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Bayless & Hicks provides comprehensive Project Management services for major public and private homebuilders, banks and private investors.  Services include Due Diligence, Entitlements, Agency Permits, Land Development Approvals, and Brokerage, taking sites from raw land through finished lots and disposition.

B&H provides in depth analysis of the development potential of sites.  Tasks include:

  • Permit Fee Schedule

  • Review of Geotechnical Report

  • Review of Phase 1 ESA, and Phase II if applicable

  • Development Cost Estimate (site improvements, consultants, fees)

  • Competitive Market Analysis

  • Proforma & Cash Flow modeling

  • List of Project and Entitlement Risk Factors

  • Environmental Agency Issues (special status species, wetlands, etc.)

  • Review of Flood & Drainage Issues

  • Title Exception Review and Analysis (easements, recorded documents, etc.)

 

Due Diligence

B&H has earned a reputation with local jurisdictions for providing comprehensive application materials for thought out, environmentally sensitive design that both applicant and Agency will be proud of for years to come.  Entitlements include:

  • Annexations & Tax Sharing Agreements

  • Williamson Act Cancellations

  • General Plan Amendments

  • Specific Plans

  • Development Agreements

  • Reimbursement Agreements

  • Rezones

  • Large Lot Maps

  • Tentative Maps

  • Improvement Plans

  • Special Project Design-Builds (sewer facilities, bridges, recycled water systems)

  • Dry Utility Plans

  • Final Maps

  • Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) processing with FEMA

  • Community Facility District (Mello Roos) Formation, Bond Sale, and Funding

  • SCIP Bond Formation and Funding

  • Lighting & Landscape District Formation

 

Since 2013, B&H has processed entitlements tranforming raw land into over 3,400

tentative mapped residential lots.  

Entitlements
Agency Permits

Processing and obtaining environmental agency permits is a skill that B&H principals have been doing for the past 20 plus years in the ever-changing environment of environmental permits. Agencies include:

  • US Army Corps of Engineers

  • US Fish & Wildlife

  • California Department of Fish & Wildlife

  • California Regional Water Quality Control Boards

  • State Office of Historic Preservation

  • California Environmental Protection Agency

  • Department of Toxic Substance Control

  • Local Environmental Health Agencies

B&H provides land development approval services under consulting agreements with major public and private homebuilders, banks, and investors.  Tasks include the coordination of Improvement Plan design, Final Map, Landscape Plans, Dry Utility Plans, value engineering, scopes of work, and bidding of all land development improvements to allow for timely and coordinated construction of subdivison improvements by our customers. Improvement coordination includes grading, wet utilities, dry utitilies, paving, bridges, water tanks, trunk sewer facilities, wetland mitigation, parks, schools, etc.  B&H processes between 400 - 600 lots through improvement plan approval each year.

Land Development Approvals

SERVICES

Brokerage

John Bayless is a licenced California Real Estate Broker and provides land brokerage services for residential single family detached and multi-family projects in the greater Sacramento Area.  Having spent 10 years as a Division President for a regional builder, he developed excellent relationships with management of other national and regional builders active in the greater Sacramento region. 

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