Resume of Martin C. Boire

MARTIN C. BOIRE

Born September 19, 1955, Washington, D.C.

Married: Janet Boire

Kids: Mr. Christopher Boire, Master Michael Boire, Miss Spenser Boire

Religion: Christian.  Raised Episcopal, also attended Baptist and Church of Christ. Janet raised Catholic. Presently with kids most often attend  Crossroads Baptist Church, and occasionally Prince of Peace Catholic Church, and St. James Episcopal Church.  Also occasionally do "Daddy Church" at home. 

Personality and Character Traits

Good at identifying alternative solutions to problems; value honesty and loyalty in others self-starting, self-motivating, self-sustaining; self-rewarding; consensus builder; team player; reported to have a good sense of humor; upbeat and positive; good leader; good follower; non-volatile; team brainstorming and group-think sessions to find solutions to complex problems; preferred leadership method is teamwork with consensus building and decision making; fertile, extremely active imagination; inventive; curious; great patience and diplomacy; trustworthy, loyal; courteous; good sense of right and wrong and ability to follow it through; put in whatever work it takes to get the job done on the necessary schedule; adept at perceiving and anticipating societal changes and upcoming market niches; believes in Right and hates Wrong.

Several Business And Other Activities

• Have worked since age fourteen. Started as clean-up boy at Taco Bell in Daytona Beach. Worked full time as bag-boy and stock boy at Kash n' Karry in Tampa through last two years of high school and during undergraduate college. Also pumped gas for Zayre, stocked bread for Wonder Bread, and helped remodel houses during last two years of high school, making about $10,000 to $15,000 a year.
• Developed five golf-course subdivisions at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, late 1990s. This was a major multi-million project. Brick streets. Gas lighting, etc. Lots ranged from $25,000 to $175,000. First homes built by builders valued from $450,000 to $690,000.
• Appointed by Governor Robert Martinez to the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, September 1987 to December 1990, as representative for Volusia County, Florida. Duties were the review and approval of Developments of Regional Impact (DRIs) throughout East Central Florida.
• Founder of the FSU Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law in 1993. Elected first Editor in Chief, 1983 to 1984. This was a major project. This was solely Boire’s initiative while a law student, without any organizational or financial help from the College of Law. Raised all funds. Performed all organization. Established network of financial supporters throughout Florida. Created system of Patrons ($1,000+ year), Benefactors ($500-$999 year) and Contributors ($50-$499 year), who are listed and honored on inside leaf of each Journal Issue. This system endures to this day. Organized and coordinated thirty law students as first staff. First 200-page issue cited by United States Supreme Court, a rare event. Two years after Boire’s management and founding of the Journal, it was made an official publication of FSU. It is still in publication.
• Helped develop several patents and trademarks for family corporations. Some parts are used by police and special operations forces. See SnapMarkers.com and PoolMarkers.com.
• Former Developer and 60% owner of LionsPaw at LPGA International, Daytona Beach, Florida, a 750 lot subdivision within this major destination golf resort community (about 200 lots developed by 1998). First homes built value from $450,000 to $690,000. Preconstruction subdivision lot sales of over $1,000,000.
• Consultant in a number of areas such as: Comprehensive business venture, deal and investment analysis; New venture documents, contracts, negotiation; Design, and launching; Business team assemblage and oversight; Business plans -- basic and complex; international trade -- business and legal aspects; Spreadsheet and financial models and projections; Contract negotiation to comprehensively cover and protect business transactions; Coordination, and launching of complex business ventures, projects, and programs; Problem solving and identification of alternative solutions to problems.
• Member, Rotary International, Ormond by the Sea, circa 1985 to circa 1988. Elected Member, Project Review Committee, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, July 20, 1988 until resigned on July 18, 1990. This committee did the detail work on DRIs (water, sewer, transportation, etc.) throughout East Central Florida and recommended approval or not to the entire Council. Elected Member, Bylaws Review Committee, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, 1988 to July 20, 1988 to December 1990. Re-wrote entire Florida Administrative Code Rule structuring the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, the Project Review Committee, and their review processes and procedures. Elected Chairman, Bylaws Review Committee, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, 1988 to February 21, 1990 to December 1990. Additional changes Florida Administrative Code Rule struc­turing Council, its review process, and its procedure. Lecturer to the Florida Society of Dentistry for Children on pre-Columbian Meso-American cultures at its November 1980 dental convention in Mexico City.

