Mr. Farrell has over 40 years of experience before county supervisors, planning commissions and boards of zoning appeals in matters of real estate development, land use and environmental regulation, including rezoning, site plans and wetlands approvals. He has represented landowners and developers in innumerable land use and environmental cases and controversies including comprehensive planning, infrastructure financing and bonding and microbial, asbestos and lead contamination issues. Among those he has represented are the applicant in the largest rezoning ever filed in Northern Virginia which included 26 million square feet of nonresidential space and 2,266 dwelling units. Mr. Farrell also represented dozens of plaintiff/landowners in the Fairfax County C & I and both Loudoun County down-zoning litigations. His experience on behalf of lenders and borrowers in transactions involving real estate acquisition, construction and development loans is extensive. This representation has included the acquisition, development, leasing and sale of mixed-use communities, condominium and residential projects, commercial and retail properties, the sale of REO, negotiation of workouts, and foreclosure of non-performing loans. As the former general counsel for the Fairfax County Democrats (“FCDC”), he has extensive expertise in Virginia election law, having represented FCDC during the 2013 Attorney General’s recount and in litigation versus the local and State Electoral Boards. During 2017 he represented one of the candidates in the House recounts and served as general counsel to the successful Lieutenant Governor’s campaign. Mr. Farrell’s environmental law and regulatory background is considerable and includes matters involving lender liability, CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Air, asbestos, lead, underground storage tanks, wetlands regulation and the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act.

Mr. Fox founded Fox Land Surveying, PC in 2015. He was initially registered as a land surveyor in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2007 and has worked with a wide variety of clients from developers and contractors, to real estate agents and homeowners. The primary goal of all Fox Land Surveying projects is to provide clients with a relationship in which they feel invested and empowered, as well as leaving them with the satisfaction that their expectations have been met and that their project has been completed on-time and on-budget. Fox Land Surveying, PC, can provide the following services in-house: Mortgage Surveys, ALTA/ACSM Surveys, Boundary Surveys, Topographic Surveys, Residential Site Plans, FEMA Evaluation Certificates, and Subdivision Plats. Additionally, through relationships with other local companies Fox Land Surveying, PC, can provide a full scope of engineering and development services including subdivision design and development.

Mr. Peeples focuses his practice in the areas of maritime and riparian law, construction law, worker’s compensation, and national security. A prolific author, he has written articles on Virginia aquaculture and maritime law, including the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, the Virginia Primary Sand Dune and Beaches Act, and the Virginia Tidal Wetlands Act. Mr. Peeples has been published in a number of professional journals on a variety of topics, ranging from Virginia real property law to the Anti-Terrorism Act. He is a member of the firm’s waterfront law practice group, and he writes blog articles regularly on the group’s website devoted to waterfront (riparian) property rights law, maritime and admiralty law, and environmental law. He has also taught CLE courses on the topic of riparian rights throughout the Commonwealth. Before joining the firm in 2018, Mr. Peeples retired from the U.S. Navy after 22 years of service as a pilot. He completed seven combat deployments and served as the Commanding Officer of a helicopter squadron. His last assignment was Lead Rotational Planner for the Joint Staff, where he provided strategic advice to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense.