Cynthia Macdougall
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Band 2 : Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
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About
Provided by Cynthia Macdougall
Practice Areas
Senior counsel of the firm’s Toronto office and head of McCarthy Tetrault’s Municipal Group in Toronto. She is one of the most experienced and successful municipal approval lawyers in Ontario. Cynthia focuses on the areas of municipal and land use planning law, specifically as it relates to infrastructure and complex multi-phase development projects, often with challenging approval constraints and environmental issues. She practises extensively in front of the Ontario Land Tribunal, Committees of Adjustment, and municipal Council’s and committees, representing institutions, private developers and non-profit organizations. Cynthia works with members of city councils and senior governmental staff at the municipal, provincial and federal levels government, particularly in the GTA Cynthia provides advice on major infrastructure projects in Ontario, and has been the municipal lawyer on many landmark and precedent setting projects across the GTA. She is the original author of the PLAA Table for Ontario P3 projects.
Career
Ontario Bar, 1986
Publications
Municipal Section, Canadian Bar Association (Ontario). She is past-chair of the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation, past-president and past-director of the Neighbourhood Information Post, as well as a former director of the Wood Green Community Centre, the Scarborough Distress Centre and Sistering.
Chambers Review
Canada
Cynthia Macdougall heads the firm's municipal group in Toronto. She routinely represents clients before the relevant land use and planning tribunals and committees, in addition to advising public bodies on development projects.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Cynthia Macdougall is very experienced,fair, practical and always provides thoughtful advice."
"Cynthia Macdougall is who I count on for all my most difficult legal matters. I trust nobody's skill better than hers."
"Cynthia Macdougall provides an excellent service and is a pleasure to work with. She has deep and sophisticated understanding of land use planning and related development matters."
"Cynthia Macdougall is a highly experienced and long-serving practitioner in land use planning."
"Cynthia Macdougall is very experienced,fair, practical and always provides thoughtful advice."
"Cynthia Macdougall is who I count on for all my most difficult legal matters. I trust nobody's skill better than hers."
"Cynthia Macdougall provides an excellent service and is a pleasure to work with. She has deep and sophisticated understanding of land use planning and related development matters."
"Cynthia Macdougall is a highly experienced and long-serving practitioner in land use planning."
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