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  • Land Use Economist

    Carson Bise has 24 years of fiscal, economic and planning experience and has conducted fiscal and infrastructure finance evaluations in 37 states. Mr. Bise has developed and implemented more fiscal impact models than any consultant in the country. The applications which Mr. Bise has developed have been used for evaluating multiple land use scenarios, specific development projects, annexations, urban service provision, tax-increment financing, and concurrency/adequate public facilities monitoring. Mr. Bise is also a leading national figure in the calculation of impact fees, having completed over 200 impact fees for the following categories: parks and recreation, open space, police, fire, schools, water, sewer, roads, municipal power, and general government facilities. In his seven years as a planner at the local government level, he coordinated capital improvement plans, conducted market analyses and business development strategies, and developed comprehensive plans. Mr. Bise has also written and lectured extensively on fiscal impact analysis and infrastructure financing. Mr. Bise is currently on the Board of Directors of the Growth and Infrastructure Finance Consortium and recently Chaired the American Planning Association's Paying for Growth Task Force. He was also recently named an Affiliate of the National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education.

     

  • Author

    Mr. Bise has written and lectured extensively on fiscal impact analysis and infrastructure financing. His most recent publications are Next Generation Transportation Impact Fees, published by the American Planning Association's Planners Advisory Service, Fiscal Impact Analysis: Methodologies for Planners, published by the American Planning Association (APA), a chapter on fiscal impact analysis in the book Planning and Urban Design Standards, also published by the APA, and the ICMA IQ Report, Fiscal Impact Analysis: How Today's Decisions Affect Tomorrow's Budgets. Mr. Bise was also the principal author of the fiscal impact analysis component for the Atlanta Regional Commission's Smart Growth Toolkit and is featured in the recently released AICP CD-ROM Training Package entitled The Economics of Density.

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  • Speaker

    Carson Bise is frequently called upon to speak on fiscal/economic impact analysis and impact fees for various national groups and organizations including the American Planning Association, the National Association of Homebuilders, Growth and Infrastructure Consortium (formally the National Impact Fee Roundtable), the Urban Land Institute and the Government Finance Officers Association. Some of his recent speaking engagements are listed below:

    - Fiscal Impact Assessment, AICP Training Workshop, APA National Planning Conference

    - Dealing with the Cost of Growth: From Soup to Nuts, ICMA National Conference

    - Demand Numbers for Impact Analysis, National Impact Fee Roundtable

    - Calculating Infrastructure Needs with Fiscal Impact Models, Florida Chapter of the APA Conference

    - Economic Impact of Home Building, National Impact Fee Roundtable

    - Annexation and Economic Development, APA National Conference

    - Economics of Density, APA National Conference

    - The Cost/Benefit of Compact Development Patterns, APA National Conference

    - Fiscal Impact Modeling: A Tool for Local Government Decision Making, ICMA National Conference

    - Fiscal Assessments, APA National Conference

    - From Soup to Nuts: Paying for Growth, APA National Conference

    - Growing Pains, ICMA National Conference

    - Mitigating the Impacts of Development in Urban Areas, Florida Chapter of the APA

    - Impact Fee Basics, National Impact Fee Roundtable

    - Fiscal Impact Analysis and Impact Fees, National Impact Fee Roundtable

    - Are Subsidies Worth It?, APA National Conference

     

  • Expert

    As a nationally recognized expert on fiscal, economic and infrastructure financing matters pertaining to local governments, Mr. Bise is frequently asked to serve as an expert witness in litigation matters, as well as give expert testimony in land use cases. This experience includes:

    - Provided expert Englewood, New Jersey, land use case

    - Defense of Frederick County, Virginia, cash proffers related to annexation

    - Analyzing the proportionality of Youngstown, Ohio's, Prisoner Accommodation Fee assessed on the Correction Corporation of America's Northeast Ohio Correctional Center

    - Expert testimony for Pinal County, Arizona, related to the applicability of their development fee program to development agreements

    - Expert analysis for the private sector in connection with Lionetti Associates, LLC t/a Lorco Petroleum Services v. City of Elizabeth, NJ and Liberty Water Company

    - Expert analysis for the private sector in connection with Papetti's Hygrade Egg Products, Inc v. City of Elizabeth, NJ and Liberty Water Company>

    - Expert analysis for the private sector in connection with City of Palmdale, CA v. Palmdale Water District

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