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AICP Exam 2011

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show Agriculture  
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How many Native American reservations are there in the U.S.?   show
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show Navajo, 16 million acres  
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What is the average per capita per day water usage?   show
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What are the 6 key pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act?   show
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Who wrote Man vs. Nature (1864)?   show
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show John Wesley Powell, proposal to foster settlement and conserve water in the arid west  
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show John Muir, to promote the protection and preservation of the natural environment  
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show First director of the U.S. Forest Service (1905), leader of conservation movement, advocating for both preservation and scientific management of natural resources  
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show William H. Whyte, coined the term greenway  
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Who wrote Silent Spring (1962)?   show
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When was the USGS formed, and why?   show
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What is the largest concrete structure in the US?   show
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When was the first Earth Day?   show
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show separates ownership of land from the right to develop that land  
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show Established that environmental protection regulations are a reasonable exercise of the police power of the state and do not amount to a taking of private property without just compensation; The natural state of the shore land is a public interest that sup  
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Agins v. Tiburon (1980)   show
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Babbit v. Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon (1996)   show
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Palazzolo v. State of Rhode Island   show
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show National Pollution Discharge Elimination System: Authorized by the Clean Water Act, to control water pollution by regulation point sources that discharge pollutants into U.S. water bodies; Industrial and municipal polluters must obtain a NPDES discharge p  
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show Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for light trucks and passenger cars  
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show Cradle-to-grace legislation for hazardous waste materials (EPA controled)  
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show Superfund, Gave EPA power to seek out those parties responsible for any hazardous releases and assure their cooperation in the cleanup  
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show Required coordination between states and metropolitan areas for air quality standards  
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Preservation v. conservation   show
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Number of endangered species?   show
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How has average size of single family detached homes changed over last 50 years?   show
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Aveage annual per capita consumption of gasoline in 2000?   show
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show The ability of insulation above ceilings and in walls to keep heat inside during the winter and keep heat our during the summer; The higher the R-factor, the better the insulation and the less energy required to keep building hot or cold  
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show The treated wastewater discharged by sewage treatment plants  
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show Glacial deposit of rock and soil  
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Limnology   show
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show Refers to a lake or lake-type environment, such as a wetland  
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show Highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water; for nitrates: 10ppm; for flouride, 4ppm  
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What leads to algae bloom?   show
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Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)   show
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What land use maps are included in a comprehensive plan?   show
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show 1 Acre = 43,560 SF  
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What is a Hectare?   show
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How many feet in a mile?   show
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First zoning ordinance - when/where? NYC 1916, Edward Bassett   show
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show Yellowstone, 1872  
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show Florida, 1903  
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First Historic Preservation Commission?   show
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First off-street parking regulations?   show
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show Bronx River Parkway  
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When was the first national conference on City planning?   show
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show Olmstead, Jr  
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show 1978  
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Rational Planning Model (synoptic), associated w who?   show
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show Charles Lindblom  
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show Sherry Arnstein (Ladder of Participation, 1969), Paul Davidoff (planners as advocates, not neutral technocrats)  
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City beautiful   show
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show Ebenezer Howard, 1989, Garden Cities of to-morrow  
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show LeCorbusier, 1920s  
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show Ernest Burgess, 1925  
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show Frank Lloyd Wright, 9132  
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show Homer Hoyt, 1939  
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Multiple Nuclei Theory   show
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show William Alonso, 1960  
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New Urbanism   show
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show Harvey Molotch, 1987  
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Edge City   show
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show Eminent domain, Department store, Established aesthetics and redevelopment as a valid purpose for exercising eminent domain; Public ownership of land not the sole way to promote public purpose;  
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show US Supreme Court, Takings, commission required Nollan to maintain greenway on hardware store property; Ruling in favor of Nollan, established principle of rational nexus for regulatory action  
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show Takings  
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City of Ladue v Gilleo (1994)   show
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show Growth management; Local govts can control growth on basis that adequate public services and facilities are nec. and should preced addtl subdiv dev  
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show Housing, Fair Share  
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show Environmental Justice  
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show Eminent domain  
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show Takings  
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City of Rancho Palos Verde v Abrams   show
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San Remo Hotel L.P. v City and County of San Fransisco (2005)   show
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show Clarence Perry  
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show Stein and Wright  
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Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (1926)   show
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Standard City Planning Enabling Act (1928)   show
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show Rules for Radicals, Community Organizing, “Organization of organizations”  
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show  
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show Chief of Planning in Cleveland 1969-1979 (AICP code of ethics?)  
