Development Impact Analysis: Feasibility, Design, Traffic, Fiscal, Environment

This is a book for the planning practitioner written from the perspective of the planning consultant. It includes procedures, report formats, analytic techniques, and methods of public presentation for the five basic components of development filings and site plan review.

Development feasibility, residential and nonresidential development design, traffic impact analysis, fiscal impact analysis, and environmental impact analysis form the subject matter of individual sections. The latest in market analysis, computerized design, fiscal models, demographic multipliers, traffic estimation techniques, natural resource inventories, and EISs is covered in detail.

The collection of specially prepared papers comprises the following: Robert W. Burchell The Nature of Development Impact Analysis—A National View Stephen E. Roulac Evaluating the Forces and Actors That Influence Development Decisions Jared Shlaes The ABCs and Basic Software of Development Feasibility Lewis M. Goodkin Market Analyses Techniques for Residential and Nonresidential Development Gary Hack Reconsidering Site Planning— Or, Is There Life Beyond Cluster Housing? Lee E. Koppelman Architectural Design for Residential and Nonresidential Markets of the Mid Eighties John E. Rahenkamp and Michael J. Lofurno Environmental Sensitivity and Site Planning Everett C. Carter Data Bases for Traffic Impact Studies David Mendelson and Charles E. Davies Form and Content of the Traffic Impact Report Jawahar Mehra The Public Presentation of Traffic Impacts Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin Current Fiscal Impact Practice— Arithmetic and Econometric Approaches Paul S. Tischler Comprehensive and Simple Approaches to Fiscal Impact Analysis Deborah Brett Nonresidential Fiscal Impact Analysis Daniel R. Mandelker The Conflict Between Affordable Housing and Environmental Protection J. Toby Tourbier Techniques and Data Bases for Environmental Analysis Robert Dresnack Standard and Emerging Form of the Content and Style of the Project-Level E1S

Robert W. Burchell is professor II at Rutgers University and co-director at the Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University. An expert on fiscal impact analysis, land-use development and regulation, and housing policy, Burchell co-authored the Development Impact Assessment Handbook for the Urban Land Institute. His other publications include The Fiscal Impact Handbook, The Practitioner’s Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis, The Adaptive Reuse Handbook, and the Environmental Impact Handbook.