Christopher Murray offers more than twenty years of experience in land-use planning, entitlements, real estate development and environmental management services. He developed much of his expertise through service with an international environmental engineering company, a California-based developer and operator of large-volume solid waste and recycling facilities, and a downtown Los Angeles law firm. Murray is a registered lobbyist with the City of Los Angeles.
Murray is widely recognized for his expertise in land-use development and environmental regulatory compliance, including community and governmental relations and regulatory affairs. His land-use and environmental experience extends to all project-related entitlements. He assists clients in obtaining development permits and approvals and, as part of this process, devises strategies for obtaining support and approval from the community, elected representative(s) and various agencies. Through his close working relationships with staff and officials from local, regional and state planning and environmental-regulatory departments, as well as the community, Murray assists clients in a variety of development projects, including entitlements, environmental review and regulatory compliance.
Prior to joining Rosenheim & Associates, Inc., Murray worked for four years with the downtown Los Angeles law firm of Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava and MacCuish, LLP, as the director of regulatory affairs and land development. During his tenure there, he was responsible for preparing and processing land-use entitlements for a wide range of residential, commercial and industrial real-estate development projects throughout southern California. His duties included preparing and presenting planning and environmental studies, including land-use feasibility reports, to local, regional and state agencies.
Before working for Weston Benshoof, Murray worked for BLT Enterprises, a small California-based developer and operator of large-volume solid waste transfer stations and recycling facilities. He was responsible for obtaining and maintaining the land-use entitlements and environmental regulatory permits necessary for all of BLT’s transfer stations and material-recycling facilities in Burbank, Los Angeles, Oxnard and Sacramento.
Murray also worked as a project manager for Weston Solutions (formerly known as Roy F. Weston, Inc.), an international environmental engineering and consulting company. While at Weston, he was responsible for assisting clients with a wide range of land-use and environmental analysis, compliance and permitting.
Earlier in his career, Murray was an instructor at UCLA’s Engineering, Information Systems and Technical Management Extension Department. His course, Environmental Auditing, covered the fundamentals and techniques used to establish and conduct environmental audits and included perspectives from industry, regulatory agencies and consulting businesses.An alumnus of the University of Oregon, Murray graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a minor in statistics and research methods. He also attended the University of California, Los Angeles, Engineering, Information Systems and Technical Management Extension Program, where he did graduate studies in solid waste and environmental management.
