Marco A. Martinez

Marco A. Martinez is a partner in Best Best & Krieger LLP’s (BBK) Municipal Law practice group, where he advises public agencies on a wide range of legal issues including general municipal law, Brown Act and Public Records Act compliance, land use and zoning laws, the California Subdivision Map Act, state housing laws,  CEQA compliance, First Amendment matters, cannabis regulation, and billboard and sign ordinances. He serves as city attorney for the cities of Azusa and  Shafter, and assistant city attorney for the cities of Colton and Pomona. He also provides special counsel land use services to the Cities of Montclair, Brawley and Paso Robles and to Plumas County.  He has served as general counsel to the California Chapter of the American Planning Association for more than ten years.

Before becoming an attorney, Marco spent over a decade working as a city planner with the City of Downey and the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning. He was also selected as a California Executive Fellow and assigned to the California Department of Housing and Community Development, where he contributed to statewide housing policy research and reviewed housing element.

Marco is a regular speaker and instructor on land use and planning issues and ethics in local government. In 1988, he authored an HCD research paper titled- “The Effects of Subsidized and Affordable Housing on Property Values: A Survey of Research” (1987) to assist local agencies to increase the production of low and moderate income housing in their communities.