# Development

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

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

## What it is

Development is a process 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 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:** certainty, speed, compliance, completion, error reduction
- **Inputs:** participants, documents, conditions, authority, time
- **Outputs:** decision, changed state, record, new obligations
- **Dependencies:** Land, Site Control, Zoning, Capital, Construction

## Archetypal reading

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

## Lenses

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

## Divination

The Passage enters the reading through Development. 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 information or condition must Development translate before the next commitment becomes safe?

**Guidance:** Make conditions, exceptions, handoffs, and completion criteria explicit.

## Game function

Creates a gated action requiring inputs, a decision, and a resulting Record. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **Permanent Loan enables Development.** Permanent Loan enables Development through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Development prices Site Control.** Development prices Site Control through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Development prices Zoning.** Development prices Zoning through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Zoning constrains Development.** Zoning constrains Development 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 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: a sequence of thresholds connected by a single bright path, with conditions represented as gates; 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.