Sundry Subjects

• Moderate Spanish ability. Moderate French ability.
• Comprehensive creation, organization, and launching of complex projects, anticipating variables and factors and making them part of plan.
• Creating, coordinating, and launching vast complex ventures, projects, and programs.
• Adept at taking huge concepts, and developing them and implementing them at the action level.
• Function well in emergency and urgent situations such as entering and removing couple from burning car, treating gunshot victim, moderate surgery on self in desert, handling of broken limbs in mountains, and once even chased down a fugitive in lengthy foot pursuit while deputized, and the like.
• Develop consensus among disagreeing people and show them what interests they have in common in order to forge a common plan and proceed on it to a successful business conclusion.
• Well experienced in cutting and negotiating multi-million dollar business deals for self and others. Team brainstorming and group-think sessions to find solutions to complex problems.

Interest-Pursuits-Adventures

• Extremely interested in wife and best friend Janet; instilling proper values, determination, and problem-solving skills in children during their formative years; working with kids on languages; games and sports with kids; travel within and without United States; reading new things and re-reading old things; ideas; socio-political theory; snow skiing; water skiing.
• Scuba diving (certified open water); target shooting (NRA Sharpshooter Bar 4); Karate (brown belt, Yoshoki; blue belt, Wado-Ru); backpacking (have hiked large portions of Appalachian Trail and Flori­da Trail in 60-mile stretches); backpacking in New Mexico mountains for 10 days; kayaking French Broad River in North Carolina and a river in Provenance in France.
• Lengthy solo adventuring several times in Peru, Andes, Amazon jungle, Ecuador, Columbia, the Yucatan, and Mexican desert.  Train wrecks, floods, buses off cliffs, knife fights, military interaction, staying with locals, plane wrecks.
• Several months' solo residence in England and Scotland. Lengthy travel with Swedish friends along Sweden's East coast, and moderate time in Denmark.
• Numerous business trips in Switzerland and travel throughout with Swiss friends and colleagues.
• Lengthy stays and travel throughout Germany with German friends and colleagues.
• Extensive travel within the United States.
• Family often travels to Tremblant, Canada for Christmas skiing, and to New York, and other US venues.
• Family traded home with family in Paris and stayed Summer in Paris, and two weeks living in Switzerland and hiking the Alps.
• Family travels to study Mexican desert Mayan ruins.

Bar Admissions

Member, The Florida Bar. Admitted, United States District Court (Federal) Middle District of Florida.

Legal Positions and Activities

• Attorney for City of DeLand, Florida, Code Enforcement Board, 1985 to 1995. Only charged them $50 hour because it was a matter of pubic service.
• Interim City Attorney, City of DeLand, Florida, 1988 to 1989. Charged them $50 hour as a matter of pubic service.
• Attorney, Martin C. Boire, P.A., Daytona Beach and DeLand, 1990 to 2005t.
• Occasional adjunct professor of Environmental Law at DBCC early 90's.  Course includes among other things: Florida Wetlands law, land use, aspects of administrative law, NEPA, Environmental Impact Statements, RCRA, CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, The Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, local land development permitting.
• Unrestricted Agent, Attorney's Title Insurance Fund, Inc., authorized to issue land title insurance policies up to $1,000,000.00, and up to any amount with approval, 1990 - 2003.
• Member, Committee on Governmental Regulation of Land Use of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar for several years.
• Member and Chairman, Advisory Board to the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, published by The Florida State University College of Law, 1984 to present.
• Member, Environmental and Land Use Section of The Florida Bar for several years.

Graduate Education

• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Master of Arts, Political Theory, 1985.

Honors

• Vanderbilt Ph.D. program. Vanderbilt University Graduate Fellowship for Ph.D. program in Political Theory. Only two of these fully paid Fellowships were awarded to entering graduate students each year. Paid 100% of tuition, housing, health insurance, and $500 cash.
• Undergraduate Education The University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Bachelor of Arts, English, Political Science (double major), 1980. Minor in humanities. 3.999 GPA. Additionally audited numerous classes. On a number of occasions was requested to lecture undergraduate class on particular subject.

