About Carolyn Lee

Carolyn J. Lee is an Associate in Lubin Olson’s Real Estate, Land Use, Affordable Housing, and Natural Resources Practice Groups.  She specializes in affordable housing transactions and commercial real estate transactions.  Ms. Lee represents clients in a broad range of matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing, entity formation, development, title and real estate due diligence, land use and environmental matters.  She also has significant experience representing clients in the acquisition, financing and development of affordable housing projects using tax-exempt bond and low-income housing tax credit financing, as well as United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s financing and subsidy programs.

In her land use practice, Ms. Lee represents developers, institutions and other property owners in obtaining entitlements and permits for use of their property.  She advises her clients on the preparation of environmental review documents under the California Environmental Quality Act, and the preparation of entitlement documents under the Subdivision Map Act, general plans, and local planning codes and zoning ordinances.  She has represented clients with complex development projects throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, which involve entitling large multifamily residential projects and mixed-use office, commercial, and residential projects.