Professional Experience
Paloma Perez-McEvoy is a Partner with OMLO and is Co-Chair of the Municipal Law Group. Ms. Perez-McEvoy brings more than 20 years of public policy, planning and land use, and government relations experience to the Firm and has been a licensed attorney for over 15 years. Ms. Perez-McEvoy has experience providing advice and counsel on general municipal law matters and is an expert on planning and zoning laws, CEQA compliance, and has represented public agencies in complex real estate transactions. Ms. Perez-McEvoy also has experience drafting ordinances, specific plans, and negotiating development agreements. Ms. Perez-McEvoy currently serves as the Assistant City Attorney for the City of Cudahy and Deputy City Attorney for the cities of Bell Gardens, La Puente and Santa Fe Springs. Ms. Perez-McEvoy also serves as Legal Counsel to the Riverside County Office of Education and the Covina-Valley Unified School District.
Prior to joining OMLO, Ms. Perez-McEvoy worked at an international law firm where she developed a mastery of the state’s constantly-evolving housing streamlining laws (e.g., SB 330, the Housing Accountability Act, the Surplus Lands Act, etc.) and has significant experience successfully defending CEQA actions, including a commercial development in the City of Newport Beach and a 13,000 unit master planned community in Kern County.
Ms. Perez-McEvoy has been involved in a number of complex land-use projects throughout the Southern California region, including a 22,000-person, open-air sports stadium; a 1.6 million-square-foot, mixed-use campus in downtown Los Angeles; preservation of historical monuments, and numerous housing projects throughout the state of California, ranging from four units to 20,000 units.
Ms. Perez-McEvoy also has extensive experience working in advocacy and government relations at the state and local level. Prior to the practice of law, Ms. Perez-McEvoy worked in public service and government relations at the state and local level, working in the California State Legislature as a legislative aide and later as a senior advisor at the Los Angeles City Council where she advised in all aspects of municipal law, including but not limited to planning and zoning laws, CEQA, the Subdivision Map Act, the Public Records Act, the Brown Act, and negotiated development agreements for complex developments, inclusive of a $24 million development agreement that will fund various affordable housing projects and provide critical community services in the South Los Angeles region for years to come.
