Parcenomics is a purely analytical tool: it draws on the public record, documents every figure to its source, and leaves the decisions to the people who have to make them. These are completed, published analyses — municipal fiscal profiles and independent policy work — each free to read in full and to download.
Municipal fiscal profiles of specific communities, alongside broader policy analyses. None of them was commissioned. Same method throughout: aggregate the public data, assimilate it across silos, evaluate what it shows.
The inaugural Parcenomics profile identifies $1.41 million a year in available revenue for one Berkshire town — parcel-level outreach lists across four compliance streams, the §5C residential exemption, and unused Proposition 2½ capacity.
Great Barrington holds about half its regional school district’s property wealth but pays nearly three-quarters of the school bill — cost split by headcount, not means. A menu of statutory levers worth roughly $3,000–$4,000 a year to the median home.
How Massachusetts assessment works, what EQV vs. CAMA reveals about three towns, and why headcount apportionment shifts school cost away from capacity in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District. Nine parts plus a full data appendix.
Seven high-value counties hold 17.8% of the state’s eligible acres and receive 54.5% of the PILOT dollars. Prepared for the record of the Governor’s PILOT Commission — with a first-in-nation proposal in which conservation edge release funds core consolidation.