Local Fiscal Challenges and Planning Solutions

Bio: Gavin McMillan currently works as a Planner in the City of Louisville, Colorado, Money Magazine’s 2011 best place to live. He has eight years of experience working on current and long range planning initiatives in Colorado communities. Gavin’s recent accomplishments include serving as the project manager on the 2012 update of the Louisville Comprehensive Plan, and leading a planning effort to create a context sensitive and multimodal design solution for a state highway which runs adjacent to the City of Louisville's Urban Renewal District. He also worked to develop a Parking and Pedestrian Action Plan for Downtown Louisville which identifies 32 action steps focused on addressing downtown parking needs and pedestrian mobility challenges with the goal of enhancing the unique character of Old Town Louisville. Gavin has served as a juror on University of Colorado College of Architecture and Planning studio projects, and has presented Louisville’s Planning initiatives to numerous organizations including Downtown Colorado Inc.

Education: 2001 - University of Colorado Boulder - BS Marketing 2007 - University of Colorado at Denver - Masters of Urban and Regional Planning

Past Assignments: September 2011 - Downtown Colorado Incorporated (DCI) "Downtown, Parking, and Pedestrians - An action plan for Downtown Louisville"

Bio: Carson Bise has 20 years of fiscal, economic and planning experience and has conducted fiscal and infrastructure finance evaluations in 25 states. Mr. Bise has developed and implemented more fiscal impact models than any consultant in the country. The applications he 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 130 impact fees for the following categories: parks and recreation, open space, police, fire, schools, water, sewer, roads, municipal power and general government facilities. In his six years as a planner at the local government level, he coordinated capital improvement plans, conducted market analyses and business development strategies, and developed comprehensive plans. 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.

Education: B.S. Geography, East Tennessee State University B.S. Political Science, East Tennessee State University M.B.A., Economics, Shenandoah University

Key Publications: Fiscal Impact Analysis: Methodologies for Planners, American Planning Association. Planning and Urban Design Standards, American Planning Association, Contributing Author on Fiscal Impact Analysis. “Fiscal Impact Analysis: How Today’s Decisions Affect Tomorrow’s Budgets,” ICMA Press. “The Cost/Contribution of Residential Development,” Mid-Atlantic Builder. “Are Subsidies Worth It?” Economic Development News & Views. “Smart Growth and Fiscal Realities,” ICMA Getting Smart! Newsletter. “The Economics of Density,” AICP Training Series, 2005, Training CD-ROM (American Planning Association)

Past Assignments: Fiscal Impact Assessment, AICP Training Workshop, American Planning Association National Planning Conference Dealing with the Cost of Growth: From Soup to Nuts, International City/County Management Association National Conference Demand Numbers for Impact Analysis, National Impact Fee Roundtable Calculating Infrastructure Needs with Fiscal Impact Models, Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association Conference Economic Impact of Home Building, National Impact Fee Roundtable Annexation and Economic Development, American Planning Association National Conference Economics of Density, American Planning Association National Conference The Cost/Benefit of Compact Development Patterns, American Planning Association National Conference Fiscal Impact Modeling: A Tool for Local Government Decision Making, International City/County Management Association National Conference Fiscal Assessments, American Planning Association National Conference From Soup to Nuts: Paying for Growth, American Planning Association National Conference Growing Pains, International City/County Management Association National Conference Mitigating the Impacts of Development in Urban Areas, Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association Impact Fee Basics, National Impact Fee Roundtable Fiscal Impact Analysis and Impact Fees, National Impact Fee Roundtable Are Subsidies Worth It?, American Planning Association National Conference