Julie A. Tappendorf
Email: jtappendorf@ancelglink.com
Member: The American and Chicago Bar Associations, the American Planning Association, Chair of the American Bar Association's Historic Preservation and Architectural Design Controls Committee, admitted to practice in the Illinois state courts, Northern District of Illinois, and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Education: Illinois State University (B.A., 1985), University of Hawaii (J.D. 1997)
Practice Areas: Local Government, Land Use & Economic Development, Election law, and Zoning Litigation
Bio: Julie A. Tappendorf is a partner with Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni & Krafthefer, P.C. She focuses her practice primarily on local government, land use, and zoning matters. In representing the firm's local government and private sector clients, she is involved in transactional and litigation matters, including defending zoning and land use decisions, negotiating and drafting annexation and development agreements, drafting zoning, subdivision and other development regulations, and negotiating economic incentive agreements and special service area and TIF financing projects. She also advises the firm's local government clients on various ethical, state regulatory, election, and employment-related issues.
Ms. Tappendorf has published on a variety of land use and related matters, including the following:
- Bargaining for Development (Environmental Law Institute, July 2003)
- Agreements, Fees, and CIP (APA Education, 2005)
- "Hard Times for Real Estate Devleopers and the Impact on Municipalities", Illinois Municipal Review (March 2008)
- Various chapters in ALI-ABA's Land Use Institute publications (2006, 2007 and 2008)
- "From the Traditional to the More Creative: Incentives for Historic Preservations," in the book Current Trends and Practical Strategies in Land Use Law and Zoning (ABA, 2004)
- "Annexation Agreements and Development Agreements" in the book Trends in Land Use Law from A to Z: Adult Uses to Zoning (ABA, 2001)
- "Practical Guide to Drafting Architectural Design Regulations," The Municipal Lawyer (March/April 2003).
- "Architectural Design Regulations: What Can A Municipality Do to Protect Against Unattractive, Inappropriate, and Just Plain Ugly Structures?" 34 Urban Lawyer 961 (Fall 2002)
- "Unconstitutional Land Development Conditions and the Development Agreement Solution: Bargaining for Public Facilities after Nollan and Dolan," 51 Case Western Reserve Law Review 663 (Summer 2001)
Ms. Tappendorf is an Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, teaching the State and Local Government Law class. She is a Faculty Member of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association's (ALI-ABA) Land Use Institute. She is a frequent speaker at local and national conferences on local government and land use issues, such as federal land use claims, climate change, housing and the economy, sunshine laws, ethics, historic preservation, and architectural controls.
Ms. Tappendorf served on the editorial board of the University of Hawai'i Law Review while at the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law.
Prior to her law career, Ms. Tappendorf served for eight years in the United States Army, Military Intelligence Branch, as a Korean cryptologic-linguist.
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