Elisa Hamblin, AICP currently serves as the Zoning Administrator for the City of Tucson, Arizona's 2nd largest municipality. She has two decades of experience in city planning, urban design, community engagement, and development review. She has previously worked on an award-winning General Plan for Oro Valley, Arizona, as well as …
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Elisa Hamblin, AICP currently serves as the Zoning Administrator for the City of Tucson, Arizona's 2nd largest municipality. She has two decades of experience in city planning, urban design, community engagement, and development review. She has previously worked on an award-winning General Plan for Oro Valley, Arizona, as well as Downtown planning in Portland, Oregon. Elisa led Tucson's impact fee program update from 2018-2020 and currently serves as a subject matter expert in it's administration.
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Arthur C. Nelson is professor emeritus of urban planning and real estate development at the University of Arizona, and presidential professor emeritus of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. Nelson is a nationally recognized authority on how demographic changes affect housing and land use planning. He is …
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Arthur C. Nelson is professor emeritus of urban planning and real estate development at the University of Arizona, and presidential professor emeritus of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. Nelson is a nationally recognized authority on how demographic changes affect housing and land use planning. He is also a leading authority on the relationship between transit and land use planning, as well as methods of mitigating the impacts of new development on infrastructure. Nelson is the author of more than 20 books and more than 400 other published works. He has has been the PI or Co-PI on more than $50 million in research sponsored by NSF, HUD, DOT, EPA, Commerce, among other agencies, nonprofits, foundations, firms, and think-tanks.
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Carson Bise has 30 years of fiscal, economic and planning experience and has conducted fiscal and infrastructure finance evaluations in 37 states. Mr. Bise has developed and implemented more fiscal impact models than any consultant in the country. The applications which Mr. Bise has developed have been used for evaluating …
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Carson Bise has 30 years of fiscal, economic and planning experience and has conducted fiscal and infrastructure finance evaluations in 37 states. Mr. Bise has developed and implemented more fiscal impact models than any consultant in the country. The applications which Mr. Bise has developed have been used for evaluating multiple land use scenarios, specific development projects, annexations, urban service provision, tax-increment financing, and concurrency/adequate public facilities monitoring. Mr. Bise is also a leading national figure in the calculation of impact fees, having completed over 250 impact fees for the following categories: parks and recreation, open space, police, fire, schools, water, sewer, roads, municipal power, and general government facilities. Mr. Bise holds an M.B.A. in Economics from Shenandoah University and a B.S. in both Geography/Urban Planning and Political Science/Urban Studies from East Tennessee State University. Mr. Bise has also written and lectured extensively on fiscal impact analysis and infrastructure financing. His most recent publications are Fiscal Impact Analysis: Methodologies for Planners, published by the American Planning Association, a chapter on fiscal impact analysis in the book Planning and Urban Design Standards, also published by the American Planning Association, and the ICMA IQ Report, Fiscal Impact Analysis: How Today’s Decisions Affect Tomorrow’s Budgets. Mr. Bise was also the principal author of the fiscal impact analysis component for the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Smart Growth Toolkit and is featured in the recently released AICP CD-ROM Training Package entitled The Economics of Density. Mr. Bise is currently on the Board of Directors of the Growth and Infrastructure Finance Consortium and recently Chaired the American Planning Association’s Paying for Growth Task Force. He was also recently named an Affiliate of the National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education.
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