Same record, same services. Different reason for needing them.
The entitlement process affects everyone at the table differently, depending on whose money is at risk and what they’re accountable for.
A developer carries the land and eats the loss if it doesn’t entitle. An engineering firm is retained and needs capacity without headcount. An attorney needs the record in front of them before a hearing. A landowner needs to know what the dirt can become before deciding whether to sell it or build on it.
Pick the one that sounds like you.
- Builders and developers
Entitlement risk is the biggest unmodeled line in your pro forma. It doesn’t have to be. - Landowners and investors
What the land can actually become, and what that’s worth to the person buying it. - Brokers
Your pitch is an entitlement pitch. Back it with something better than optimism. - Civil engineers and planners
Capacity when the wave arrives, without staffing for it year-round. - Land use attorneys
The research that decides a hearing shouldn’t cost partner hours. - Architects and designers
You keep the design. We handle the process that keeps changing it. - Lenders and capital
Underwriting entitlement risk with evidence, in a format a credit committee can read.
Not sure which one you are? That’s fine, describe the situation and we’ll tell you what it is.