By the work, one knows the workman. Jean de La Fontaine
february 18, 2016 by burt m. polson, ccim
This post originally appeared on tBL member Burt Polson’s blog Real Estate in the Napa Valley and is republished with permission. Find out how to syndicate your content with theBrokerList. –
How many times have you hear the most important attribute in real estate is location, location, location? In my opinion, location is not the most important aspect, but rather what you can do with the real estate.
We all have a silent partner in every piece of real estate owned in the form of the city, county, state and sometimes federal government.
Yes, location is important, but so is your purpose for the site. Whether you are planning to build a home, a neighborhood shopping center or a cement factory all are tied to the allowed use.
A municipality goes to great lengths in developing a master plan for a city through the input of the residents. This plan is the overlying document which dictates many things, use of a particular parcel of land is one of them.
Compliance gone wild
Oftentimes, we may feel that the city or county is not on our side. I have heard from clients who felt harassed by planning and building officials regarding minute details that did not make sense.
For example, my client came close to potentially losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in value because of three walnut trees he needed to cut down in order to build homes. I am all for saving trees, which he was doing with several oak trees on the site. He is also planting two trees for each one he cuts down. Fortunately, we were able to show the officials the future benefits.
You do have a voice
The process is structured to allow for public comment by other property owners and residents within the area of the development as well as anyone else.
Consider the previously proposed shopping center here in Napa on Solano Avenue. Zoning allows for this type of use, which is why the owner was selling the land to a developer. Local residents mounted a campaign against the development claiming the use of their property will be detrimentally affected by this new development.
As a result of the public comments the developer rescinded his application for the shopping center. Last I heard a senior living complex was being discussed for the site, which is a much less intensive use.
Eminent domain–two dirty words?
Eminent domain has come up in the news lately. It is a tool given to the government through the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment to take property for fair compensation when its use was needed for the good of the public.
This practice was widely used in Napa County for the flood control project. This was a valid reason for implementing, but I would ascertain it depends on who you ask.
The government partner we all have in our real estate ownership is a powerful one. Oftentimes, the process is cumbersome and sometimes undesired. But, we would not have our sustainable, viable and growing communities without these processes in place. I like to think it is a compilation of the desires of the residents of what they hope to see in their community.
Burt M. Polson, CCIM, is a real estate broker with ACRES Real Estate Services Inc. Reach him at 707-254-8000, burt@acresinfo.com. Sign up for his email newsletter at BurtPolson.com.
About Burt M. Polson, CCIM Burt M. Polson, CCIM has written 45 post(s) in this blog. Burt M. Polson, CCIM is a Commercial Real Estate Advisor with ACRES Real Estate Services, Inc. He has been assisting clients in the sale, leasing, management and consulting of commercial real estate in the Napa Valley since 1992. He can be reached at (707) 254-8000 or burt@acresinfo.com. Find Burt’s blog Real Estate in the Napa Valley here. Follow Burt on Twitter @BurtPolson.
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