DRAYTON GRANT

CURRENT POSITION:

Partner, Grant & Lyons, LLP. Founded 1994. Private law practice dedicated to land use, zoning, environmental and real estate law.

EXPERIENCE:

1987-Present In private practice

Representing project sponsors before regulatory agencies and in administrative enforcement matters, representing local governments at the county, city, town and village level in permit and contamination matters, representing environmental groups and landowner groups in state and local permit reviews, and representing individuals harmed by toxic exposure. Appealing from agency decisions.

1987-1998 Adjunct Professor of Environmental Law

Brooklyn Law School 1987-1998. I taught seminars and survey courses to upper level law school students in environmental law.

Bard College Master of Science in Environmental Studies Program, I taught seminars in environmental law to graduate students 1988-1996.

Frequent lecturer on environmental topics.

1987-1990 Member

New York State Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board

Served as one member of a five member panel reviewing appeals from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wetlands decisions, both as to the existence of the wetlands and as to the hardship of the applicants.

1983-1987 Deputy Commissioner

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Served as senior New York State policymaker for hazardous waste, solid waste, water supply and contamination, and air contamination, public lands, land use, mining, pesticides. Served also as member of top agency group addressing all environmental issues confronting the State.

1979-1982 Assistant Counsel for Land Use

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

1975-1979 Associate - litigation

Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine

AFFILIATIONS:

Executive Committee, New York State Bar Association, Environmental Law Section

Co-Chair, Committee on Coastal Processes, New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Section

Vice President, Winnakee Land Trust

Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Member, Dutchess County Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Chair, Burger Hill Park Committee

Member, Board of Directors, Northern Dutchess Hospital

Member of the Bar of the State of New York

Admitted in the First Department and the Southern District of New York

Member, Rhinebeck Rotary

EDUCATION:

Smith College BA English 1970

Brooklyn Law School JD 1975 cum laude

Second Circuit Editor of the Law Review

PAST AFFILIATIONS:

President, Rhinebeck Rotary

President, Hudson River Heritage, Inc.

Chair, Town of Rhinebeck Conservation Advisory Council

Vice President, Board of Directors, Westover School

Secretary, Board of Directors, Hudsonia, Ltd.

Director, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

Director, Wilderstein Preservation

Co-Chair, Committee on Minority Recruitment, New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Section Member, Committee on Environmental Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Member, Committee on Nuclear Technology and Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Member, Board of Directors Center for Women in Government

Member, Rhinebeck Tercentenary Committee

Member, Rhinebeck Committee on Town-Village Cooperation

Secretary, Board of Trustees, St. John the Evangelist

PUBLICATIONS:

Wind Power Projects’ Selected Challenges, Environmental Law Section Fall Meeting, Cooperstown, New York, October 14, 2006

What is Community Character?, New York State Bar Association New York Environmental Lawyer, Winter 2006

Conflicts of Interest for Planning Board Members, Planning News, New York Planning Federations, Spring 2004 and Fall 2004

Pitfalls of Fees, New York Planning Federation, September, 2004

Consultant Fee Funding For Planning and Zoning Boards, SEQRA 25th Anniversary Conference, Albany Law School, March 2001.

Paying Consultants Through Fees, Not Escrow Accounts, Planning News. New York Planning Federation, Summer 2000.

Expansive Rise in Legal Codes Marks the Century, Poughkeepsie Journal, October 10, 1999.

Symposium, Public Trust Doctrine in New York: Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club, NY Environmental Lawyer, Summer 1999.

The Self-Audit Privilege - A Survey, American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, August, 1997.

Cellular Telephone Antenna Towers, Westchester Municipal Planning Federation, April 1996

Public Trust Doctrine, NY Environmental Law Series, 1996.

Wetlands Update, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n Envtl. L. Sec. J., Aug. 1992, at 12.

Fractured Federalism: Proposed Amendments For Emergency Planning at Nuclear Power Plants, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n Envtl. L. Sec. J., Sept. 1987, at 5.

New Regulations For Siting and Disposal Technologies For Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n Envtl. L. Sec. J., Sept. 1987, at 12.

Contemplating Certified Environmental Auditors, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n Envtl. L. Sec. J., Jan. 1987, at 13.

DEC Developments: A Plan and a List, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n Envtl. L. Sec. J., Mar. 1986, at 10.

Year of New York's Forest Preserve Centennial, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n Envtl. L. Sec. J., Dec. 1984 at 5.

Easing Environmental Standards After Some Companies Have Met Them: A Rum Deal, N.Y. St. B. Ass'n, Envtl. L. Sec. J., Mar. 1983, at 1.