Peter M. Spoerl
Solo Practitioner- Senior Attorney
Peter Spoerl has 22 years of experience as an attorney advising on land use, planning, CEQA, redevelopment, and other areas of municipal law. He has served as transactional counsel for numerous institutional, civil infrastructure and economic development projects for public agencies, private developments and public-private partnerships throughout California. Mr. Spoerl has also developed expertise and wide-ranging experience with CEQA in the land use context. He has reviewed and drafted CEQA documents for numerous lead agencies, including Negative Declarations, Mitigated Negative Declarations, Environmental Impact Reports (“EIRs”), Subsequent and Supplemental EIRs and Addenda to EIRs, Statements of Overriding Considerations and findings, as well as accompanying legislation. Mr. Spoerl received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Washington in 1994, and completed advanced Graduate Work in German Studies at the University of California, Berkeley prior to receiving his J.D. from the University of California, San Francisco College of the Law in 2003. He worked as a City Attorney to several California municipalities, serving as Senior Deputy City Attorney in Land Use to the City of Oakland from 2017 to 2018, and as a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Napa from 2008 to 2017. Mr. Spoerl has served as a Chapter Editor for the California Municipal Law Handbook, and has made numerous presentations at Bay Area Bar Association and League of California Cities events.
