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Harriet joined the Public Law Practice Group in 1983. Her practice focuses on public law, representing cities, special districts and joint powers agencies as city attorney, general counsel and special counsel. Areas of specialty include land use, environmental law, telecommunications law and cable television franchising, wastewater and municipal water, and public financing. Harriet has worked on air quality and transportation matters, including Clean Air Act and federal transportation requirements and funding; agreements between local governments and Indian tribes; and agricultural and habitat conservation easements.
In addition, Harriet has an active practice advising public agencies on land use approvals, including negotiation of development agreements, and compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act; public financing and Proposition 218 compliance. On the litigation side, she has represented public agencies on CEQA and Land use litigation, public financing and development impact fee challenges and Proposition 218 matters.
Serving as City Attorney of Davis since 1986, Harriet assisted in the development of the City’s agricultural mitigation ordinance for farmland and habitat preservation and in the development of the City’s Affordable Housing Ordinance and its new Middle Income/Work Force Housing Inclusionary Housing Ordinance.
Harriet serves as general counsel to the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Commission, which holds the cable television franchise for the county and the cities within the County of Sacramento. She also represents the City of Modesto on cable and telecommunications matters, as well as other local franchising entities. She has negotiated cable franchise renewals and transfers; franchises with cable overbuilders; and represented franchising entities in cable and wireless cellular tower litigation. | 