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Slide by Greg Kacvinsky, OHM, at MAP 2016

Lafayette, LA

Calibration

■ Sticky issues:– Parking lots– Common areas– Developments

with multiple parcels

■ Depiction

■ “Splitting” the data

■ Other revenues and costs

What we learnedabout our City

■ Floor area ratio drivestax value per acre■ Parking lots decrease tax value per acre■ Beautiful and new ≠ More tax revenue■ Tax value only one consideration■ Policy levers exist to boost revenue generation

– Many implemented through our new zoning ordinance

What we learnedabout the process

■ Better for generalized findings than doing parcel level comparisons

■ Maps understood best by visual learners

■ Timing

■ Sticky issues

■ Easier than expected

Ypsilanti Township Revenue Power per Acre

Neighborhood Revenue Power Comparison

Neighborhood 1 –Sherman Oaks

• Zoned R-1• SEV $5,844,600.00• Acreage 54.32 acres• 3 People / Acre • Revenue Power =

$6,968.53 per acre

Neighborhood 2 –Pineview

• Zoned R-2• SEV $13,462,000.00• Acreage 64.19 acres• 5 People / Acre• Revenue Power =

$13,579.39 per acre

Neighborhood 6 –Parkside Preserve

• Zoned PD• SEV $24,649,600.00• Acreage 50.22 acres• 17 People / Acre• Revenue Power =

$31,794.19 per acre

Neighborhood 3 –River Grove Village

• Zoned RM-2• SEV $6,546,200.00• Acreage 20.7 acres• 13 People / Acre• Revenue Power =

$20,522.53 per acre

Population Density and Revenue PowerLow

High

Neighborhood 4 –Hewitt

• Zoned R-5• SEV $57,301,100.00• Acreage 171.71 acres• 13 People / Acre• Revenue Power =

$21,602.81 per acre

Neighborhood 5 –Gault Village

• Zoned R-5• SEV $57,365,290.00• Acreage 160.97 acres• 18 People / Acre• Revenue Power =

$23,073.10 per acre

*SEV and Acreage represent the total SEV and total acreage for the entire neighborhood