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1	A Collection of Results on the Costs and Revenues from Different Land Use Classes in Georgia Jeffrey H. Dorfman The University of Georgia July 2004
2	What Follows The following charts show how different land uses provide different amounts of revenue to local governments relative to the cost of providing services. For example, residential development pays less than $1 in revenue from all sources to county government in exchange for each $1 received in service expenditures. The results account for all operating expenditures by the county government and all sources of county revenue (property tax, sales tax, fees, grants, etc.). In the charts that include school costs, only local spending is included, not state funding.
3	Understanding the Charts The charts show bars representing residential, commercial and industrial, and farm and forest land categories of land use (plus one chart for manufactured housing as a special type of residential development). The shorter the bar, the less revenue provided for each dollar of spending on that land use category. Bars less than $1 in height represent a land use that is not paying enough in direct revenue to cover the cost of services received.
4	County Government Only 12 Georgia Counties
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6	Results for Manufactured Housing 5 GA Counties
7	Further Information Jeffrey Dorfman can be contacted at 706.542.0754 (by phone) jdorfman@agecon.uga.edu (by phone) More information can be found on the web at www.arches.uga.edu/~jdorfman/