Thought Leadership, Featured, Insights / August 12, 2026
As NBS continues celebrating its 30th anniversary, we’re reflecting on one of the most important reasons for our longevity: the relationships we’ve built along the way. For three decades, our success has been shaped by dedicated employees, valued clients, trusted partners, and the communities we serve. While technology, regulations, and…
Featured, Thought Leadership, Research Article, Insights / March 10, 2025
Community Facilities Districts (CFDs) represent a tremendous opportunity, as the so-called “Designer Tax,” for financing facilities and funding ongoing services. CFDs are known for having financed billions of dollars of California infrastructure over the past few decades, and for funding many essential public services. Cities, counties, schools, and many special…
Featured, Thought Leadership, Research Article, Insights / March 7, 2025
What’s so important about a Fiscal Impact Analysis (FIA)? New developments or annexations of land to existing municipal boundaries can provide multiple advantages to a public agency, such as: Increased revenue: New development often leads to an increase in property tax revenue, sales tax, and other fees. This additional funding…
Featured, Thought Leadership, Research Article, Insights / October 8, 2019
Local agencies in California have the ability to charge a wide range of user and regulatory fees. Common examples of these include: Cities or fire districts have fire prevention programs and charge fees for review of planning entitlement applications for conditions of approval, plan check and inspection of new residential…
SFD Formation, Case Study / April 20, 2017
Cities across California grapple with the increasing annual costs and efforts to address stormwater. As charging any type of utility fee for this effort is challenging, most cities choose to pay for this with dwindling general funds. Culver City decided to try another approach, a parcel tax. The increasing demands…
SFD Formation, Case Study, SFD Administration / April 20, 2017
The City of Oxnard has close to 100 Special Financing Districts (SFDs) across the city, serving a variety of neighborhood needs. Over time, the management of these districts have become difficult, resulting in problems for the City. The City needed a complete overhaul of its numerous landscape and other assessment…