# Conditional Use Permit

> Conditional Use Permit converts land's present condition into a permitted future use

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

## What it is

Conditional Use Permit 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

Conditional Use Permit 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:** Conditional Use Permit converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- **Gift:** Clarity about conditional use permit makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When conditional use permit 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 conditional use permit is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

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

## Divination

The Tension enters the reading through Conditional Use Permit. 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 Conditional Use Permit 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

- **Mezzanine Loan amplifies Conditional Use Permit.** Mezzanine Loan amplifies Conditional Use Permit through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Variance amplifies Conditional Use Permit.** Variance amplifies Conditional Use Permit through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Conditional Use Permit conflicts with Site Plan Approval.** Conditional Use Permit conflicts with Site Plan Approval through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Conditional Use Permit conflicts with Downzoning.** Conditional Use Permit conflicts with Downzoning 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 Conditional Use Permit 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 Conditional Use Permit: 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.
