Lawyer Profile
Calvin W. Lantz
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Calvin strategizes and leads teams of development approval professionals (including architects, land use planners and engineers); negotiates with senior municipal staff and politicians, government agencies and land owners; prepares and submits land use planning applications and provides strategic direction on the approval process; provides legal opinions on a broad range of municipal issues, zoning by-laws and land use policies; prepares land use planning instruments; and negotiates municipal and development agreements such as section 37 agreements, subdivision and site plan approval agreements, heritage easement agreements and agreements with conservations authorities.
Calvin contributes at municipal law and land use planning events and seminars, and participates regularly in professional organizations. He is a member of the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), Canadian Urban Institute (CUI), Urban Land Institute (ULI), the Hamilton-Halton Home Builders’ Association (HHHBA) and the Land Economics Society- Simcoe Chapter (LAI). He is also a member of the Law Society of Alberta, Canadian Bar Association (Municipal Law section of the Ontario Bar Association), the Law Society of Ontario, and a supporter of the LSUC Lawyers Feed the Hungry Initiative.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1998 (AB); 2000 (ON)