Overview

Joe Hoffman is a partner in the Municipal and Land Development Group at Goodmans.
Joe specializes in municipal law with a focus on representing private sector clients throughout Ontario. Joe primarily represents real estate developers with planning applications for in-fill intensification projects in urban settings. Joe’s work encompasses a wide range of matters arising in the context of land development, including official plan and zoning by-law amendment applications, site plan applications, minor variance approvals, heritage issues, inclusionary zoning, parkland conveyances to municipalities and cash-in-lieu of parkland, development charges, and urban boundary expansion matters.
Joe appears regularly before administrative tribunals and municipal authorities, including the Ontario Land Tribunal, the Toronto Local Appeal Body, the Committee of Adjustment, and City Councils throughout Ontario. Joe has also appeared before the Ontario Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Joe has been recognized as a leading lawyer by various publications including The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as consistently recommended in the area of real estate - property development, The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of municipal law, and featured in the Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure.
Joe sits on the Government Relations Committee of NAIOP. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and volunteers in high school classrooms throughout Toronto as part of UrbanPlan, a project-based learning curriculum bringing together disciplines such as economics, city government, real estate and urban planning. Joe is also the recipient of the Alumni Mentor of the Year from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Practice Areas

• Administrative Law
• Municipal Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2013 (ON)