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

General:
The Basics for Development Exactions, Chapin, FSU
Utility Development Fee Trends, Galardi (2003)
Practical Issues in Adopting Local Impact Fees, Kolo and Dicker (1993)
Growth Management Principles and Practices: Facility Financing, Nelson and Duncan (1995)
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)
Can Impact Fees Be Fair and Equitable?, Dotzour
The Emergence of Impact Fees as a Way of Paying for Growth, Bunnell (1993)
Exactions and Impact Fees, Freeman, Shigley and Fulton
Spreading Up-Front Costs Spurs Development, Temple (1996)
Who Pays the Costs of Growth?,  Harmon (2001)
Is it Time to Look at Impact Fees?, North (2003)
Getting Business Off the Public Dole: ... Laws to Curb Corporate Welfare Abuse, 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
Negotiations or Impact Fees?, Starn (1989)
Impact Fees and the Role of the State: Guidance for Drafting Regulations, HUD (1993)
Municipal Imlementation Tool: Impact Fees, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (2004)
Incidence of Development Fees and Tax Assessments, Yinger (1998)
Who Pays Development Fees?, Yinger (1995)
Financing City Services; A Prescription for the Future, Kitchens (2004)
Financing Infrastructure Over Time, Levinson (2000)
Pros and Cons of Paying for Growth with Impact Fees, Bunnell (1994)
Federal Grants to State and Local Governments: A Brief History, Canada (2003)
Exactions, Dedications and Impact Fees, Delaney (2000)
Building for Tomorrow: Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, NAHB
Development Impact Fees: An Overview, Verber (2004)
Development Exactions: Process and Planning Issues, Evans-Cowley (2006)
Impact Fees and Housing Affordability, Newport Partners & Nelson (2006)
A Short Overview of Development Impact Fees, Brown & Lyons (2003)

Cost of Growth:
Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond: The Cost of Growth, Burchell
Fiscal Cost of Sprawl - Colorado, Coynes (2003)
The Costs of Growth: A Brief Overview, Mullen (2002)
Recouping the Cost of Development in Rural Areas - Impact Fees and Beyond, Bise (2004)
How We Pay for Growth, Fulton (2003)
Costs of Development, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin (2001)
Growth & Taxes: The Keystone of Fiscal Health, Hayward (1996)

Smart Growth:
 Paying the Costs of Sprawl: Using Fair-Share Costing to Control Sprawl, Snider and Bird (1998)
Impact Fees and Growth Management, Mullen (2002)
Development Impact Fees, Maricopa Association of Governments (2002)
Development Impact Fees: Is Limited Cost Internalization Actually Smart Growth?, Rosenberg
Impact Fees - The Non-Renewable Resource, Davies
Using Impact Fees to Reward Development, Nozi (1994)
Implementing Smart Growth with Impact Fees, National APA Conference (2003)
How Development Impact Fees Can Discourage Low-Density Development, Ridlington (2003)
New, Novel Wacky Impact Fees, Nicholas (2002)
To Environmental Mitigation Fees and Beyond, Nicholas and Juergensmeyer
Local governments skirt state law with creative uses of impact fees, Staley (2002)

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: A Literature Review, Evans-Cowley (2003)
Empirical Investigation of Effects of Impact Fees on Housing and Land Markets, Ihlanfeldt (2000)

Economic Implications:
Paying for Prosperity: Impact Fees and Job Growth, Nelson and Moody (2003)
Growth & Taxes, The Keystone of Fiscal Health, Hayward (1996)
Impact Fees: A Vote of Confidence for Economic Growth?, Theis and Giardina (2003)
Impact Fees are Good for Business Arizona Daily Star (2004)
Impact Fees Don't Stunt County Growth Rockford Register Star (2004)
Impact of Property Taxes and Growth Restrictions on Real Estate, Rainey (2000)
Taxing Development: The Economics of Impact Fees, Powell et al (2006)

Legal Implications:
Do Fee Waivers, Exemptions and Other Classifications Satisfy Equal Protection...?, McCrory (2004)
Takings Challenge to Development Impact Fees, Schwartz (2004)
Cracking Down On Illegal Impact Fees, Hubbard (2003)
Other Recent Utah Cases of Interest in Land Use, Call (2004)
Exactions, Impact Fees and Other Land Development Conditions, [pdf] Callies (1998)
Takings Formulism and Regulatory Formulas: Exactions and the Consequences of Clarity, Fenster
Street and Road Exactions After Dolan, Callies (2000)
Imposing Impact Fees and Conditions on the Development of Property, Call (2002)

Educational Facilities:
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 Public School Impact Fees, Sullivan (2000)
Paying for Schools: Does Smart Growth Matter?, Greenwood (2004)
Rethinking School Impact Fees, Washington Research Council (1995)
School Impact Fees, Fishkind (2004)
Courting Impact Fees for Schools, Hood (2004)

Anti-Impact Fee Positions:
 The Real Impact of Impact Fees, Boutin (2002)
The Impact Hammer: Respecting the Power of Impact Fees on Development, Taylor (2004)
Impact Fees: A Good Idea Gone Bad, Killian (2004)
Consumers Guide to Understanding Impact Fees, NAHB (2000)
Impact Fees: Truth and Consequences of Bad Policy, Wagner (2003)
Impact of Government Regulations and Fees on Housing Costs Wash. Research Council (2001)
Flaws in Brookings Impact Fee Report Cited, Izadi (2003)
An Examination of the Effects of Impact Fees on Chicago's Suburbs, Baden and Coursey (1998)
Concept Misused: Impact Fees an Inexact Science, Staley (2001)
The Myths About Impact Fees, Deames (1998)
Impact Fees: The Welcome, Stranger Tax, Schaftel (2003)
Away with Impact Fees, Professional Builder (2004)
Impact Fees: A Panel Discussion, Prosser
Development Mitigation Fees: A Tool for Extorting Money from Property Owners?, Hubbard (2005)
Challenges of Growth, Homebuilders Association of Raleigh-Wake County (2000)
The Little House That Could, O'Toole (2001)
Repealing the Negative Effect of Impact Fees, Evergreen Freedom Foundation (2001)
What Attainable Housing?The Truth About Impact Fees, Martell (2003)
Impact Fees: The Non-Renewable Resource, Davies (2000)
The Last Straw, Lisa Marquis Jackson (2005)

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