Tara Piurko

Tara Piurko has over 20 years of experience in planning and development, real property assessment and taxation, and municipal law matters. She regularly provides strategic advice, counsel and support to property owners, including public and private developers, on development approvals and land entitlement matters and real property assessment and taxation matters.

She is an expert negotiator and has extensive experience securing development approvals, including settling official plan amendments, zoning bylaw amendments and a variety of development agreements. She is also experienced in the area of expropriations, payments-in-lieu of taxes and ground rent arbitration and property tax recharge disputes. Tara was the first Canadian President of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network. Tara appears before various courts, tribunals, panels, boards and committees of adjustment and council on various municipal, assessment, taxation and land development matters.

Tara is a co-author of the Taxation (General) chapter of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada. She was named to the 2018 - 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in Canada for Municipal Law, and is a Recognized Practitioner, Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Ontario) by Chambers Canada.