Meet The Impact Associates

Impact fee leadership you can trust

About Us

Who else knows the secrets of successful impact fee appeal strategies better than professionals formerly responsible for collecting them?

The Impact Associates partners have over 50 years of combined experience in municipal government leadership, providing us an unmatched knowledge of how to legally establish, collect and then appropriately spend impact fees. That vast knowledge and experience will now be put to work for you.

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Impact Associates guided us through a successful appeal of $937,045 in incorrectly assessed impact fees. Their insights into the intricacies of impact fees proved to be invaluable throughout our entire appeal process.

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We had no idea we could appeal our impact fees. Impact Associates successfully guided us through the process of eliminating over $800,000 in fees for our project, all while still maintaining the goodwill we needed to preserve with the city to ensure our project remained on track. We are sincerely grateful for their help and now bring them in to review all of our new projects.

David Baird

David Baird founded the Impact Associates after having successfully negotiated the impact fee process from both sides of the development table. He has successfully led impact fee appeals for major clients across the country, including businesses developing many of Utah’s high-profile projects.

Additionally, David has served in multiple city administrations throughout the Intermountain West, led clients in complicated site selection, tax increment financing procurement, and zoning ordinance modifications. David holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Utah.

SUCCESSFUL RESULTS

$225,000 impact fee reduction (Major Technology Firm Campus)
$1,750,000+ impact fee reduction (Confidential Master-Planned Residential Community)
$937,045 impact fee reduction (Confidential Commercial Retail Development)
$800,000+ impact fee reduction (Confidential Residential Master-Planned Community)
$600,000+ impact fee reduction (Confidential Residential Master-Planned Community)
$466,000+ impact fee reduction (Confidential Residential Master-Planned Community)
$84,000+ impact fee refund (Confidential Multi-family Community)
$37,000+ impact fee refund (Confidential Multi-family Community)
$22,000+ impact fee refund (Confidential Residential Community)
$20,000+ impact fee refund (Confidential Residential Community)