Ian Andres

Ian Andres is a partner and heads the Municipal and Land Development Group at Goodmans.

Ian’s practice encompasses a wide variety of administrative law matters for public and private sector clients throughout Ontario.  He specializes in municipal and planning issues, assisting clients on complex development applications and land use policy appeals with significant growth management, infrastructure, servicing, environmental and heritage components. He frequently represents property owners in expropriation proceedings, court applications, tax assessment and rebate appeals, and has extensive experience with land valuation, development charges, tax incentive grants and brownfield remediation programs.  He also provides advice on a broad range of other municipal issues including governance, accountability, by-law interpretation, financing, taxation, licensing, permitting, procurement and lobbying.

Ian regularly appears before municipal committees and councils, the Ontario Land Tribunal (formerly the Ontario Municipal Board and Local Planning Appeal Tribunal), the Toronto Local Appeal Body, the Assessment Review Board and the Superior Court of Justice.

In 2018, Ian was honoured as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40. He was recently selected by his peers in Best Lawyers in Canada (2023) for his work in administrative, public, municipal and real estate law, and he is recognized in real estate: zoning and land use law by Chambers Canada (2023) and in property development by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2023), and featured in the Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure (2023).