A native of Maryland, Bob currently resides with his family in Davidsonville. He has spent his entire career working on state and local land use and environmental matters.
Prior to joining Hyatt and Weber, Bob served as Anne Arundel County’s Land Use and Environment Officer, Director of the State of Maryland’s Water Resources Administration, Program Director for Environmental Services and Waste Management with the Maryland Environmental Service, and District Manager of the Anne Arundel Conservation District. Bob received a bachelor and master’s degree in resource planning and management from West Virginia University and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. He has been admitted to the Maryland legal bar since 1986.
Bob’s practice encompasses land use, zoning, environmental and government relations issues. Bob’s extensive state and county regulatory experience includes the following areas: tidal and nontidal wetlands, water rights surface and ground water appropriation, floodplain management and regulation, dam safety, coal and non-coal mining, Critical Area regulation, stormwater management, erosion and sediment control, environmental dredging, reforestation, stream restoration, solid waste management, local land development and zoning. Bob has developed and testified on land use and environmental legislation, regulations and programs at the state and local levels of government.
