Linda White Atkins

Linda White Atkins focuses her practice on helping clients across a diverse spectrum of industries achieve their business goals for real estate transactions, land use permitting, and local, state, and federal regulatory policy advocacy. Linda has served as Acting Legal Planner for the City of Bellevue, Washington, and has decades of experience navigating site development and project permitting challenges throughout the Puget Sound region, with a special focus on Eastside communities.

She has substantial experience assisting clients with water rights and agricultural lands management, and with natural resource impacts management under state and federal regulatory schemes related to infrastructure siting and development. Linda's broad background in commercial real estate deals and decades of experience in natural resources and land use permitting gives her a "big picture" view of the multiple factors that can complicate a project, and deep insight into crafting the best path to reach the desired goal.

Linda's many years of experience in engaging with local government and the public to permit complex and controversial projects makes her an effective communicator and advocate in public meetings and administrative land use hearings. She has represented telecommunications clients in complex and controversial land use permitting and entitlements matters for over 25 years.