John W. Farrell

John W. Farrell has over 30 years of experience before county supervisors, planning commissions and boards of zoning appeals in matters of real estate development, land use and environmental regulation, including rezoning, site plan and wetlands approvals. He has represented landowners and developers in innumerable land use and environmental cases and controversies including comprehensive planning, infrastructure financing and bonding and microbial, asbestos and lead contamination issues. Among those represented are the applicant in the largest rezoning ever filed in Northern Virginia which included 26 million square feet of nonresidential space and 2,266 dwelling units. He also represented dozens of plaintiff/landowners in both the Fairfax County C & I and Loudoun County down-zoning litigation.

• Condominium and Community Association Law
• Environment Division
• Environmental
• Integrated Litigation
• Land Use

• Real Estate Acquisitions and Finance
• Real Estate Development
• Real Estate Tax Appeals

Massachusetts

Since 1977

Virginia

Since 1984

Principal

McCandlish & Lillard P.C.

Current

Boston College

A.B.

Honors: cum laude

New England Law | Boston

J.D.

Fairfax Bar Association

Member

Current

Virginia State Bar

Member, Environmental and Real Estate Sections

Current

Northern Virginia Building Industry Association

Member

Current

Northern Virginia Chapter National Association of Office & Industrial Parks

Member

Current

Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation

National President

1996 - 1998

Board of Directors, Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce

Member

1996 - 1998

Planning Commission, Town of Walpole, 1977-1980,

Chairman

1979 - 1980

Planning Commission, Town of Walpole, 1977-1980

Member

1977 - 1980

Author, Virginia Subdivision and Site Loan Law and Virginia Planning and Zoning Law (Co-Author with John H. Foote), 2008

Honored "The Legal Elite" ranking in Virginia Business, December 2000 and 2003 for Environmental Law and 2007 for Real Estate and Land Use Law

Lecturer, Virginia Law Foundation, Land Use Law

Reported Cases: Gwinn v. Collier, 247 Va. 479 (1994)

Reported Cases: Hrenchuk v. Walpole, 8 Mass. Appeal 949 (1979)

Reported Cases: Xspedius Management Co. of Virginia v. Stephan, 269 Va. 421 (2005)