YES launches
Issued over Business Wire on July 9, 2025. Reprinted here in full.
WAKE FOREST, N.C., July 9, 2025 (BUSINESS WIRE) Charlie Yokley, AICP, a leading land entitlement expert in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area with more than two decades of success addressing entitlement challenges in public and private sectors, has announced the launch of Yokley Entitlement Services (YES).
Yokley, who has managed entitlement strategies for thousands of residential lots and millions of square feet of commercial space, including leading one of the Triangle’s highest-rated public planning departments, created YES to address gaps in the entitlement space and guide projects through the phase between concept and construction.
We started YES to fix what has for the most part been broken in the world of entitlements. YES can provide effective solutions, while bringing grit, clarity, and ownership to every deal.
Charlie Yokley, AICP
The firm offers services ranging from pre-acquisition assessments and individual project management to comprehensive team integration, designed to assist developers, landowners, engineers, contractors, homeowners, and attorneys in navigating entitlements with speed, clarity, and results.
About YES Entitlement and Development Services
YES tells landowners, developers and builders what a piece of land can become, gets it approved, prices what it costs to build, and runs the project all the way there. Entitlement Services answers whether a project can happen: pre-acquisition due diligence, rezonings, site plan approval, variances, special use permits, subdivision and plats. Development Services answers what it costs and how it gets built: estimating, value engineering, land review and project management. YES works as a fractional land team, built where the work is, so clients keep the capital and the acquisition decision without carrying a land department. yokleyes.com
Where we work now. This release describes the firm at launch. We carry projects through hearings in North Carolina, southern and Tidewater Virginia, and coastal and northern South Carolina, and the written work travels further. What that means.
Original release: Business Wire. Media contact: Paul Williams, 310/569-0023, paul@medialinecommunications.com.