FIAM USER GUIDE COVER II - Fiscal Impact Analysis Model - OKI

Fiscal Impact Analysis Model
User Guide
• Community Development. This category includes building permit and building
inspection, zoning, planning, community development services and economic
development funded by the jurisdiction. Community development services
provided to the jurisdiction but paid for by another local government entity are not
accounted for in the Model.
• Parks and Recreation. This category includes the purchase, improvement, and
maintenance of park and recreational facilities, staffing and programming of park
and recreational facilities and conservation activities (where applicable).
Facilities and services available to a jurisdiction’s residents but not funded
directly by the local government are not accounted for in the Model.
• General Government. This category includes all other operating costs,
including administration services, administration property maintenance,
accounting and financial management services, and others.
Land Use and Demographic Data
The Model relies on a generalized set of land use categories. The Model’s land use
categories were developed to capture key variations in land use characteristics that
have a significant impact on fiscal issues. For example, the Model includes a High
Traffic Retail category because businesses in this category typically have high volumes
of customers compared to their footprint, as well as unique employment characteristics
and wage rates. These issues will have distinct impacts on the revenues and
expenditures associated with this land use.
Users of the Model are asked to identify a proposed development site or land use
planning scenario according to its existing land uses and its proposed land uses, using
the Model’s land use categories. Guidance for identifying which land use categories to
apply is provided in Table 1 below and in Appendix B, which contains the specific land
use data assignments for each initial project partner community (See the Methodology
for a detailed explanation of the land use category assignment process).
The Model uses a detailed set of jurisdiction land use, demographic and economic
information to provide a basis for estimating impacts. Specific data requirements for
each land use category are as follows: gross square footage of improvements on the
land; the number of housing and/or business units on the land; the market value; the
number of acres in each land use category; the number of residents; the number of
residents age 65 or older; the number of residents younger than 19; employment; hourly
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