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COMH3TERIZED PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR COM~3NITIES IN ~E TWIN CITIES METROPOLI~t~N AREA ABSTRACT: A system has been developed by the Metropolitan Council for local governments to evaluate the impact of land use development alternatives. ~he system uses assessors data, a digitized parcel base map and attribute overlays, geographic base file (GBF) address matching, census data and local data on police calls, sewer flows and budgets. A series of statistical analysis system (SAS) programs are used to analyze the data to project the develot~nent and fiscal impact of the alternatives. ~he Council's Planning Assistance Department has been working with oommunities to resolve some of the disputes that have resulted from the comprehensive plan reviews, and to improve the quality of the fiscal analysis that will go into ongoing capital programming. Toward this end, the Council has developed a computerized approach to evaluating the impact of land develol~ment alternatives proposed by cormmunities. ~he review by Council of the comprehensive plan for the City of Blaine was an example of a dispute over the extension of sewer service in a suburban fringe community. ~he City of Blaine is located approximately 12 miles north of downtown Minneapolis and 15 miles northeast of downtown St. Paul. In 1982, it had approximately 32,000 residents and included about 35 square miles of land. In reviewing the City's comprehensive plan, the Council required the City to scale back its land development plans for the year 1990, until it had fully evaluated the fiscal feasibility of extending sewer service, which the City would have to finance entirely on its own. ~he finance director, along with the City's planning staff and governing body, asked the Council's Planning Assistance Department to help them undertake such a study. As the study progressed, it became a model for not only evaluating fiscal impact, but also for conducting nearly all the aspects of traditional land use planning; therefore, the approach was renamed "Develo~Inent Impact Analysis" rather than simply "Fiscal Impact Analysis." ~he. Study Objectives ~he objectives of the study were: to determine the fiscal feasibility of extending sewer to an outlying rural area of the cor~nunity using several alternative growth and financing ass~nptions; and to determine the socioeconomic impact of the land use alternatives on the community and on individual land owners. Outline_Df SteDs in the Study 1. Analyze city revenues and expenditures, and determine the