Pursuant to the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, "Development rights" means any right or combination of rights reserved by a declarant in a declaration. The purpose of the declaration [..]

The legal rights of a landowner to develop his/her property.

The rights to develop land, as distinguished from ownership of it. Similar but broader than conservation easement, because development rights may be purchased with the aim of developing instead of conserving private land.

is a term applied to a broad range of less-than-fee-simple ownership interests mainly referring to easement. Thus the owner can retain complete or absolute (fee simple) rights to his her land use and sell the development rights to another. The owner would keep the title but agree to continue using the land as it had been used in the past [..]