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IMFG Paper | 2024
Flooding: Toward a Municipal Contribution to Economic Risk Sharing
Bernard Deschamps, Philippe Gachon, Michel Leclerc, Mathieu Boudreault
Report proposes an economic contribution mechanism for municipalities facing floods to reduce inequity and encourage mitigation and risk reduction.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Levelling Up Innovation in Local Government: An Evaluation of International Smart City Competitions
Austin Zwick, Zachary Spicer, Aaron Eben
Report evaluates whether the nationally-led smart city competition model advances technological adoption in participating cities.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Land Use Planning to Mitigate Climate Change in the Greater Golden Horseshoe
Clara Turner, Jeff Allen, Karen Chapple, Sarah A. Smith
Report evaluates the extent to which different forms of new housing production will achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets and suggests best practices and policy approaches for housing and land use.
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IMFG Paper | 2024
Reforming Statutory Public Hearings for Planning
Aaron Moore, Alexandra Caporale
IMFG paper examines mandatory public hearings in municipal planning processes and makes four recommendations to improve public participation.
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IMFG Paper | 2023
Decarbonization of Buildings in Canadian Cities
Robert Stewart
New IMFG paper on reducing emissions from buildings through property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing examines how municipalities can attract private capital to PACE programs.
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IMFG Paper | 2023
How Can Municipalities in British Columbia and Quebec Contribute to Flood Risk Reduction?
Bernard Deschamps, Michael Bourdeau-Brien, and Mathieu Boudreault
IMFG paper on flood risk in British Columbia and Quebec argues that restructuring disaster financial assistance could incentivize municipalities to improve flood protection and suggests tools they can employ to achieve lower risk.
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IMFG Paper | 2023
Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities
Howard Chernick, Andrew Reschovsky
New IMFG report analyzes the fiscal health of U.S. cities and finds that, between 2000 and 2014, many cities were in poor health and disparities among cities increased.
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IMFG Paper | 2022
The Old and the New: A Tale of Two Local Property Taxes in Ireland
Gerard Turley
New IMFG paper on property taxes in Ireland draws potential lessons from the Irish experience for other countries and identifies future opportunities.
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