links to website articles, speeches and presentations relating to impact fees

General:

• The Basics for Development Exactions, Chapin, FSU, 2006
• Utility Development Fee Trends, Galardi, 2003
• Practical Issues in Adopting Local Impact Fees, Kolo and Dicker, 1993
• Impact Fees: Practical Guide for Calculation, Ross and Thorpe, 1991
• Development Impact Fees: A Primer, Carrion and Libby, 2004
• Calculating System Development Charges for Stormwater Facilities, Nelson, 1995
• Who Pays the Costs of Growth?, Harmon, 2001
• Getting Business Off the Public Dole: , Benson, 1995
• The Price of Progress: Infrastructure Payment Plans You Can Live With, Lucero, 1997
• Financing Parks: A Pay-As-You-Go Guide, Project for Public Spaces
• Municipal Imlementation Tool: Impact Fees, Delaware Valley Regional Plan. Comm., 2004
• Incidence of Development Fees and Tax Assessments, Yinger, 1998
• Financing City Services; A Prescription for the Future (Canada), Kitchens, 2004
• Financing Infrastructure Over Time, Levinson, 2000
• Federal Grants to State and Local Governments: A Brief History, Canada, 2003
• Building for Tomorrow: Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, NAHB, 2003
• Development Impact Fees: An Overview, Verber, 2004
• Development Exactions: Process and Planning Issues, Evans-Cowley, 2006
• Impact Fees in Florida; Evaluating Florida’s Growth Management, Ashgate Press, 2007
• Impact Fees: Your Rights as a Fee Payer, Builders Association of Greater Indianapolis
• Impact Fees: Myths versus Fact, League of Arizona Cities and Towns, 2009
• A Short Overview of Impact Fees (California), Brown & Lyons, 2003
• Impact Fee Primer: The Perfect Impact Fee Act, Duncan and Virginia APA, 2009
• Impact Fees and Development Activity: Evidence from Florida, Mullen and Nicholas, 2010

Cost of Growth:

• Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond: The Cost of Growth, Heimlich, 2001
• Fiscal Cost of Sprawl – Colorado, Coynes, 2003
• The Costs of Growth: A Brief Overview, Mullen, 2002
• How We Pay for Growth, Fulton, 2003
• Urban Sprawl and the Finances of State and Local Governments, Mcguire, 2002
• Information Paper on the Cost of Sprawl, Puget Sound Regional Council, 2005

Smart Growth:

• Paying the Costs of Sprawl: Using Fair-Share Costing to Control Sprawl, Snider, 1998
• Impact Fees and Growth Management, Mullen, 2002
• Development Impact Fees, Maricopa Association of Governments, 2002
• How Impact Fees Can Discourage Low-Density Development, Ridlington, 2003
• To Environmental Mitigation Fees and Beyond, Nicholas and Juergensmeyer, 2003
• How Can Impact Fees Help Achieve Smart Growth, New Jersey Future, 2004

Housing Implications:

• Impact Fees and Housing Affordability, Been, 2004
• Impact Fees and Housing Affordablity, Mullen, 2003
• Effects of Impact Fees on Cost of Housing and Land, Evans-Cowley, 2003
• Empirical Investigation of Effects of Impact Fees on Housing Markets, Ihlanfeldt, 2000
• Effects of Proportionate-Share Impact Fees, Housing Policy Debate, 2007

Economic Implications:

• Who Pays for Development Fees and Exactions?, Dresch & Sheffrin, 1997
• Paying for Prosperity: Impact Fees and Job Growth, Nelson and Moody, 2003
• Impact Fees: A Vote of Confidence for Economic Growth?, Theis and Giardina, 2003
• Development Impact Fees and Employment, Burge and Ihlanfeldt, 2008

Legal Implications:

• Exactions, Dedications and Impact Fees, Delaney, 2000
• Kansas Attorney General Opinion Relating to Impact Fees (No. 2006-17) , Phill Kline, 2006
• Takings Challenge to Development Impact Fees, Schwartz, 2004
• Exactions, Impact Fees and Other Land Development Conditions, Callies, 1998
• Street and Road Exactions After Dolan, Callies, 2000
• Infrastructure and the Law: Florida’s Past, Present and Future , Juergensmeyer, 2008

Education Facilities:

• Are Impact Fees a Viable Resource for Schools Experiencing Growth?, Bangert, 2006
• School Impact Fees in Florida, Stroud, 1998
• Using Impact Fees to Finance Schools and Other Public Construction …, Esseks, 2003
• Land Use Management: Retirement Communities Evade School Impact Fees, Sullivan, 2000
• Rethinking School Impact Fees, Washington Research Council, 1995

Anti-Impact Fee Positions:

• Can Impact Fees Be Fair and Equitable?, Dotzour, 1993
• Impact Fees – The Non-Renewable Resource, Davies, 2000
• Taxing Development: The Law & Economics of Traffic Impact Fees, Powell et al, 2006
• Courting Impact Fees for Schools, Hood, 2004
• The Impact Hammer: Respecting Power of Impact Fees on Development, Taylor, 2004
• Impact Fees: Truth and Consequences of Bad Policy, Wagner, 2003
• Flaws in Brookings Impact Fee Report Cited, Izadi, 2003
• The Myths About Impact Fees, Deames, 1998
• Impact Fees: The Welcome, Stranger Tax, Schaftel, 2003
• Away with Impact Fees, Professional Builder, 2004
• The Little House That Could, O’Toole, 2001
• Repealing the Negative Effect of Impact Fees, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, 2001
• The Unfettered Impact Fee Industry, Brady, 2009
• The Local Economic Impact of a Typical Tax Credit Housing Project, NAHB, 2007
• The Local Impact of Home Building in a Typical Metro Area, NAHB, 2009
• A Field Guide to Development Impact Fees, National Association of Realtors, 2009

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