Darin A. Sender Email & Phone Number

Darin A. Sender is an AV-rated zoning attorney and president and founder of Sender Associates, a woman-owned law firm based in Tempe, Arizona. For more than twenty years Sender has been involved in the development and entitlement fields, helping clients obtain zoning entitlements for mixed-use, residential, commercial, and industrial projects.Her entitlement approval experience includes appearances in front of municipal and county appointed and elected boards, commissions, and councils including various City Councils, Boards of Supervisors, Planning Commissions, Boards of Adjustment, and appellate hearing bodies. She also has extensive experience in the often-necessary lobbying of elected and appointed officials on behalf of her clients, as well as the public participation process.Sender also has many years of experience on the other side of the podium serving as a seven-year Mayor-appointed member of the Tempe Board of Adjustment, hearing many use permit, variance and ordinance text interpretation matters. She then served a five-year appointed term on the Tempe Planning Commission. During this time, she was closely involved in the four-year process of rewriting the City of Tempe Zoning and Development Code as a lawyer-member of the Mayor’s citizen committee, then as an instrumental member of the Planning Commission drafting the final Zoning Code. She is currently a Council-appointed member of the Ahwatukee Village Planning Committee in Phoenix.Darin has been a member of the American Bar Association since 1994 and the Arizona Bar Association since 1996. She is a longtime member of the American Institute of Architects and Arizona Institute of Architects, is a member of the Urban Land Institute, and is the past chairman of the Valley Partnership Political Action Committee. Darin is also a proud member of Tempe Leadership Class XV.

Listed skills include Zoning, Land Use, Urban Planning, Entitlements, and 14 others.