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Community Guide to Development Impact Analysis
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Year: 2000
An excellent first step in understanding a COCS study and how they can help shape your community. Defines the steps of conducting your own COCS, including linked worksheets and in-depth examples.
Cost of Community Services Studies: Making the Case for Conservation
Organization: American Farmland Trust
Year: 2007
Saving land saves money. More than 80 Cost of Community Services (COCS) studies conducted nationwide by the American Farmland Trust and others show that privately owned farm, forest and ranch lands generate more in local revenues than they require in services.
Farmland Information Center Fact Sheet: Cost of Community Services
Organization: American Farmland Trust
Year: 2010
Although working and open space lands may generate less revenue than residential, commercial or industrial property, they require less public infrastructure and fewer community services. Cost of Community Services studies from 25 states show that, on average, the median cost per dollar of revenue raised to provide public services for commercial and industrial lands was $0.29, for working and open space lands was $0.35, and for residential lands was $1.16.
Where Do We Grow From Here? Lesson 9: The Cost of Community Services
Organization: Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Year: 2001
This is one of a series of lesson plans taken from the State of Maryland’s Teacher’s Resource Guide on Growth and Its Impacts. Teachers can use the plan to illustrate how the costs of a community are impacted by different land uses.
