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Tarquin Preziosi

Partner

Areas of Practice

  • Municipal Law
  • Land Use
  • Transactional Law
  • Writs and Appeals
  • Employment Law

Education

  • J.D., University of California, College of Law, San Francisco, 1998, Law Review
  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993

Admissions

  • Supreme Court of California
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and all District Courts of California

Professional Affiliations

  • State Bar of California
  • League of California Cities Cannabis Regulation Committee
  • City Attorney Association of San Diego County

Mr. Preziosi serves as Assistant City Attorney for the City of Costa Mesa, General Counsel to the Rossmoor Community Services District, and Deputy City Attorney for a number of other cities represented by the Firm. Mr. Preziosi has previously served as City Attorney for the City of Encinitas and General Counsel to the San Dieguito Water District. His practice is exclusively devoted to the representation of cities, districts, other public entities, and the Firm’s law enforcement clients. He is knowledgeable in most areas of municipal law and regularly advises city councils, boards, commissions, and department heads on a variety of matters. His particular areas of emphasis include land use, CEQA, the Coastal Act, federal fair housing laws, cannabis regulation, the Public Records Act, the Political Reform Act, elections, personnel matters, and laws pertaining to special districts. As a litigator he defends public entities in CEQA, Public Records Act, land use, fair housing, and other cases at the trial and appellate level and represents the firm’s clients in HUD and DOJ discrimination complaints. Mr. Preziosi is the firm’s subject matter expert on the state and federal laws relating to group and sober living homes.

Mr. Preziosi currently serves on the Brown Act and Cannabis Regulation committees of the California League of Cities. His prior service to the League includes the Municipal Law Institute (2014-2015), Chapter Chair of the Municipal Law Handbook (2010 and 2014 eds.) and as an appointee to the Public Safety Policy Committee (2009-2011). Mr. Preziosi also served as Chair of the Legal Advisors Section (Southern Division) of the California Peace Officers Association (2014 to 2018). In addition, Mr. Preziosi served as a Planning Commissioner for the City of Dana Point (2011 to 2013).

Mr. Preziosi graduated from the University of California, College of the Law San Francisco (Hastings) in 1998 where he was Senior Articles Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with Departmental Honors.

Mr. Preziosi serves as General Counsel to the Rossmoor Community Services District, Assistant City Attorney for the Cities of Costa Mesa and Fullerton and deputy city attorney for a number of other cities represented by the firm. His practice is exclusively devoted to the representation of cities, other public entities and the firm’s law enforcement clients. He is knowledgeable in most areas of municipal law, and regularly advises city councils, boards, commissions and department heads on a variety of matters. His particular areas of emphasis include land use, CEQA, the Coastal Act, federal fair housing laws, cannabis regulation, the Public Records Act, the Political Reform Act, elections, personnel matters and laws pertaining to special districts. As a litigator he defends public entities in CEQA, Public Records Act, land use, fair housing and other cases at the trial and appellate level, and represents the firm’s clients in HUD and DOJ discrimination complaints. Mr. Preziosi is the firm’s subject matter expert on the state and federal laws relating to group and sober living homes.

Mr. Preziosi currently serves on the Cannabis Regulation Committee of the California League of Cities. His prior service to the League includes the Municipal Law Institute (2014-2015), Chapter Chair of the Municipal Law Handbook (2010 and 2014 eds.) and as an appointee to the Public Safety Policy Committee (2009-2011). Mr. Preziosi also served as Chair of the Legal Advisors Section (southern division) of the California Peace Officers Association (2014 to 2018). In addition, Mr. Preziosi served as a planning commissioner for the City of Dana Point (2011 to 2013).

Mr. Preziosi graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1998 where he was Senior Articles Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with Departmental Honors.