Weinstein-Carnes, Ashley
Weinstein-Carnes, Ashley
Ashley Weinstein-Carnes provides advice and counsel on land use issues with a focus on local administrative permitting, including the negotiation of agreements with local governments and public agencies; coordination of environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); and processing of entitlements through public hearings and other administrative proceedings. She has successfully obtained land use approvals for large-scale projects, including mixed-use and multifamily residential developments, corporate R&D and office campuses, professional sports arenas, hospitals, and industrial facilities.
In addition to land use permitting, Ashley conducts due diligence for the acquisition, disposition, and leasing of property. She advises institutional investors, lenders, developers, landowners, and lessees and lessors with regard to existing land use restrictions and agreements, as well as strategies and requirements for the re-entitlement of property.
Ashley has significant experience with California’s planning and zoning laws, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Subdivision Map Act, exactions and takings, and affordable housing laws. She has a particular interest in housing development, including strategies for streamlining residential and mixed-use residential projects, and regularly speaks and writes on changes in the regulatory landscape impacting housing production in California.
Ashley is currently a faculty lecturer at the University of California, Haas School of Business, where she teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course to business, law and planning students on land development and investment.
Ashley is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, serving on the Leadership Team of the Small Scale Development National Product Council and the Steering Committee of the San Francisco District Council Young Leaders Group. She is a member and former Vice-President of the Berkeley Real Estate Alumni Association.
Ashley earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law with an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Real Estate. While at Berkeley Law, she was a member of the Ecology Law Quarterly Board and a Graduate Research Assistant at the UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation, publishing a paper on affordable housing streamlining strategies.
