Municipal graveyard relocation in Lagos's coastal wards presents a compensation design problem in which households decide whether to consent to exhumation and reburial when the municipal valuation ceiling is fixed and non-negotiable. The framework is specified for a coastal-ward setting in which relocation is compulsory in principle but consent is required in practice, and in which the counterfactual density of valuations is recoverable from administrative records of comparable interments. Because no household-level relocation records were available for the present analysis, the paper is methodological and conceptual: it derives the bunching estimator, states its identifying assumptions, characterises the bias that arises when consent withdrawal is misread as valuation manipulation, and specifies the data architecture that would permit estimation. The contribution is a discipline-aware reframing of graveyard relocation compensation as a threshold-response problem in urban sociology, with implications for how municipal valuers, ward officials and household representatives negotiate the boundary between compulsory acquisition and consent.
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