Champaign, Illinois

TischlerBise recently completed a two-phase fiscal impact study for the City of Champaign. Phase I was a Cost of Land Uses Study, which provided an understanding of how discrete land use categories currently impact the City’s finances. Specifically, the City was interested in knowing what existing development types in the City generate in terms of revenue versus the commensurate service and facility costs. In Phase II, TischlerBise evaluated the cost to serve new development in the future. One scenario assumed all future growth occurs within the current sanitary sewer service area. The second scenario assumed new growth is not contained within the current service area, resulting in a more scattershot development pattern. Our analysis found that capital costs were significantly lower under the scenario that assumes future development occurs within the current sanitary sewer service area.