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Development Type R-1 R-3 R-4 Mix (R-4 portion only) Table 3 Municipal Revenues Generated $39,494.00 $100,207.00 $176,830.00 $87,738.00 Non -Residential Municipal Expenditures $66,355.00 $163,300.00 $140,415.00 $69,690.00 Typical costing techniques do not work well in projecting develop- ment costs for non-residential (commercial and industrial) develop- ment in Mounds View due to the residential nature of the city. Applying typical projection methods yield outrageously high munici- pal service cost projections for new commercial and industrial development. Of the three projection methods appropriate for this study, only one (Case Study) would have any validity for this analysis of commercial and industrial development impact. The Case Study method generally employs intensive site specific investigations to determine exact categories of excess or deficient public service capacity. These excesses or deficiencies are then added to or subtracted from estimates of operating and capital demands passed by growth for each municipal department. For example,) the park department director, Bruce Anderson, has indicated that the park maintenance program is currently understaffed. This deficiency in current staffing must be recognized prior to charging any new development with the cost of upgrading the staffing to accomodate such development. The basic data needed to conduct a Case Study analysis comes from estimates made by local municipal employees. These estimates depend on data collection systems that the City of Mounds View does not now use. For example, the police department collects data by geo- graphic sector not by land use type. Because the city's land use patterns do not fall neatly into geographic areas, it is difficult to make assumptions about various service costs depending on land use type. While there is no better method to use for detailed results, the Case Study method is complex and costly. It requires extensive data collection over a period of time with the assistance of sophisticated equipment. The Hounds View staff has supplied us with excellent data. However, since city records arc not kept by land use type, projections based on that data can be guesses at best. In order to obtain relatively accurate expenditures generated by commercial and industrial development, I feel that some additional$ information is needed from the city. The data required would have to be collected over a period of time lengthy enough to be repre- sentative. The type of information necessary might include: the (4)