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Grady Gammage

Grady Gammage

Founding member Grady Gammage Jr. has more than 40 years of experience advising clients on Arizona real estate, development, zoning, water, and public policy. His leadership as an attorney, author, and speaker has influenced Arizona's legal and policy landscape.

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Grady Gammage and Sean Krieg

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Arizona's land use and real estate questions have water law answers

Land-use and water attorneys Grady Gammage Jr. and Sean F. Krieg trace how Arizona's 1980 Groundwater Management Act tied the right to build to the right to water, and why that gate is straining under wildcat subdivisions, falling aquifers, and a shrinking Colorado River. The question was never whether Arizona grows, they write, but whether water gets priced honestly into the math.

Arizona's land use and real estate questions have water law answers