Bio: ROBERT W. BURCHELL is chair of the Program of Planning and Policy Development in the Edward J. Bloustein School at Rutgers University. He is also a distinguished professor and co-director of the Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University.
Education: Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1971 MCRP Rutgers University, 1969 BSME U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1963
Key Publications: Dr. Burchell is the author of 30 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. Professor Burchell is an expert on fiscal impact analysis, land-use development and regulation, and housing policy. Dr. Burchell co-authored the Development Impact Assessment Handbook for ULI-The Urban Land Institute. His major publications include The Fiscal Impact Handbook, The New Practitioner's Guide to Fiscal Impact Analysis, The Adaptive Reuse Handbook, and the Environmental Impact Handbook. Dr. Burchell's seminal work in the area of development patterns and infrastructure costs is a nationally recognized research project for the National Academy of Sciences and the Transportation Cooperative Research Program resulting in The Costs of Sprawl Revisited and The Costs of Sprawl-2000. He has just completed a work on the Transportation Costs of New Development for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
Other Publications: Robert W. Burchell, Ph.D. has served as principal investigator on more than $10 million in research spanning a forty-year career at Rutgers. One of these efforts involved calculating affordable housing need for all of the communities in New Jersey under the Mount Laurel mandate. This effort produced studies in 1987, 1993, 1999, and 2009. Another of these efforts concerned the Impact Assessment of the New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan, an encompassing study of the growth management program adopted by the New Jersey State Planning Commission in June 1992. This impact assessment was done in 1992 and repeated in 2001 and 2010; in all three cases the assessment was a requirement for passage of the New Jersey State Plan. Similar "costs of sprawl" studies have been done for the state of Maryland, the Lexington (KY) Metropolitan Area, the Delaware Estuary, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, the South Carolina Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and the two Regional Planning Commissions of South Florida.
Past Assignments: Robert W. Burchell has been an invited speaker at the annual conferences of APA, RMLUI, G&IC, and Center for American and International Law for the last several years and, in some cases, for more than a decade.
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