Erin Burg Hupp

Overview

Erin Burg Hupp brings to the firm a combination of legal and city planning skills, which serve her practice in Meyers Nave’s Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure, Climate Change and Green Initiatives practice groups.

Erin advises public agencies on general municipal matters as well as transactional and regulatory land use  matters. As a member of the firm’s Climate Change and Green Initiatives Practice Group, Erin analyzes and develops strategies to address recent climate change laws such as AB 32, the California Climate Solutions Act, and SB 375, which affects transportation and housing planning.  She also advises municipal clients on a large array of issues from animal ordinances to plastic bag bans. 

Prior to joining Meyers Nave, Erin was a legal intern at Clarion Associates, a land use and real estate consulting firm. She was also a law clerk for Midwest Environmental Advocates, an environmental law nonprofit based in Madison, Wisconsin. During her tenure there, she co-authored citizen guides to Wisconsin land use law. Erin also worked as a planning extern at the Triangle J Council of Governments, where she assisted local governments and co-authored a report on the economic benefits of a regional open space network in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.

While in law school, Erin was a member of the 2008 Environmental Negotiation Holderness Moot Court Team and vice president of the Environmental Law Project. Her awards include the 2006 American Planning Association Daniel J. Curtin Jr. Fellowship, the 2006 Steven Whitesell Memorial Fund Grant and the 2005 Certificate of Appreciation from the North Carolina Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Erin is admitted to practice in all California State courts.

Presentations and Publications

  • Author, “Refining Green Building Regulations and Funding Green Buildings in Order to Achieve Greenhouse Gas Reductions,” The Urban Lawyer, Volume 42, No. 3, 2009
  • Author, “Recent Trend in Green Buildings Laws: Potential Preemption of Green Building and Whether Retrofitting Existing Buildings Will Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Save the Economy,” The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 41 No. 3, 2009
  • Co-author, “Sustainability” Chapter of the California Land Use Practice, a two-volume legal treatise published by Continuing Legal Education of the Bar (CEB), 2010
  • Co-author, “Rising to the ‘Promise’ of Transit Oriented Development,” World Jurist Conference, Kiev, Ukraine, 2009
  • Co-author, “Transit-Oriented Development: Reality or Chimera?” International Municipal Lawyers Association Mid-Year Seminar, Washington, DC, 2009
  • Team Lead, the Public Law Blawg (http://www.publiclawnews.com/)

Professional and Community Affiliations

  • Member, The State Bar of California
  • Co-Chair, Sustainable Committee for the State and Local Government Section of the American Bar Association
  • Member, Planning and Law Division of the National American Planning Association

Education

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law , JD, cum laude, 2008
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MA, City and Regional Planning, magna cum laude, 2008
  • University of Wisconsin at Madison, BS, International Relations and Environmental Studies, magna cum laude, 2002