Rebecca Kert
As a former Senior Assistant City Attorney for Tampa, and Assistant County Attorney for Hillsborough County, Rebecca has extensive experience as a local government lawyer specializing in land use and zoning matters, land development, and general municipal law.
As Senior Assistant City Attorney, Rebecca was leader of the Land Use Section for the City of Tampa where she handled a wide range of land use and zoning matters, including Developments of Regional Impact, comprehensive plan amendments, development agreements, transportation (including matters related to impact and mobility fees), variances, vacating, alcoholic beverage permitting, annexations, historic preservation, tree regulation, billboards and signs, sunshine law issues, and code enforcement. Rebecca has been involved in multiple amendments to the Land Development Code, most recently drafted the City’s regulations for small wireless facilities.
Rebecca is Board certified by the Florida Bar in City, County, and Local Government Law and been a guest lecturer at Stetson University College of Law and WMU-Cooley Law School.
Practice Focus:
- City, County, and Local Government Law
- Land Use and Zoning
- Real Estate and Land Development
- Governmental Affairs
Licensed to Practice Law:
- Florida
Bar Seminars:
- 2006 29th Annual Local Government Law in Florida “Hot Topics in First Amendment Law – Billboards, Regulation of Nudity and the Public Forum Doctrine”
- 2011 34th Annual Local Government Law In Florida “Working with Planning and Zoning Staff – A View from the Inside”
- 2012 Florida Bar Media and the Law Seminar – Panel Discussion on Media and the Republican National Convention
- 2012 35th Annual Local Government Law in Florida “The Republican National Convention is Coming to Town – Lessons We Can All Learn”
- 2017 “Local Government Law,” CLE International – Panel Discussion
- 2018 First Annual Environmental and Land Use Law Conference – Panel Discussion
- 2019 Second Annual Environmental and Land Use Law Conference – Panel Discussion
Education:
- University of Florida College of Law (J.D. / 1995 cum laude)
- Davidson College (B.A. / Political Science / 1992)