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Haverhill hires fiscal impact consultant to analyze development costs for special permits
Summary
The Haverhill City Council and city administration engaged consultant Judy Barrett to produce project-level fiscal impact analyses — including a 10-year review of municipal finances — to inform special permit and zoning decisions; councilors asked that the analyses distinguish costs attributable to development and not be used to set impact fees.
The Haverhill City administration announced that the city has retained fiscal impact consultant Judy Barrett to provide project-level analyses intended to help the City Council evaluate the costs and revenues associated with proposed development and zoning changes.
The consultant engagement was introduced by Mayor Melinda E. Barrett and William Pillsbury, Haverhill economic development director, who said the work was requested by the council and will “populate those tools with real time data” so departments and the council can evaluate the net fiscal effect of projects. Pillsbury described the analysis as estimating community service costs (police,…
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