Activities & Honors

• Intern, Commissioner Jan Platt, Hillsborough County Board of County Commis­sioners, 1979.
• Phi Kappa Phi (national interdisciplinary honor society), sole Junior member selected from College of Arts and Letters, 1978. Awarded book scholarship, 1978.
• Pi Sigma Alpha (national political science honor society), elected to membership in 1979, President, 1980.

Legal Education

• Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida. Juris Doctorate, April 1984. On several occasions was given opportunity to lecture class on particular subject.
• St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, England. Courses, 1982.
• Vanderbilt University College of Law, Nashville, Tennessee. Courses, 1981.

Activities, Services, Honors

• Law Revue, 1982, 1983, 1984 (note: not "review", this is very important). Established and directed an annual evening 2-hour show of legal and law school related humor and skits by students and faculty. Videotapes of each annual show are retained in the law school library collection. Our skit (Greg Parker and Martin Boire) was The Law Revue Evening News with "Mort Feaser" and "Bill Attainder".
• Law Student Directory. Initiated and published the College's first annual photographic student direc­tory. This was in the pre-digital era, when it was all real photos, and all cut and paste for offset printing. College of Law now continues the directory each year.
• Student Defense Representative. Prevailed in all but one assigned cases within the University Judicial System, 1982 to 1983. This is a Florida State University program for College of Laws students in which offenses by FSU students on campus are administered.
• University Prosecutor. Prosecuted cases in the University Judicial System. August 1983 to November 1983. Prevailed in all assigned cases. This is a Florida State University program for College of Laws students in which offenses by FSU students on campus are administered.
• Founded the FSU Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law. This was a major project. Founder and first elected Editor in Chief, 1983 to 1984. This was solely Boire's initiative while law student, without any organizational or financial help from dean of college of law. First issue cited by United States Supreme Court (very rare).First issue was full issue about 200 pages in length.Organized and conducted writing contest to select from Journal members and editorial board from law student body. Organized and coordinated thirty law students as first staff. Organized faculty support to overcome law school’s dean's opposition to establishing Journal. Two years after management and founding of the Journal, it was made and official publication of FSU. The Spring 2004 issue, saw the twentieth year of the Journal's success. Journal remains a preeminent land use and environmental law legal publication. Average issue length is 175 pages, and based on it the College has made environmental and land use law a special focus of it curriculum and reputation. Raised all necessary funds to establish Journal by phone and mail from law firms around Florida and Florida Bar. Many still support it today. Designed framework to survive graduation and departure. Journal has had continuous twenty years publication and circulation throughout United States since founding. Selected office equipment and swapped advertising in Journal to get it for free (no other law review had ever run advertising; many have followed this example and do now). Maneuvered Journal into office space within College of Law through help of Janitor and University rule that empty space must be given the a requesting organization. Selected and purchased computer systems for memberships and drafting and editing articles for publication. Solicited scholarly articles for first issue from all over United States law schools and planning and zoning departments. Designed cover of Journal, color, layout, etc. Bid out and selected printing company. Negotiated printing contracts. Implemented what was at that time very advanced (today routine) date transmission over phone lines from our computer direct into out-of-state print shop’ computer and difficulties back then of non-standardization of computer languages ands protocols and undependable wire phone lines. Successfully managed Journal for 1½ years. Increased subscriber base, and revenue. Established network of financial supporters throughout Florida. Managed and created system of Patrons ($1,000+ year), Benefactors ($500-$999 year) and Contributors($50-$499 year), who are listed and honored on inside leaf of each Journal Issue according to have much they contributed. This system endures to this day. By use of innovative planning and efforts of student founder, the Journal was established and run without cost to the FSU College of Law.
• Student Bar Association. President, Spring 1983. Third-year Representative, Summer and Fall, 1983.
• College of Law Faculty Selection (hiring) Committee. Full voting member, 1982 to 1983. Only law student ever sent (at least as of that date) to AALS faculty hiring conference with hiring committee by law school faculty to interview and select new law school professors.
• College of Law Admissions committee. Full voting member, 1982 to 1983. This committee selected those applicants who would be admitted as students to law school. Student Bar Association Alumni Association Liaison Committee, 1983 to 1984.
• Alumni Association Five-Year Plan Committee consultant, at request of Chairman, Ken Conner, Esquire, 1983.
• Oxford Law Program. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, England, Summer 1982.  Wrote and compiled comprehensive Policy, Procedure and Information Manual manual for the Student Bar Association Executive Board.
• Journal Articles of Association. Drafted original Articles of Association of the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law. Student Bar Association Constitution. Co-authored Student Bar Association Constitution in 1983. Recipient of 1984 College of Law Alumni Association Student Service Award.

