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This paper evaluates the financial tools available to fund stormwater infrastructure (property taxes, development charges or cash-in-lieu payments, grants, borrowing, and user charges), and proposes user charges as the most appropriate.
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This report reviews tax increment financing (TIF) and land value capture (LVC), two alternative sources of revenue to support new infrastructure and development for which municipal funds are not readily available. It simulates a 30-year TIF implementation along the Sheppard East corridor in Toronto.
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In this presentation, IMFG and today’s leading infrastructure thinkers and practitioners convene for a conversation about how to overcome cost overruns on public infrastructure projects.
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This video features an event hosted by IMFG and today’s leading infrastructure thinkers and practitioners on how to overcome cost overruns on public infrastructure projects. The event followed the release of a new paper by Matti Siemiatycki for IMFG, called Cost Overruns on Major Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and Cures.
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The three main explanations for cost overruns and delays are technical challenges, over-optimism, and strategic misrepresentations. This paper looks at the root of persistent cost overruns on public megaprojects, and proposes ways to fix this problem.
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In this presentation, Dr. Murtaza Haider reviews land value capture projects in the United States and Canada, and shares original findings from an IMFG study on Toronto’s Sheppard East subway extension and its impact on surrounding property values.
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Are infrastructure financing tools underutilized when it comes to planning for smart growth? Do we run the risk of undercutting “smart growth” efforts if we assume infrastructure financing tools to be growth-neutral?
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Conventional wisdom and the literature in urban planning suggest that high density built form is preferable to low density because it is more environmentally sustainable and results in lower hard infrastructure costs. This presentation entertains the other side of the argument: that high density built form can increase soft infrastructure costs.
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