actively engaged in large tract property acquisition and the governmental approvals and entitlements process.
Mr. Elrod also has extensive experience, from both the public and the private sector perspective, in the annexation and disconnection of real property, as well as the litigation of such land use and zoning issues as §1983 Civil Rights; eminent domain; takings and inverse condemnation; development impact fees; and procedural and substantive due process issues.