The Municipal Infrastructure Planning and Cost Model, or MIPCOM, is an easy-to-use computer spreadsheet that estimates a community's costs for providing basic infrastructure to new development. You enter data about your community and a proposed new development project, and MIPCOM crunches the numbers for you. MIPCOM estimates the amount of materials (streets and pipes) and labor needed to provide basic services to the new development and can show how, over time, different development styles can influence infrastructure costs.

MIPCOM was designed to be used by local government staff and is not a GIS-based model. For over four years, the state's Quality Growth Efficiency Tools (QGET) and PSOMAS Engineering have collaborated to make MIPCOM as accurate and as user-friendly as possible. And best of all, MIPCOM is free to local governments.
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