Jesse

Last Name
Schomer
Email
jschomer@daintorpy.com
Consultant Phone
Cell Phone
Agency
Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner P.C.
Agency Description
Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. is the premier commercial real estate boutique law firm in Massachusetts. We counsel owners, developers, investors, tenants, and managers of commercial real estate. Our attorneys advise clients on site selection, due diligence, acquisition, financing, joint venture formation, zoning, permitting and development, environmental and clean energy issues, leasing, disposition, and risk management and litigation. As we like to say, we work with our clients from concept through occupancy.
Address

DAIN TORPY
175 Federal Street, Suite 1500
Boston, 02110
United States

Service Area
Massachusetts
Housing Development
Affordable Homeownership Development
Elderly Housing Housing
Rental Development
Special Needs Housing
Elderly Housing
Assisted Living Housing
Program Services
Land Use Planning & Zoning
Program Support
Real Estate Law
Business & Strategic Planning
Other Expertise
My legal practice focuses on Massachusetts real estate development, land use, and zoning/permitting. I primarily represent developers, entrepreneurs, and landowners in the context of residential and commercial land use permitting, development, and construction.

My primary specialization is the permitting and development of affordable housing under Chapter 40B, Mass. General Laws. In this field, I am one of a handful of go-to attorneys in with the specialized knowledge, experience, and knowhow to guide a Chapter 40B development from concept to shovels in the ground, with a recent development portfolio of approved projects throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Greater Boston. I previously worked under my mentor, Theodore C. Regnante, Esq. – the unofficial Dean of Chapter 40B.

In addition, I also work in the following areas:
• Zoning/permitting under MGL Ch. 40A and the Boston Zoning Code
• Subdivision Control Law and Approval-Not-Required (ANR) permitting
• Site Plan Review/MBTA Communities permitting
• Environmental permitting (wetlands protection, public waterways, septic/sewer, etc.)
• Real estate/land use rights (title, easements, adverse possession, etc.)
• Registered Land matters, S-Cases, & land de-registration
• Municipal licensing
• Private client services: conveyancing, land use agreements, corporate structuring, condominium matters, development team formation, etc.

In addition to my permitting practice, I am an experienced real estate litigator specializing in zoning/permitting appeals, land use and title disputes, declaratory judgment actions, adverse possession, historical rights of way, and registered land matters.

I am a commentator for Landlaw’s Massachusetts Housing Appeals Committee Reporter (MHACR), Co-Chair of the Affordable Housing Section of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts (REBA), and Special Town Counsel to the Town of Saugus, MA.

I am licensed to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey.