ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides municipal officials, local staff planners, city managers/business administrators, and private planning consultants access to the information they need to make these decisions. It includes simple, straightforward procedural guides to estimate the costs and revenues associated with development. Persons who are involved in the public service costs and revenues of local growth can use the methods and data in this basic field manual to calculate fiscal impact of planned development. The book presents fiscal impact analysis methods to analyze cost-revenue impact. Fiscal impact considerations are legally authorized or fertile grounds for authorization can exist within the confines of numerous planning or planning-related tasks. The book aism to assemble and disseminate practitioner-oriented fiscal impact methods. It presents the actual procedures to project costs and revenues resulting from local population change.
