Robert T. Smart, Needham, MA Lawyer

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399 Chestnut Street • Needham, MA 02492 • Ph: 781-444-9344 • Fax: 781-449-0242 • bob@robertsmart.net

Robert Smart provides advice and representation before local Planning Boards, Conservation Commissions, Boards of Appeal, Boards of Selectmen and City Councils, and State agencies in Massachusetts. His work includes:

• Subdivision approvals
• Special permits
• Orders of conditions
• Appeals from grant or denial of building permits
• Zoning litigation
• Affordable housing under Chapter 40B
• Licensing
• Electric utility litigation
• Zoning opinion letters

Mr. Smart served as a member of the Needham Planning Board, twice as Chairman, from 1998 to 2007. He is a Co-Chairman of Needham’s Downtown Study Committee, which will recommend zoning and other changes to the Town Meeting in 2008. He represented the Town of Braintree’s Planning Board in litigation matters in the Norfolk Superior Court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He served as staff counsel to the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council from 1978 to 1981.

You are encouraged to contact Attorney Smart if you have zoning or permitting issues in the Metropolitan Boston area. One commercial real estate owner said:

“As a client of Robert Smart, Jr., I have found his counsel and representation to be a positive experience. Attorney Smart is easy to work with, fair and honest. His accessibility is another quality that makes him stand out from others in his profession.”

N.C., Needham, MA

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