The survey also will address how much time is needed for each phase of a development application, from initial design review to issuance of a final building permit.

In collecting the collecting the data, the Minneapolis-based NAIOP chapter says it hopes to help city governments and the business community to understand the impact of these costs on new business investment and economic development.

"We believe local governments will find the results useful in evaluating their relative strengths or weaknesses in the competition with other communities for jobs and new development," says Kaye Rakow, NAIOP's director of public policy.NAIOP plans to collect data from 100 cities within the 11-county metro area that have land available for development. The survey will include a number of cities in western Wisconsin and along the Interstate 94 corridor between Maple Grove and Monticello.

Its 750 members develop, own and manage a total of 125 million sf in the state, housing more than 7,000 businesses and nearly 300,000 employees.

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