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2.2 PHYSICAL PRESENCE, FISCAL IMPACT & REVENUE PRODUCTIVITY <br />The typical business community expects the city in which it is located to <br />provide public safety, infrastructure and other vital services to support and <br />protect their business operations, customers, suppliers and employees. In <br />return, the city can expect its business community to fund the services <br />provided. <br />When a business* located in a self-reliant city generates insufficient revenue to fund <br />its relative share of these services - due to non-compliance, an inequitable ordinance, <br />State preemption, or some other reason - either the city's residents or other <br />businesses must fund the difference. <br />Inequitable and unfair sharing of the local tax burden becomes less <br />tolerable and more apparent as each city becomes increasingly dependent <br />on its own economic base to meet its service funding needs. <br />In pursuing fiscal self-reliance strategies that provide for fairness and <br />equity, it is important to ascertain "Who benefits from the City's services?", <br />"Who generates revenue to the City?" and "How much?" <br />To determine for each business in a city whether the revenue it generates is <br />sufficient to cover its proportionate share of municipal services, an ideal <br />fiscal impact analysis would: <br />■ Include all factors that have significant cost or revenue consequences <br />for the city <br />IN Be more comprehensive than the projected infrastructure or capital <br />improvement costs precipitated by a development to finance or <br />recover those costs by charging development impact fees <br />■ Be more comprehensive than a user service analysis that seeks to <br />recover the allocated costs for city services from the actual users of <br />those services <br />■ Encompass social, legal, environmental, ecological, opportunity, and <br />other costs as well as the above -mentioned capital improvement and <br />service costs <br />■ Be comparable for different types and sizes of land uses, <br />developments and defined geographic areas <br />■ Be reliably measurable <br />* Commercial, industrial, residential, institutional, governmental <br />3 <br />