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isIS <br /> c <br /> FF <br /> How to Do a COCS Study <br /> allocations , or you may be forced to use your fall - elevator . But a farmer driving to church or to shop <br /> back percentages . When you talk to the highway is a residential expense . <br /> superintendent , try to tease out quantifiable data . Finally , try to avoid bias in your allocations <br /> The number of curb miles may provide some useful and to base them on land use demand and sound <br /> information , but beware ! Simply counting the financial data . If you hope that farm , forest and <br /> number of miles and estimating how many went open lands will show a positive contribution , make <br /> through each land use sector will not give you an sure you are conservative when you allocate <br /> accurate picture of road use . Probe a little deeper , revenues to them and liberal when you allocate <br /> Rural roads are often used by commuters and their expenditures . This will help keep your study <br /> tourists , not just farmers . Farms need roads for impartial and credible . When objective data is <br /> tractors , milk trucks or hauling beans to the unavailable , use fall -back percentages . <br /> S. Calculate ratios <br /> Now you can analyze the data . Enter revenues picture of demand on services in your community . <br /> and expenditures on a spread - sheet to come up with They neither project growth nor describe all the <br /> land use totals . Furnish as much detail as you want financial implications of any land use . For <br /> to use in your analysis . Then establish a ratio that example , in AFT ' s studies , commercial and <br /> shows how much was spent on services for every industrial development were net contributors . But <br /> dollar raised in revenues , sometimes it appeared that this type of development <br /> For example , in one Massachusetts town , attracted new residents to fill newly created jobs . <br /> residential expenses were $ 4 , 025 , 367 , and revenues Some officials complained that this further strained <br /> were $ 3 , 458 , 764 . Viewed as a ratio , for every education and other public service budgets , which <br /> dollar raised , it cost $ 1 . 16 to provide residential the community . did not have sufficient resources to <br /> services . Farm and open land expenditures were provide . COCS studies do not evaluate the extent <br /> $ 61 , 021 and revenues were $ 207 , 615 so the ratio to which secondary effects occur . These should be <br /> between them was $ 1 to 29 cents . considered as part of the planning process . <br /> When you review your findings , remember they After you have completed the calculations and <br /> are a snapshot of a single year and give a focused determined the ratios , submit them as a draft to <br /> 17 <br /> � ... _ <br />