Jon E. Goetz

Jon Goetz is a Senior Of Counsel attorney at Redwood Public Law. He is a real estate, land use, and municipal attorney with over 35 years of experience in real estate transactions. He helps cities, counties, private developers, landowners, universities, community land trusts, and others with public-private development transactions including:

• Affordable Housing (For Sale and Rental)
• Density Bonus Law· University Workforce Housing
• Public-Private Development Projects
• Surplus Land Act· Prevailing Wages
• Economic Development
• Infrastructure Financing

Jon has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate transactions ― acquiring, financing, leasing and disposing of all forms of improved and unimproved real property, including public use properties. Jon has served as lead attorney for a multitude of real property matters, everything from market rate and affordable housing developments to the construction and rehabilitation of regional and neighborhood shopping centers, hotels, and health facilities.

He has advised on hundreds of housing developments and programs involving affordable and market rate housing units. His housing projects include a variety of housing types such as affordable rental developments, mixed income for-sale housing communities, master planned communities and mixed use and transit oriented developments, encompassing new construction, acquisition/rehabilitation and homebuyer programs. He has worked with universities on the development of a number of faculty and staff workforce housing projects throughout the state.

Jon has represented multifamily and single family housing developers in affordable housing transactions financed with federal tax credits, bond financing and other governmental financing. Jon advises developers on the use of the California density bonus law to obtain additional housing density, more favorable parking requirements, and other land use benefits in exchange for providing affordable and senior housing.

Jon also has considerable expertise in prevailing wages, advising public agencies and developers of residential, hotel, office, retail and shopping center projects on ways to structure public agency agreements to comply with, avoid or minimize prevailing wage obligations.

Jon’s client work involves close cooperation between private developers and public agency officials and staff, documenting purchase, lease, development and infrastructure agreements, and processing a variety of land use entitlements, environmental and CEQA approvals. In these matters, Jon focuses on quickly and efficiently resolving issues through negotiation and creative problem-solving.

Jon’s background includes being a shareholder at California-based statewide law firms, where he represented redevelopment agencies, private developers, universities and others in public-private real estate development projects, financings and other real property and public law matters.
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