Split, subdivide or leave it whole: the decision memo

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Every holder of a large tract eventually asks whether it is worth more carved up than kept whole. That question is really three options, and a model's instinct is to answer one of them with a lot count and a price per lot. Both numbers sit exactly where invention lives. A split turns on two things: the ordinance's lot standards, and the land left usable once roads, setbacks, easements and flood area come out. Gross acreage answers neither. Lay the three options side by side with the same rows: what the regulations require for each path, quoted; what kind of approval each needs; what it will cost and take; and what it does to the land you keep. The model quotes what you pasted, sets up any lot arithmetic in the open for you to verify, and fills every cost, timeline and value cell with [NEEDS: ...]. It never says a subdivision will be approved. That is a discretionary local decision, and the memo's job is to show what you would be betting on.

Compare three options for this tract: leave it whole, a minor split, a major subdivision. Same rows for each. Quote the regulations for every standard; set up any lot arithmetic in the open, tagged [COMPUTED - verify]; every cost, timeline and value reads [NEEDS: ...]. Do not recommend an option and do not predict approval.