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JustLaws President Steve Masters
to Participate in White House Briefing on the President's Climate Change and Sustainability Agenda
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Philadelphia, July 23, 2015
 President Steve Masters, Esquire will join a select group of business leaders from across the nation for a briefing sponsored by the White House Business Council and Business Forward to be held today at the White House.
The briefing will feature senior Administrative officials from the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the White House.
Masters, the Vice-Chair and Policy Chair of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, plans to discuss the proposed fossil fuel energy hub with these officials and explore ways the federal government can spur investments in green energy businesses to transform Philadelphia's local energy economy.
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Zoning Victory for Bar Hygge!
After the developers of a new brewpub in Fairmount were refused a zoning permit by L+I in a CMX-2 district which allows restaurants and artisan industrial uses, they turned to .
The City's new zoning code doesn't define artisan industrial uses and the zoning examiner had issued a zoning refusal on the basis that the proposed craft brewery was a light industrial use prohibited in a CMX-2 district.
successfully persuaded L+I to reverse its denial and issue a zoning permit as of right, by convincing L+I that craft breweries are in fact artisan industrial uses which are permitted in CMX-2 districts.
Our successful representation saved the client the expense, delay and uncertainty of an appeal to the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
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Oral Argument Featured on PCN TV
attorney Steve Masters argued this case of first impression before an en banc panel of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on May 6, 2015.
This right to know appeal was brought by client Jihad Ali to challenge a City of Philadelphia open records policy which allows third parties claiming copyrights over public records in the hands of the City to severely limit the scope of the state's right to know law. Under this policy, the City will refuse to release copies of any public records which the third party copyright holder does not want to be released.
The video of the en banc court argument in the case of Jihad Ali v. Philadelphia City Planning Commission can be found here.
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