J. Cleve Livingston is a founding partner of Boyden, Cooluris, Livingston & Saxe, P.C. Mr. Livingston specializes in Land Use, Environmental, Real Estate, Housing and Energy Law. Mr. Livingston's law experience includes service as General Counsel to the California Department of Housing and Community Development and as Senior Attorney -- Environmental Litigation for the non-profit Conservation Law Foundation of New England. Over the past ten years, his practice has had as its principal focus representation involving large development projects. Mr. Livingston typically acts as lead counsel with respect to the tasks of securing project entitlements as well as implementing the development plan once approved. Such representation includes work as principal advisor with respect to the preparation and approval of specific plans, development agreements, environmental impact reports, wetlands and endangered species permits, infrastructure financing plans, assessment district formations and related development permits and approvals. Mr. Livingston’s practice also includes the preparation of Conditions, Covenants and Restrictions and all manner of development related agreements as well as the formation of Home Owner Associations and Business Property Owner Associations.

Mr. Livingston received his B.A., cum laude, in Government from Harvard College in 1969. He received his J.D. from Antioch School of Law, Washington, DC in 1975. In 1982, Mr. Livingston received a Master of Public Administration Degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, with a concentration in development economics.

Mr. Livingston is the author or co-author of the following publications: "Growth Controls, State Housing Regulations, and the New Federal Program Requirements," Can We Afford Local Growth Controls?, Institute of Government Affairs, University of California at Davis, 1977; The California Housing Element Manual, California Department of Housing and Community Development, 1978; The Fair Share Planning Manual, California Department of Housing and Community Development, 1978; Underground Petroleum Storage Tanks: Local Regulation of a Groundwater Hazard, Conservation Law Foundation of New England, 1984; and Fueling the Conservation Power Plant, Conservation Law Foundation, 1992. Mr. Livingston also served as principal author of the California Housing Element Law (Government Code §§65580 et seq.).

Mr. Livingston’s pro bono legal work includes representation of affordable housing projects in jurisdictions throughout California and service as General Counsel to Sacramento 2000 -- the Local Organizing Committee for the 2000 Olympic Team Track and Field Trials. Mr. Livingston was a member of the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Teams (silver medallist) and served for many years on the United States Men's Olympic Rowing Committee. He also captained the Harvard crew and is a member of the Harvard Athletic Hall of Fame. He presently serves as an appointed member of the joint City/County Sacramento Sports Commission and as Chair of the Sacramento Region Sports Education Foundation which acts as the Local Organizing Committee for events such as the 1999 U.S. Gymnastics Championships, the 2000 Olympic Team Track and Field Trials, and the 2002 First and Second Round NCAA Men’s Basketball Championships. In addition, Mr. Livingston is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee and the Sacramento Regional Representative and Secretary to the Northern California Junior Tennis Council of the USTA.

Mr. Livingston is a member of the California State Bar and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bar.