Get insights on essential tools to getting your project off the ground. Lerch Early's real estate attorneys will present four sessions focusing on Structuring Mixed-Use Projects, Tax Credit Financing 101 for Development Projects, Making Your Ground Lease Financeable, and Tax Deferred Exchanges Using Condemnation Proceeds.
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I. Why division of land and/or improvements is
necessary in a mixed-use project
Structuring Mixed-Use Projects
• Division of the uses in the project, horizontally, vertically, or both,
so that the parcels can be separately owned, financed and
developed either by the Owner, the Owner and its joint venture
partners, or unrelated parties
• Cross easement agreements (REAs) are required for access,
ingress and egress, utilities, parking, etc.
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II. Options for division of land/improvements
A. Horizontal subdivision of land
– Public process, including any amendments to record lot lines
– Can take a long time
– Creates 2 or more subdivided record lots, each of which is subject
to land use and zoning requirements on its own, such as setbacks,
building restriction lines, etc.
Structuring Mixed-Use Projects
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B. Condominiums
– Creature of state and local laws; recording of condo documents
against entire record lot
– May be horizontal division of land (i.e., land condo) and/or vertical
division of land and improvements (i.e., air rights condo)
– Layers of condominium regimes are typical in a mixed-use project
– Residential uses within condos are subject to consumer protection
laws
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C. Homeowners Associations
– Like condos, are typically creatures of state and local laws; requires
recording of HOA documents
– Difference between HOAs and condos is that the common areas/facilities
are not owned in common by the Owners; conveyed by the developer in
fee simple to the HOA for maintenance and operation of such common
areas/facilities
– Very heavy on restrictive covenants and architectural controls
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D. Air Rights Lots
– 3-dimensional parcels created within a single record lot reflecting
ownership interests in the underlying record lot AND the air above
– A condo regime may be established within an air rights lot
– Requires a reciprocal easement agreement
– Not permitted in some jurisdictions; in those, condominiums are
more common
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E. Ownership Units (Montgomery County, MD specific)
– Created by the County subdivision regulations to establish and document
different ownership interests in separate portions of an underlying record
lot; must use entire record lot
– Must be horizontal; REA is required by regulations
– Recent DPS treatment and review of ownership units has made them not
as attractive for use with existing development because of requirement
of professional certifications
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