# Feasibility Study

> Feasibility Study converts land's present condition into a permitted future use

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:development-entitlement:feasibility-study` |
| Family | Development & Entitlement |
| Domain | Governance |
| Era | Institutional Age → Agentic Age |
| Kind | concept |
| Archetype | The Pattern |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Feasibility Study is a concept in the Development & Entitlement family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Feasibility Study converts land's present condition into a permitted future use.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Site Control, Zoning, Capital, Construction

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Feasibility Study converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- **Gift:** Clarity about feasibility study makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When feasibility study is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when feasibility study is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where feasibility study appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Feasibility Study reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Feasibility Study changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Feasibility Study changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Feasibility Study can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Pattern enters the reading through Feasibility Study. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What changes when Feasibility Study becomes the unit of analysis?

**Guidance:** Shift scale, clock, stakeholder, boundary, and claim layer before choosing a move.

## Game function

Creates a graph move that changes the active map. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **Development Loan amplifies Feasibility Study.** Development Loan amplifies Feasibility Study through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Site Control documents Feasibility Study.** Site Control documents Feasibility Study through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Feasibility Study transfers into Entitlement.** Feasibility Study transfers into Entitlement through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Feasibility Study conflicts with Form-Based Code.** Feasibility Study conflicts with Form-Based Code through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Feasibility Study through the lineage of Development & Entitlement: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Feasibility Study: one dominant symbolic mechanism with a restrained secondary counterforce; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Energy Codes 101](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/articles/energy-codes-101-what-are-they-and-what-does-role) — U.S. Department of Energy; model codes, adoption, enforcement, building systems.
- [Risk-Based Brownfields Cleanups](https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/risk-based-brownfields-cleanups) — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; contamination, remediation, reuse, institutional controls.
