Brian L. McCann represents businesses and individuals before municipal boards and commissions and prosecutes and defends administrative appeals regarding issuance and denial of planning and zoning and inland wetland approvals. Brian possesses extensive experience litigating commercial, residential, and personal property tax appeals, as well as eminent domain matters. He has handled tax appeals involving a vast array of property types, including hotels, special use properties, and health care facilities. He also has a significant amount of experience handling land use and real estate sales and acquisitions matters and assists owners and developers through all phases of planning and permitting necessary to obtain the desired approvals.

Prior to joining Zabel Schellenberg, PLLC, Brian was a land use, municipal and tax appeal attorney for Pullman & Comley, LLC. Brian also served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Norwalk as its primary land use counsel. He represented and advised all of the City’s land use boards and agencies in the performance of their duties as well as defended their decisions in appeals before the Connecticut Superior Court. Additionally, he drafted and implemented new ordinances (such as a blight ordinance, and a zoning citation ordinance), prosecuted injunctions to enforce code violations, defended the City in appeals to State agencies such as the Freedom of Information Commission and the Department of Public Health, represented the City in eminent domain actions, drafted a Title VI compliance policy, defended the City in various tort and liability actions, and drafted various license agreements, easements, and land use deed restrictions.

Before receiving his law degree, Brian served as an environmental consultant, conservation compliance officer and as a zoning inspector. His degree and work experience in the environmental sciences gives Brian a unique background and perspective which enables him to understand his clients, their needs and how to successfully navigate the municipal application, approval and appeal processes.

Bar and Court Admissions

Connecticut

U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut

Education

J.D., cum laude, Quinnipiac University School of Law, 2005

B.S., University of Vermont, 1999