Legal Publications

• Stanford Journal of International Law. Major eighty page Article. Boire, "Terrorism Reconsidered as Punishment: Toward and Evaluation of the Acceptability of Terrorism as a Method of Societal Change or Maintenance," 20 Stanford Journal of International Law 401-484 (Spring 1984). Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law. Large thirty page article. Anonymously co-authored (with Al Frith, Esquire) "Development of Regional Impact Process, Practice and Procedure," 1 Journal of Environmental Law 71-104 (1985). Boire elected to co-author anonymously because was first issue and was Editor-in-Chief.
• Legal Economics. Boire, "Time Wise," Legal Economics, 32-35 July/August 1985) (magazine of the American Bar Association). Economics and Management of Law Practice Section Newsletter.
• Boire, "Time Wise," 2 Economics and Management of Law Practice Section Newsletter 1-5 (March 1984) (newsletter of Economics and Management of Law Practice Section Newsletter of the American Bar Association).

Non-legal Publications.

• Vanderbilt Poetry Review. Boire, "Untitled," 6 Vanderbilt Poetry Review 24 (1981).
• Numerous commentaries, guest columns, articles and interviews in the Daytona Beach News Journal, the DeLand Sun News, and the Orlando Sentinel.
• The Orlando Sentinel. Boire, “Freedom the true hostage in hijacking,” The Orlando Sentinel, June 23, 1985, G-4.
• Guest Commentary for Sentinel on the TWA Flight 847 hostage situation. Some Articles And Publication About or Citing Boire FSU Law. Barlow, "Following the Dream." FSU Law magazine. 10-11. (Winter, 1996).
• Author of article discusses how "Martin Boire has built on skills he developed as an FSU law student in the early 1980's to build innovative neighborhoods in the Daytona Beach area" and how "Boire sees the return of multigenerational families under one roof as a 'reality of modern day life'; LionsPaw homes will accommodate aging parents and returning children as well as guests." Daytona Beach News Journal.
• Murray, "No Workplace Like Home." Daytona Beach News Journal. Sunday, July 14, 1996, Section F, Page 1-2. Author discusses zoning for home offices changing with the times, and "special zoning rules, written by the developer, Martin Boire, introduce an option not yet permitted anywhere else in the city."
• Volusia Review. Parente, "Book inspires $50M. dream." Volusia Review, Vol 120, No. 28, Monday, July 10, 1995. Author discusses unique LionsPaw community plan. Daytona Beach Sunday News Journal. “Lawyer: Hostage Retaliation Could Damage View of U.S.” July 7, 1985.
• Interviewer’s article regarding the 39 American’s being held hostage on TWA jet in Beirut by terrorists. Quotes Boire “People of other nations have always looked to the U.S. as a symbol of justice, of what is right and good” and commending media that “you heard very little about who the highjackers were or their personal backgrounds, which is good, given terrorist’s desire for attention.”  

Mistakes and Errors

• Not emphasized here of course, but like everyone who’s done anything, a sufficient supply is available from which a great deal has been learned.

Land Development Knowledge and Experience.

