Yokley Entitlement Services
We guide your project through the messy space between concept and construction.
About Yokley Entitlement Services
If you need pre-acquisition quick checks, individual project management, or full-team integration, YES is here for you. Our mission? Make it simple, make it faster, and move it forward.
Founded by Charlie Yokley, AICP, YES combines decades of public- and private-sector experience to help developers, landowners, engineers, contractors, homeowners, and attorneys navigate entitlements with speed, clarity, and results.
Yokley Entitlement Services serves:
Builders & Developers
Civil Engineering Firms
Builders & Developers
Whether it’s a time and money saving pre-acquisition QuickCheck or full fractional entitlement management, YES is here to guide you through the approval processes. If you're a local or regional builder, or a national developer expanding in the Triangle, we handle approvals so you can focus on delivery.
Land Use Attorneys
Civil Engineering Firms
Builders & Developers
YES partners with land use attorneys to handle zoning and plan approvals that don’t require legal scope. We take care of the time-consuming entitlement work so you can focus on legal strategy and higher-value cases.
Civil Engineering Firms
Civil Engineering Firms
Civil Engineering Firms
Civil engineering is competitive. Clients want confidence that the project will actually get approved. You need someone to plug-in as your expert, giving you the tools to win and the capacity to deliver.
Land Owners
Contractors, Residential & Small Business Owners
Civil Engineering Firms
Zoning and entitlements can dramatically increase a property’s value, but the process is complicated. YES helps land owners navigate approvals ahead of sale to maximize sale price and attract serious buyers.
Contractors, Residential & Small Business Owners
Contractors, Residential & Small Business Owners
Contractors, Residential & Small Business Owners
YES helps contractors, homeowners, and small business owners navigate local zoning processes for permits, site improvements, and property upgrades. Whether it's a new business upfit or a backyard fence, we’ll handle the paperwork so you can get the job done.
Meet Charlie Yokley
Charlie Yokley, AICP, built YES after more than two decades of solving entitlement challenges in both government and private development.
- Managed entitlement strategies for thousands of residential lots and millions of square feet of commercial space
- Led one of the Triangle’s highest-rated public planning departments
- Generated millions in downstream engineering backlog from entitlement work alone
Charlie started YES to fix what was broken: slow approvals, expensive consultants, and disjointed teams. At YES, we bring grit, clarity, and ownership to every deal.
- Mission: Make the complex simple.
- Vision: Be the most trusted and rewarding entitlement partner in the region.
- Core Values:
- Ownership Mentality
- Celebrate Wins
- Loyalty Goes Both Ways
- Relationships Over Transactions
- Smart, Simple, Effective
- Grit with Grace
YES: The faster path to approval and the right partner for your next project.