By Pat Curry. Impact fees are a fact of life for most U.S. builders. The current environment of expansive fees and the use of fees as a tool to control growth, notes the report, "Building for Tomorrow: Innovative Infrastructure Solutions," are the result of three converging factors: More
CEO Brownell pegs his future on conservation design techniques. "It's the future ... the way we'll all need to do development," he says. Bielinski Homes scored big with its 39-acre Prairie Glen community, in Germantown, Wis., on agricultural lands that included "partially degraded wetlands." Wetland restoration planning at Prairie Glen yielded attractive riparian open space, and buyers responded favorably, perceiving the space as an attractive natural amenity and "free" landscaping. Ecological restoration also propelled the firm's 85.5-acre Auburn Hills community in Caledonia, Wis. More
The NAHB Research Center recently challenged the conventional pave-and-drain... More
Until recently, federal storm water regulations focused on big projects and big metropolitan areas; starting in March, the regulations will apply to parcels as small as one acre and to any municipality in an urban area that has a separate storm sewer system. More
Services listed are a range assessed by governmental agencies throughout the state. Dollar amounts of fees are limited to those charged to residential builders. Comments in quotations are from staff members of state and local HBA offices. More
