Land Use and Permitting Clarity Before You Commit Capital

Black Oak Land and Capital

Est. 1989

We help Santa Barbara County property owners, buyers, architects, and investors surface constraints early.
So decisions are made with clarity, not assumptions, and projects avoid redesign, risk, and timeline drift.

Land use strategy informed by property, process, and risk

Clear guidance navigating entitlement approvals

Aligning capital decisions with regulatory realities

Serving Santa Barbara County including Santa Ynez Valley, Montecito, Hope Ranch, and coastal Santa Barbara.

Black Oak Land & Capital provides land use advisory services for property owners, architects, builders, and investors across Santa Barbara County. We also support projects in the Santa Ynez Valley as well with clear approval pathway planning, early constraint discovery, and practical permit expediting.

If you are considering an ADU, addition, remodel, grading, access improvements, or a new build, we help you reduce delays by aligning zoning, site constraints, agency requirements, and sequencing before expensive decisions get locked in. The result is a clearer plan, cleaner submittals, faster correction cycles, and fewer last minute surprises.

Experience Changed Our Perspective

"Moving here from Chicago and Los Angeles, like many others, we initially approached land use and permitting as a downstream task. Something to be managed after plans were formed and capital was committed.

Experience changed that view.

We saw how early assumptions quietly narrowed options. How small interpretive decisions affected timelines by months or even years. How projects became constrained not by design or intent, but by process and positioning.

Those lessons reshaped how we work."

Cris Lapp, Founder

Our Passion

• Land use strategy and feasibility
• Permitting and entitlement guidance
• Regulatory due diligence
• Approval pathway and sequencing planning
• Capital and risk alignment
• Agency and stakeholder navigation
• Project positioning and constraint management
• Advisory support for architects and professional teams
• Ongoing strategic advisory

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