2006 Land Use Update

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2006 Land Use Update Video Seminar Series
(Fiscal Impact of Development)

• Thursday September 14, 2006
• Robert McCormick, Project Leader for the Planning
  With POWER Project at Purdue

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Resources for Fiscal Impacts of Development
(Costs of Community Services Studies)

• American Farmland Trust 2002 Cost of Community
  Services Studies Making the Case for
  Conservation (83 COCS studies in 19 states)
• Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Growth Dr.
  Robert Burchell, Rutgers University, October 2001
  and Sprawl Costs, 2005
• Dr. Larry DeBoer, Purdue Agricultural Economics
  Department (several Indiana studies)

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Resources for Fiscal Impacts of Development
(Costs of Community Services Studies), cont

• Most of the studies reveal that farmland, open
  space, and natural resource areas have a positive
  fiscal impact to communities (require less costs
  in services in relation to tax revenue generated).

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Contact Information
For more information on Planning with POWER,
including publications, activities and upcoming
events, or to schedule a program contact
Bob McCormick rmccormi_at_purdue.edu [phone]
195 Marsteller Forestry and Natural
Resources West Lafayette, IN 47907 Fax
765-496-6026
http//planningwithpower.org