Infrastructure Financing
Critical to managing urban growth is providing public facilities to accommodate it. Ideally, users of public facilities will pay their proportionate costs. Otherwise, higher-cost development may be subsidized by lower-cost development resulting in economically perverse outcomes. Dr. Nelson has helped pioneer methodologies to achieve economically efficient pricing of public facilities as well as studies showing how such pricing leads to efficient land use patterns.
Arthur C. Nelson, James C. Nicholas and Julian C. Juergensmeyer. 2009. Impact Fees: Principles and Practice of Proportionate-Share Development Fees. Chicago: American Planning Association.
Karen Seggerman, Arthur C. Nelson, et al. 2009. Florida Mobility Fee Study. Center for Transportation Research, University of South Florida.
Greg Burge, Arthur C. Nelson, Trey Trosper, James Nicholas, and Julian Juergensmeyer, Can Development Impact Fees Help Mitigate Urban Sprawl? Journal of the American Planning Association.
Arthur C. Nelson. 1995. "Development Impact Fees: The Next Generation," Urban Lawyer, 26(3): 541-562.
Arthur C. Nelson. 1995. Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater System Development Charges. Boca Raton, FL: CRC and Lewis Publishers.
Arthur C. Nelson with James E. Frank and James C. Nicholas. 1992. "Positive Influence of Impact-Fee Policy in Urban Planning and Development," Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 118(2): 59-64.
Arthur C. Nelson with James C. Nicholas, and Julian C. Juergensmeyer. 1990. "Critical Elements of Impact Fee Programs." Journal of Urban Planning and Development 116(1): 34-47.