Experience:
Carl N. Weiner is a partner in the Real Estate and Zoning Department at Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin. Over the last decade, he has handled a wide variety of real-estate law matters, ranging from zoning and land development to real-estate financing and acquisition. He also established a forte in the development of condominium and homeowners' associations, as well as eminent-domain proceedings.
Areas of Concentration:
Zoning and Land Development
Carl has acquired his extensive experience in zoning litigation from numerous successful appearances before zoning hearing boards and appellate arguments. He has built a noted reputation in the effective handling of zoning cases and in subdivision and land-development applications in the majority of townships and boroughs throughout Bucks and Montgomery Counties.
In one recent case, Carl successfully represented a major pharmaceutical company in opposing a zoning application by a radio-station owner to locate a 50,000-watt AM radio station near the company's newly constructed research facilities. Through comprehensive research and extensive interviews with a variety of planners and radio experts, he convinced the zoning hearing board of the potential adverse impact of the radio station. After three years of hearings, the zoning board agreed with the facts Carl presented and denied the application.
Carl also successfully resolved a significant curative-amendment challenge by a real-estate developer seeking to place mobile homes in a residential district zoned for one-acre lots. Carl presented an effective case on the negative impact on the local infrastructure from implementing this development project. Following a year of hearings, Carl was able to convince the township to approve smaller lot sizes for single-family homes.
Condominium and Homeowners' Associations
Carl has created over 100 homeowners' associations and condominium associations throughout Bucks and Montgomery Counties. He has represented numerous developers in establishing programs which enabled the smooth and effective transition of operations to newly created homeowners' associations. He also has represented developers of condominium-conversion projects to effectively follow through on all rules and regulations required under the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act.
In addition, Carl has represented various existing condominium and homeowners' associations in reviewing and revising their operating declarations and by-laws to adhere to existing and newly enacted regulations.
Real-Estate Acquisition
Carl has represented developers, commercial landowners and banks with respect to the acquisition and financing of commercial properties held for future development. He has built a reputation within the real-estate arena for structuring multi-million-dollar real-estate acquisitions with innovative contingencies for financing, land development and zoning approvals.
Eminent-Domain Proceedings
Townships and authorities often must acquire properties, or portions of properties, for road improvements. Carl has participated in all aspects of the eminent-domain process in Pennsylvania, from the filing of a declaration of taking and posting of estimated just compensation to hearings before the board of view in jury trials. In one case, Carl was successful in defending a township against charges of collusion with a developer whose land benefited from a condemnation for a sewage-treatment plant. Carl was able to demonstrate that the plant was being constructed for a public purpose, notwithstanding the incidental benefit to the developer.
Professional and Civic Activities:
Carl has frequently lectured for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Community Associations Institute and the Montgomery Bar Association. He is a past Chairman of the Montgomery Bar Specialization Committee and also the Montgomery Bar Real Estate Land Use Committee. Carl is Past President of the Pennsylvania/Greater Delaware Valley Chapter of the Community Associations Institute. He is also Vice President of Tiferet Bet Israel of Blue Bell. He is past President and on the Board of Directors of Montgomery County Big Brothers/Big Sisters Association.
Before joining the firm in 1984, he served as law clerk to The Honorable Stanley M. Greenberg of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Carl has been a partner at Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin since 1990.
EDUCATION
Carl received his J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law in 1981 and his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1978.
Carl N. Weiner 
