Work on the Economics of Growth, Development, Sprawl, and Farmland Preservation

• Overview report on Cost of Community Service Studies (17 studies in 3 states)
• Farmland Preservation in Georgia: Three Possible Roads to Success (a long report written on May 10, 2004 with tables and charts)
• Abstract and Executive Summary of Above Report (smaller file)
• Powerpoint Presentation on the Economics of Growth and Land Use
• Report on the Cost of Community Service in Four Georgia Counties
  • (This report compares revenues provided by different land uses to the costs of servicing those lands; the categories are residential, commercial/industrial, and farm/forest lands)
• Powerpoint Presentation of Results for up to 11 Georgia counties (small file)
  • This file shows graphs with results from cost of community service studies in 11 Georgia counties done over the past few years.  The above report has more details of how to interpret these graphs.
• Protecting Farmland in Developing Communities: A Case Study of the Tax Implications of Conservation Easements (another pretty long report)