Impact Fees -- Schools

PAS MEMO. Gregory, Michelle. Impacts Fees for Schools. December,
1993.

Summary

Impact Fees have been used by local governments to pay for and
control the rate of development since the 1970s. As federal
assistance to local jurisdictions for housing and infrastructure
development evaporated, communities increasingly began to rely on
these user fees to provide public services to new development.
Such fees are also obviously more politically palatable than
raising property taxes. 

This article discusses general criteria for drafting ordinances,
gathering data and establishing the need for schools, determining
fee amounts, siting and maps, refunds, and dedicating land from
the developer for schools.

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Planning, 2 1/2 Beacon Street, Concord, NH during regular business
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