# Development

Development is treated as an interconnected process and meaning field. The chapter moves from grounded mechanisms to incentives, risks, history, relationships, mapshifts, and human consequences.

## Core traversal

- [USDA Rural Development](../nodes/institutions/usda-rural-development.md) — USDA Rural Development recycles lender capital and standardizes loans for investors beyond the local transaction
- [Development Loan](../nodes/commercial/development-loan.md) — Development Loan allocates priority, control, recourse, and return across a commercial capital stack
- [Development](../nodes/development/development.md) — Development converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Site Control](../nodes/development/site-control.md) — Site Control converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Feasibility Study](../nodes/development/feasibility-study.md) — Feasibility Study converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Entitlement](../nodes/development/entitlement.md) — Entitlement converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Rezoning](../nodes/development/rezoning.md) — Rezoning converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Variance](../nodes/development/variance.md) — Variance converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Conditional Use Permit](../nodes/development/conditional-use-permit.md) — Conditional Use Permit converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Site Plan Approval](../nodes/development/site-plan-approval.md) — Site Plan Approval converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Subdivision Approval](../nodes/development/subdivision-approval.md) — Subdivision Approval converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Development Agreement](../nodes/development/development-agreement.md) — Development Agreement converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Impact Fee](../nodes/development/impact-fee.md) — Impact Fee converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Exaction](../nodes/development/exaction.md) — Exaction converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Density Bonus](../nodes/development/density-bonus.md) — Density Bonus converts land's present condition into a permitted future use
- [Transit-Oriented Development](../nodes/development/transit-oriented-development.md) — Transit-Oriented Development programs which spatial uses may occur, where, and at what intensity

## How to read this chapter

Follow claims and cash flows separately. Ask who holds authority, who supplies information, who receives benefit, who carries risk, and what changes when time or scale changes. Keep sourced fact, industry practice, synthesis, interpretation, and symbolic expression distinguishable.

## Mapshifting prompts

1. Change the unit of analysis from property to right, loan, cash flow, role, record, neighborhood, or institution.
2. Change the clock from closing day to thirty years, one market cycle, one building life, or several generations.
3. Change stakeholder and ask which previously invisible cost becomes central.
4. Return to the human map before choosing a move.

## Sentinel handoff

Legal, regulatory, fair-lending, historical, financial, cultural, and jurisdiction-specific annotations remain separate from Engine Output. They inform contextual use without flattening the graph.
