Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Subdividing Land? Power & Roads Are The LAW! #shorts

29 May 2026 · 1 min

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When you subdivide land in the US, you must provide electricity and road access. Developments over five lots need a backup power source. Agricultural parcels of 40 acres in Nevada or 36-38 acres in Arizona can skip these requirements, but everything else needs full infrastructure before sale.

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Are you in the deal room? Said that it has to have energy emergency energy station because it's more than 5 lots. So anytime I talk to somebody, I'm like, what's your plan for energy? When they're talking about more than 5 lots and they're like, well, we're going to go off-grid, you're not going to subdivide anything in this United States and not supply it with energy. They won't let you. It's a law, right? So unless it's over 40 acres— Nevada's 40 acres, Arizona's 38, 36 acres, right? So then it's completely agricultural use. You can sell it without power. But anywhere else that you have something and you're gonna divide it into pieces for people, you have to supply the power, the road, and all this stuff from there.