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Mr. Aleshire has been practicing municipal law, environmental, redevelopment, franchising, municipal, and zoning and land use law since graduating from UCLA with a J.D. in 1975 and M.A. in urban planning in 1976. Mr. Aleshire graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University in 1972. Mr. Aleshire has been AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating process, which reflects the highest level of skill and integrity. He was named a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2009 and 2010. Mr. Aleshire’s life-long devotion to public service has been the result of his efforts to emulate his father, a city manager for 35 years for seven different cities.
Mr. Aleshire has served as City Attorney or Assistant City Attorney for 12 different cities, including Banning, Palm Springs, Irvine, Cerritos, Norwalk, Signal Hill, San Dimas, Lawndale, Irwindale, San Jacinto, Suisun City, Perris and the County of Los Angeles. He has had long stints as City Attorney at Palm Springs (15 years), Lawndale (17 years), and Irwindale (10 years). He has been City Attorney of Signal Hill since 1985, Banning since 2008, and Suisun City since . Cumulatively he has over 60 years of City Attorney service.
Mr. Aleshire has continued to specialize in redevelopment and housing law. In his early years, he represented the redevelopment or housing agencies of the cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver City, Monterey Park, Cerritos, and the County of Los Angeles. In the last decade, his work has been primarily with the agencies of Signal Hill, Palm Springs, Irwindale, Carson, and Bakersfield.
Major projects and programs Mr. Aleshire has accomplished during his career include:
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Creation of the Signal Hill Auto Center now approaching 50 acres with some 15 brands, and generating over $3M in annual sales taxes to the City.
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Development of the Signal Hill Town Center including big box users such as Costco and Home Depot, but also encompassing the community’s only market, Food-4-Less.
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Overcoming numerous issues in transforming the historic 1 billion barrel Signal Hill oil field, in continuous production for 75 years, with complex contamination issues, into a beautiful community with a vibrant local economy.
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Developing a Palm Springs power center with Lowes, Home Depot, and WalMart, located partially on a former municipal landfill site, and successfully defending the project from environmental challenges.
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Developing an Indian Gaming Casino in Palm Springs including negotiating a DDA with a tribal government and successfully defending a lawsuit by the California Attorney General.
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Reclamation of a 126-acre Irwindale mining pit and developing a 2.5 million square foot mixed use project through a development agreement with Trammel Crow (winner of a prestigious Gold Nugget Award).
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Negotiating a development and financing agreement for an $800 million dollar entertainment and mixed use project with Lennar on a 157-acre site on a former landfill (including a $100 million dollar site remediation program).
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Negotiating development agreements for 1000+ acre projects for hotel, golf course, and residential development and dealing with sensitive environmental and endangered species issues.
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Developing major public projects including expanding the Palm Springs Convention Center twice, a championship 36-hole golf course, sewer wastewater plant expansions, parking structures, several city halls and police stations, and numerous water reservoir and other water improvements.
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Master planning the Palm Springs Airport and undertaking numerous runway and terminal expansions including developing innovative passenger facility charge financing.
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Developing an innovative franchise program for the Town of Mammoth Lakes to facilitate underground delivery of gas to customers and requiring the franchisee to provide pipeline capacity to other suppliers.
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Overseeing Palm Springs’ municipalization of energy program to find a national non-Edison supplier of energy services and reduce customer charges by 15%.
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Negotiating lease agreements to privatize Palm Springs’ wastewater treatment plant with US Filter, a Fortune 500 company.
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Negotiating many innovative, award-winning affordable housing projects including in Signal Hill alone: A $9 million, 40-unit, affordable moderate income single family detached project; and a $20 million, 92-unit, low and very low income family project, including a park, child care center and police substation. (This last project, Las Brisas, won the League of California Cities’ prestigious Helen Putman award in 2006).
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Overseeing a long term program for Irwindale to require reclamation of multiple 100+ acre mining pits with depths of over 300 feet, and achieving development agreements providing for reclamation, payment of the highest mining taxes in the state, and infrastructure development.
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Forming and representing special purpose agencies, including community service districts and joint powers authorities.
He has been a speaker and authored various articles on municipal law including the subjects of municipal investment, takings, redevelopment, casino gaming, mixed use development and others, and served as Adjunct Professor of Municipal Law at Southwestern University.
Public Offices
City Attorney & Redevelopment Agency Counsel
Banning (2008-present)
Irwindale (1996-2003; 2007)
Lawndale (1983-95)
Palm Springs (1990-2005)
Perris (2000-02)
San Jacinto (1998-2000)
Signal Hill (1985-present)
Redevelopment Agency Counsel
Carson (2003-06)
Bakersfield Special Counsel (2008-present)
Housing Agency Counsel
Irwindale (1996-2003; 2006-07)
Palm Springs (1990-2005)
Signal Hill (1985-present)
General Counsel
Joint Power Employee Benefit Authority (1987-98)
Rossmoor Community Services District (1987-90)
Spring St. Corridor Joint Powers Authority (1995-98)
Assistant City Attorney
Irvine (1986-89)
Cerritos (1978-85)
Norwalk (1978-85)
San Dimas (1978-85)
Assistant Counsel
Cerritos Redevelopment Agency (1978-85)
Norwalk Redevelopment Agency (1983-85)
Norwalk Housing Agency (1978-85)
San Dimas Redevelopment Agency (1978-85)
Monterey Park Redevelopment Agency (1981-85)
LA County Housing Authority (1982-85)
LA Redevelopment Agency (1976-77)
Honors
AV® Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rated
Southern California Super Lawyers 2009, 2010
Affiliations
American Planning Association
LA County City Attorney’s Association
Orange County City Attorney’s Association
Adjunct Professor of Law
Southwestern University Law School (1980-84)
Boy Scout Troop 645, Scoutmaster (1995-present)
Admissions
State Bar of California
US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
US District Court, Central District of CA
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