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ULCT research agenda: staff-hour costs, approval timing and other municipal data needs
Summary
ULCT outlined research priorities and requested volunteers from member cities to help collect data on implementation costs for new legislation, administrative land use approval timing and other municipal metrics.
ULCT staff presented a research agenda on May 21 and requested municipal volunteers to help collect specific data sets, including staff hours required to implement new state laws and the length of time for administrative land-use approvals.
Carson (ULCT policy director) summarized research topics that will guide the league's analytical work this year: aggregated infrastructure and service costs for cities, housing approval timing, a state-by-state review of state land-use preemption outcomes, updates to the league's cluster analysis, and the cost of implementing new legislation including staff hours and administrative changes.
ULCT asked for immediate volunteers on two projects: (1) tracking approximate staff hours for updating city code to comply with new state laws and (2) collecting data from 5 to 10 cities on the duration of administrative land-use approval steps. The league said these data would improve fiscal impact statements and help ULCT push back on legislation by providing better implementation-cost evidence.
"We're tracking the approximate staff hours for updating code to comply with new state laws," Carson said, asking cities to contact him if they can supply data. The league said it would send follow-up emails and materials describing the data requests and methodology.
ULCT indicated it will be judicious in requests for data to reduce municipal burden and emphasized the legislative usefulness of accurate implementation-cost information.
