Bissell Roberts
Attorney at Bissell Roberts, PLLC
8610 Westover Drive
Prospect, KY 40059
bissellkylaw@gmail.com
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Specializing in Land Use Zoning Condemnation Mediation
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Land Use & Zoning
Land use and zoning attorneys assist clients in navigating typically complex local and state laws concerning real estate acquisition, development, zoning, leasing and environmental laws regarding the proposed use of private property. This involves client presentations in “trial type hearings” before local planning commissions and local zoning boards as well as presentations to cities and counties in land use cases involving conditional use permits, waivers/variances, major and minor subdivisions and rezoning.
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Condemnation
Eminent Domain or condemnation involves the taking of private property for a “public use” by the State of Kentucky, a public utility, or other entity authorized by state law to condemn property under Kentucky’s Eminent Domain Act.
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Mediation
Mediation is an informal and voluntary process often involving business/contract disputes, labor disputes and Court cases where a neutral third-party trained Mediator facilitates settlements of disputes involving two or more parties.
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J. Bissell Roberts
Bissell specializes in land use law, zoning, eminent domain, and mediation. He was a member of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky, where he obtained a degree in economics in 1967. In 1971 he graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, where he was Business Editor of the Virginia Law Weekly. Bissell has over 50 years of experience as a Louisville, Kentucky based trial lawyer, trying jury and non-jury cases in state and federal courts across Kentucky and practicing before the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the Kentucky Supreme Court, the Sixth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court.
Bissell has served since 2020 as a Board Member of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, and as a Member of the Board of the Kentucky Crime Victims Compensation Board. Bissell previously served as a Special Justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court in 1997. In 2020 he was appointed as a member of the Transition Team for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet by Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.
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