This page provides links to a number of web sites that are not affiliated with the National Impact Fee Roundtable (NIFR) but that contain information related to impact fees that may be of interest to our members. NIFR makes no warranty about the accuracy of the information posted on these web sites
Local Governments
Local Impact Fee Websites - A web page sponsored by the Duncan Associates consulting firm that contains links to hundreds of local government impact fee schedules, ordinances and impact fee studies, organized by state.
Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Impact Fees (links to several publications)
Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission, Impact Fee Development for New Hamshire Communities, 1999
Kansas City, MO, Road Impact Fee Independent Assessment Guidelines
Development Impact Fees for Minnesota? A Review of Principles and National Practices, 1999
News Articles/Newsletters
News Articles -- Updated daily, a web page sponsored by the Duncan Associates consulting firm that contains pdf files of news articles relating to impact fees. Searchable archives go back to January 2007.
Legal Resources
Legal Information Institute, Links to State Statutes on the Web
Clancy Mullen, State Impact Fee Enabling Acts, updated October 2008 -- a compilation and summary by an impact fee consultant of general impact fee enabling acts adopted by the 27 states that have them
Ed Young, TN Advisory Comm on Intergovtl Relations, Paying for Growth: Development Taxes and Impact Fees, 2002 -- a summary of special acts and generalized authority for impact fees and development taxes in Tennessee
Deborah Galardi, Tyson Smith and Fred McVey, Oregon Law on System Development Charges, 2003
Essays/Reports
Lize Bowles and Arthur C. Nelson, Impact Fees: Equity and Housing Affordability, A Guidebook for Practitioners, HUD, April 2007
Arthur C. Nelson and Mitch Moody, Paying for Prosperity: Impact Fees and Job Growth, Brookings Institution, June 2003. The authors find that impact fees are not a drag on local economies. They do not appear to slow job growth, and may actually benefit local economic development by increasing the supply of buildable land with access to infrastructure.
Dr. Vicki Been, Impact Fees and Housing Affordability, 2004 HUD-sponsored research
Deborah Galardi, et. al., Utility Development Fee Trends, 2003
Reference Tools
U.S. Census, Population and Housing Data-Detailed Tables
U.S. Census, Building Permits by County or Place
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index
Fee Surveys
Duncan Associates, National Impact Fee Survey: 2008, October 2008 -- Introduced by a summary of 2008 fees and an analysis of fee increases over the last year and the last four years, this on-going survey by an impact fee consultant includes 280 jurisdictions. Average fees per dwelling unit or per 1,000 square feet of nonresidential development by facility type for single-family detached, multi-family, retail, office and industrial land uses.
League of Oregon Cities, System Development Charges, May 2007 -- a survey of Oregon cities with transportation, park, water, wastewater and drainage fees per single-family unit and for a prototype office building.
GAO, Survey of Local Growth Issues, 2000. The U.S. Government Accountability Office surveyed 1,926 local governments, including all cities with populations over 25,000 and all counties in metropolitan areas) on whether they charged impact fees and received an 81-percent response rate.
Georgia Department of Community Affairs, GOMI 2007: County Government Information Catalog (section 4d shows, for each Georgia county, what types of impact fees are charged)
Georgia Department of Community Affairs, GOMI 2006: Municipal Government Information Catalog (section 4d shows, for each Georgia city, what types of impact fees are charged)
Maryland counties, total impact fee per single-family unit in 2006 and estimated revenues in 2005, in an analysis of legislation for St. Mary's County
Jefferson County, CO, Colorado Drainage Impact Fees, August 2005
Diane Kushlan, Survey of Impact Fees in Idaho, October 2004
Transportation
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, National Household Travel Survey, 2001
Florida Dept. of Transportation, Quality/Level of Service Handbook
David P.Racca, “Active Adult (55+) Community Trip Generation Rates,” prepared for the Delaware Center for Transportation and the Delaware Department of Transportation, Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research, University of Delaware, Newark Delaware, January 2006
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