# Development Agreement

> Development Agreement converts land's present condition into a permitted future use

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

## What it is

Development Agreement is a record or instrument 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

Development Agreement 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:** borrower, lender, title professional, attorney, custodian, recorder
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** durable evidence, priority, notice, transferability
- **Dependencies:** Land, Site Control, Zoning, Capital, Construction

## Archetypal reading

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

## Lenses

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

## Divination

The Ledger enters the reading through Development Agreement. 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 must Development Agreement make durable before you can safely proceed?

**Guidance:** Resolve provenance, authority, custody, and ambiguity before relying on the artifact.

## Game function

Provides Evidence or Authority; missing custody or a defect blocks transfer. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **B-Note transfers into Development Agreement.** B-Note transfers into Development Agreement through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Subdivision Approval is administered through Development Agreement.** Subdivision Approval is administered through Development Agreement through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Development Agreement depends on Impact Fee.** Development Agreement depends on Impact Fee through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Development Agreement is governed by Parking Minimum.** Development Agreement is governed by Parking Minimum 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 Development Agreement 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 Development Agreement: engraved layers, signatures, parcel geometry, seals, and custody marks held inside a precise brass frame; 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.
