Jacques B. DePuy

Jacques DePuy represents a wide range of clients in matters involving land use and zoning, real property assessment appeals and real estate acquisition and development in the District of Columbia. Mr. DePuy’s extensive land use practice involves representation of major developers, nonprofit associations, labor unions, private schools, churches, health care facilities, child development centers, charter schools and others. In representing such clients, Mr. DePuy advocates their interests in proceedings before numerous District of Columbia and federal government agencies, including the Zoning Commission, Board of Zoning Adjustment, Council of the District of Columbia, Historic Preservation Review Board, Mayor’s Agent for Historic Preservation, National Capital Planning Commission and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. Mr. DePuy’s real property assessment appeal practice involves advocacy on behalf of property owners with the Office of Tax and Revenue, the Board of Real Property Assessments and Appeals and D.C. Superior Court. In addition to land use and assessment appeals, Mr. DePuy’s practice includes the drafting and negotiation of real property acquisition and sale agreements, easements, zoning development rights transfers, combined lot development agreements, declarations of covenants and similar matters.

Representative Matters
Mr. DePuy provides land use counsel to developers, property owners, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, private schools, churches and many other institutions and entities. He is currently engaged on behalf of Forest City Washington and a joint venture consisting of The Wilkes Company and Quadrangle Development Corporation, each of which is developing large, multi-phased, mixed-use development projects in emerging neighborhoods in the District of Columbia. He recently represented St. Coletta School in a major zoning proceeding involving the development of an educational facility on Capitol Hill that serves students with autism, mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. Mr. DePuy is currently providing or has recently provided land use services to Washington International School, CSX Realty, Hyatt Hotels, Brookfield Properties, Stanton/EastBanc, Chapman Development, Comcast, Capitol Hill Day School, Public Welfare Foundation and others.

Noteworthy
Mr. DePuy is the co-author of the article "Bringing Democracy to the Nation’s Last Colony: The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act", The American University Law Review, Vol. 24, Spring, 1975. Mr. DePuy has been an Instructor with the Graduate REALTOR® Institute. He acted as Legislative Assistant to the Honorable Brock Adams, U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1973 and was Subcommittee Counsel of the District of Columbia Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1973 and 1974. Mr. DePuy has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association – Nation’s Capital Affiliate.