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~e City has over 60 sewer service subdistricts, which are used as a basis for measuring existing sewage effluent, for calculating future flows, and for allocating the oost of fu- ture sewer facilities as a basis for levying special assess- ments. ~he sewer subdistricts were manually added to the parcel file and used to allocate existing sewer flows among sewered parcels. ~he subdistrict codes were also used to estimate the future special assessments to be levied against each parcel in order to finance the construction of sewer facilities under the different land use alternatives. Watershed Districts ~he City has 104 watershed subdistricts. ~ese were added to the file to allocate the cost of future watershed improvements to parcels that would be necessary under the land use alterna- tives. Land Use Alternatives ~ _Devel0_~ment. Limitatio~ ~he planning staff from Blaine provided five proposed land use alternatives which were added to the parcel file. Using the parcel base map, the alternatives could be mapped by computer for display. A critical data ingredient to be used in the analysis of the land use alternatives was the soil map. Since the City had many areas with a high water table as well as peat and muck soils, the actual developable land area was far less than the gross areas shown on the land use alternatives. ~herefore, the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) maps for Blaine were digitized for purposes of overlaying on the parcel map. Soil types were grouped into urban develolxnent limitation ("soil suitability") classes: slight, moderate, severe, very severe and fill. ~hrough computer overlay, the ~m~ount of acre- age in each soil group was computed and placed in the parcel data file. SteD..3.. Compute Fiscal Mult~plie_r.s ~ag_d Evaluate the Curren~t Fiscal. Patterns A series of SAS programs were used to oompute current fiscal patterns within the community. Using the input of the finance director on the factors and weights that influence each City budget item, fiscal multipliers were computed. Figures 5 & 6 illustrate this. Next, the "fiscal factors" were aggregated by land use. Using the aggregated fiscal factors by land use and the fiscal multipliers, the various categories of revenues and expenditures were distributed among land use types. Taking the stm~s of all the categories of operating revenues and subtracting all the s~s of operating expenditures yielded the surplus or deficit in the operating budget contributd by each land use type. Surprisingly, the ~ommercial and industrial categories showed