State of California
Governor's Office of Planning and Research

Sources: An Annotated Bibliography for California Planners

Fiscal Impact Analysis

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Analyzing the Economic Feasibility of a Development Project, PAS Report No. 380 (1984); by Richard J. Roddewig and Jared Shlaes; $24.00 from the American Planning Association Planners Book Service, 122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1600 Chicago, IL 60603-6107, (312) 786-6344.
          This report offers a useful method for analyzing the impact of public incentives for private development. It provides examples of how to use this method on particular development projects.

Development Impact Analysis (1990), Robert W. Burchell, ed., available for $29.95 from the Center for Urban Policy Research, P.O. Box 489, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0489, (201) 932-3101.
          This 300 page tome describes procedures, analytic techniques, and public presentation methods for five basic components of development analysis: development feasibility; development design; traffic impact analysis; fiscal impact analysis; and environmental impact analysis.

Development Impact Assessment Handbook (1994), Robert Burchell, et al.; $124.95 from the Urban Land Institute, 625 Indiana Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20004-2930, 1-800-321-5011.
          A handbook and computer model for evaluating development proposals relative to their environmental and fiscal impacts.

The Fiscal Impact Handbook (1978); by Robert Burchell and David Listokin; $35, plus postage and handling, from the Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers - the State University, P.O. Box 489, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0489, (201) 932-3101.
          A manual for estimating the public costs of private development. It contains methods for projecting cost and revenue, projecting demand, and estimating population increases.

The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis (1985); by Robert W. Burchell, et al.; $10, plus postage and handling, from the Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers - the State University, P.O. Box 489, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0489, (201) 932-3101.
          This book offers methods for estimating the direct public costs associated with private development. It discusses means of projecting costs relative to both residential and non-residential development and offers demographic multipliers for the practitioner.