Mark R. Flowers
Partner | Davies Howe LLP
Mark is a partner of Davies Howe LLP and a member of the firm’s municipal, planning and land development law group. His practice involves all aspects of land use planning and development law.
Mark has assisted clients on a number of complex planning and development law files and has acted as lead counsel in a number of high-profile Ontario Municipal Board / Local Planning Appeal Tribunal hearings.
Mark regularly appears before the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, the Toronto Local Appeal Body, and municipal councils and committees to advocate on behalf of the firm’s clients.
Mark has also appeared on numerous occasions before the Ontario Courts on a variety of municipal and planning law disputes, including the Ontario Court of Appeal, Divisional Court, the Superior Court of Justice, and the Ontario Court of Justice.
Mark articled with the City of Toronto Legal Department and was a solicitor with the Department’s Planning and Development Law section prior to joining Davies Howe in 2002.
Mark graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1999, where he was awarded the Robert W. Macaulay Scholarship in Land Use Planning Law, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2001. Before law school, Mark obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Geography and a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Development, both from the University of Toronto.
Mark is a frequent speaker and contributor to continuing legal educations programs offered by the Law Society of Ontario and the Ontario Bar Association on a variety of municipal and planning law topics.
Mark has repeatedly been identified as a Leading Practitioner in Property Development Law in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT® Directory, as has been qualified by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as an expert in municipal and planning law.
Mark is a former Chair of the Ontario Bar Association – Municipal Law Section. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute – Toronto, the Building Industry and Land Development Association, Lambda Alpha – Simcoe Chapter, and the Ontario Expropriation Association.