• Developer of initial housing component at LPGA International golf course community in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• Project Manager of multimillion dollar project from inception to up and running status, then turned management over to a management company. Created idea, concept plan, community flavor, and all development plans, tightly controlled the planning and architectural elements, including. Raised and organized capital. Constructed some solid brick neighborhood streets. Preparation of detailed Business Plan for project. Preparation and maintenance of detailed multi-phase, multi-sheet economic modeling of multiphase project on Excel spreadsheets.
• Wrote and negotiated extensively unique cutting-edge neo-traditional zoning ordinance and first Planned Master Development Agreement used in the City of Daytona Beach.
• Wrote and negotiated sophisticated planning documents and homeowner declarations providing for work-at-home (home office with employee and customer trips to homes) zoning, garage apartments, guest cottages for intergenerational living at home.
• Home Office Zoning. Thought up, created and implemented cutting-edge work at home zoning ordinance and restrictive covenants. Allows office in home with employee and three client trips per day. Regulates business type, signage and parking to preserve neighborhood flavor while eliminating commuting and reducing transportation loads (because most cities won’t let a client come to a home office). Hope to encourage artists, dancers, and piano teachers within neighborhood to offer lessons in their home to neighborhood kids.
• Garage Apartments. Thought up, created and implemented zoning and restrictive convents for special types of garage apartments. Encourages construction of garage apartments as self contained living units with second kitchen permitted in order to fulfill societal need of multi-generational family living as population ages, affordable housing, older kids return home, aged parents live with children instead of in nursing homes, or college student need inexpensive place to live, all of which add up to a more interesting, healthy mix of life patterns and activities and people to interact with in a neighborhood. Make it more of a true community instead of a collection of homes.
• Guest Cottages. Thought up, created and implemented zoning and restrictive convents for Guest Cottages. Fulfill same need as Garage Apartment, or home office, but as a stand alone structure. Nice for friends and relatives who come to visit, and for art studios and hobby shop.
• System of miniparks throughout community to provide lots of different places to stop and rest or play when out for a walk.
• Periodic water drinking fountains here and there for when jogging, making community truly livable and serviceable
• Performed all permitting at the St. Johns River Water Management District and the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as with the City of Daytona Beach Planning Department, Engineering Department, and Building and Zoning Department.
• Handled all presentations before the City Planning and Zoning Board, and the City Commission. Performed all LionsPaw community design and layout.
• Handled reuse water system, potable water system, sanitary sewer.
• Designed and installed gas street light system, unique lineal “Parkwalk” system along roadside (moving 7’ sidewalk 15 feet back of curb with park-like landscaping buffering it), entry monuments, mood and feel.
• Wrote advertising literature and created theme of resort community.
• Conducted innumerable group meetings and follow-ups with Sheriff’s office, police department, 911 management agency, postmaster, Daytona Beach Police, EVAC ambulance, and other agencies to coordination road naming system compatible with all of their needs. Knowledgeable about flood zones and stormwater problems.
• Produced high quality comprehensive covenants and restriction for triple-layer homeowner associations: master association, community, and neighborhoods levels.
• Organized homeowners associations.
• Contracts between developer and home builder, real estate broker, sales persons, subdivision improvement contractors, city, sub-developers, bulk land sales, volume builder program, custom builder program, developer and governmental entities.
• Subdivision contracts with City, subdivision performance bonds, utility extension agreements with City.
• Handled zoning, and state and federal permitting.
• Created and administered multimillion dollar construction budget, supervised subdivision construction and brought in on budget.
• Planned a small neo-traditional neighborhood component involving live-over retail shops.
• Broad based knowledge of smart house and other futuristic technologies; comprehensive technical knowledge of building and subdivision planning and construction including civil engineering, potable water systems, re-use water systems, road design and construction, lighting systems, CATV, phone, natural gas, financing, sales, etc.
• Created thematic street names. (Arika, Festiva, Jubilee, Captiva, LionsPaw Grand, Acclaim, VII Nobles, Veranda).
• Selected and employed architectural content cast metal street poles, paddles, and signage.
• Installed cast metal Howard four-faced street clock as thematic element.
• Provided for interesting participatory fruit trees, editable plants in the neighborhood Provided for a hummingbird and butterfly enhancement program.
• Provided for a garden club to enable residents to interact and do things together for the whole community.
• Created neighborhood “Decosections” (brick street intersections with large pictures made of brick, Florida birds, flowers, etc.) to add pleasant aspect to streets as move through the neighborhood. Established marketing program.
• Substantial knowledge of civil engineering; and community planning.
• Knowledge of practical problems that arise in industry gives rise to ability to preemptively draft to address them in contracts. Knows what works and what doesn’t, what it takes to drive a deal through to conclusion.
•  Practical knowledge of water plants and waste water treatment plants.
• Prepared land sales contracts with sub-developers, partnership agreements, addressing business and legal aspects of deals Knowledgeable about engineering testing and certification Demographic data analysis; trend projection; market study interpretation
• Negotiated and wrote Daytona’s first Planned Master Development Agreement.
• Local zoning and land use planning.
• Comprehensive plan process and amendment process.
• Local subdivision regulations and changing them to meet the development’s needs
• Good governmental relations as have worked for government periodically and was governmental appointee.
• Skilled at presentations to public bodies.
• Good graphic arts and presentation ability.