Summary

If a user (even JIRA Admins) doesn't have Administer Projects permission, he/she can't see the Development tools link/page from the respective Project Settings.

Steps to reproduce

1. Log in as a JIRA Admin who has Administer Projects permission in a project (usually granted to Project role Administrators)
2. Go to Project Settings of the project -> Ensure Development tools link is still available
3. Go to Users and roles -> Remove own account from Administrators role -> Refresh the page

Actual behavior

The Development tools link mysteriously disappears:

Manually accessing the page URL gets this misleading error:

Expected behavior

The JIRA Admin should be able to view the link and page contents, assuming that he/she has:

1. JIRA Software application access
2. View Development Tools permission

In case only Project Admins are supposed to view the page, the link should still be there and accessing it displays some more meaningful message.

Documentation needs updating too: Defining a project - Development tools

Workaround

Only Project Admins can see the link and view the page.