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Citizen participation   show
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What are the 3 sections of the AICP Code of Ethics?   show
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Ethics: Aspirational principles:   show
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Ethics: Rules of conduct:   show
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show Transparency, Disclosure, Documentation  
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Ethics: Who makes the final determination in a charge of ethics misconduct?   show
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show Louis Wirth, promoted urbanism as the prevailing way of life in contemporary society, and that density has an effect on people’s behavior  
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Endangered Species Act year?   show
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Property Administration 41 Act of 1949   show
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What year was American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) established?   show
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show Gave public land to each state to be sold for the establishment of “engineering, agriculture and military science colleges (land grant colleges)  
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show U.S. Supreme Court, Acknowledges principle of regulatory taking (land use restriction constituted a taking)  
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Cumulative zoning   show
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Noncumulative zoning   show
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Exclusive zoning   show
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Delphi method   show
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Fred French Investing Co v City of NY (1976)   show
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Pierre L’Enfant   show
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Cincinnati Plan, 1925   show
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show  
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San Fransisco Zoning Ordinance, 1867   show
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show  
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show US Supreme county ruled that restricting certain nuisances land uses was a legitimate exercise of police power; Upheld ordinance in LA prohibiting operation of brickyard  
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Construction Indust. Assn. of Sonoma County v City of Petaluma   show
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Young v. American Mini Theaters (1976)   show
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Penn Central Transportation Co. v City of New Yok (1978)   show
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show US Supreme Court struck down ordinance that banned com and non-com off-site billboards yet permitted on-site signage as violation of free speech  
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First urban growth boundary?   show
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Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, 1928   show
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show Exercise of police power, which means government’s right to impose regulations to protect public health, safety and welfare  
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show Specifies exactly what uses will be allowed in each district and at what level of intensity; Does not allow for mix of uses  
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Alfred Bettman   show
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Form-based zoning   show
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show continuum of 6 zones from rural to urban  
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show focuses on the intensity of development that is acceptable and its impact on the environment; does not deal with use but with how development impacts the surrounding area  
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show Costs levied on developers as a condition for receiving permission to develop in a community (i.e. contribution of land, facilities or funding); Extractions reflect the costs that a dev is projected to impose on a community  
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show used to secure a portion of rights associated with a parcel  
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Right of way   show
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show Prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without paying just compensation to the property owner (14th Amendment deals with due process in taking)  
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show A claim is ready for judicial review only after a property owner has sought all possible relief through, for example, variance or condemnation procedures  
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Variance is permissible when   show
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show US Supreme Court upheld validity of zoning as a legitimate exercise of policy power, and emphasized the need to separate land uses, in order to protect public health, safety and welfare; established zoning as a legitimate exercise of police power by local  
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show Preexisting feedlot became a nuisance for a newer residential area; state court of appeals ruled that feedlot should move to accommodate addtl urban dev; dev’rs required to pay expenses and damages  
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show US Supreme Court ruled that LA violated free speech by banning noncommercial signage on public property  
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show Agriculture  
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How many Native American reservations are there in the U.S.?   show
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What is the largest single Native American reservation?   show
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show 50 gallons (but could be calculated as 120 - 180 gallons/person/day, depending on how is calculated and if lawns are being watered)  
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show Nitrogen oxide, Carbon monoxide, Lead, Sulfur dioxide, ozone, and particulates  
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Who wrote Man vs. Nature (1864)?   show
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show John Wesley Powell, proposal to foster settlement and conserve water in the arid west  
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Who founded the Sierra Club (1892)?   show
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show First director of the U.S. Forest Service (1905), leader of conservation movement, advocating for both preservation and scientific management of natural resources  
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Who wrote The Last Landscape (1959)?   show
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show Rachel Carson, about the harmful effects of pesticides on animal, plant and human life  
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show 1897, to survey and classify all public domain lands  
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show Grand Coulee Dam, on the Columbia River in central Washington State, buildt for irrigation, electric power generation, and flood control  
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show April 22, 1970  
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show separates ownership of land from the right to develop that land  
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show Established that environmental protection regulations are a reasonable exercise of the police power of the state and do not amount to a taking of private property without just compensation; The natural state of the shore land is a public interest that sup  
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Agins v. Tiburon (1980)   show
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show U.S. Supreme Court decided that the government can restrict land development to protect endangered species and their habitats, and it does not constitute a taking; Harm includes significant habitat modification or degradation that kills or injures wildlif  
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Palazzolo v. State of Rhode Island   show
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What is NPDES (1972)?   show
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show Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for light trucks and passenger cars  
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976)   show
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Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA 1980)   show
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Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA, 1991)   show
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show Preservation of wilderness (Muir), vs. Conservation (wise use of natural resources, Pinchot)  
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Number of endangered species?   show
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show ~1,100SF → 2,340 SF  
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show 430 gallons  
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What is R-factor?   show
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show The treated wastewater discharged by sewage treatment plants  
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Moraine   show
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show The study of the chemical, hydrological and biological aspects of lakes and ponds  
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Lacustrine   show
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Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)   show
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show Phosphorous  
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show Highly mobile organic compound such as petroleum, hydrocarbons, and solvents that readily evaporate  
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show Current land use map an future land use map (basis for zoning map)  
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How many sf in 1 acre?   show
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show 1 hectare = 10,000 square meters  
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How many feet in a mile?   show
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First zoning ordinance - when/where? NYC 1916, Edward Bassett   show
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show Yellowstone, 1872  
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show Florida, 1903  
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First Historic Preservation Commission?   show
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First off-street parking regulations?   show
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First limited access highway?   show
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When was the first national conference on City planning?   show
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Who founded the American City Planning Institute, and when?   show
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When was APA/AICP founded (merging of AIP and ASPO)?   show
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show Myerson and Banfield  
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show Charles Lindblom  
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show Sherry Arnstein (Ladder of Participation, 1969), Paul Davidoff (planners as advocates, not neutral technocrats)  
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show Daniel Burnham, 1893  
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Garden Cities   show
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show LeCorbusier, 1920s  
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Concentric Ring Theory   show
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show Frank Lloyd Wright, 9132  
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Sector Theory   show
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Multiple Nuclei Theory   show
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show William Alonso, 1960, Proposed that the cost of land, the intensity of development of land, the concentration of the population, and the number of places of employment each decline as distance from the CBD increases  
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New Urbanism   show
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show John Logan and Harvey Molotch, 1987, Proposed that urban development is actually directed by those elite members of the community who control the resources and have business and political interests that benefit from development  
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show Joel Garreau, 1991, Suburban cities gaining on older core cities  
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show Eminent domain, Department store, Established aesthetics and redevelopment as a valid purpose for exercising eminent domain; Public ownership of land not the sole way to promote public purpose;  
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show Takings clause was violated when public agency would grant the Nollans a permit to build a house only if they provided a public easement on their beachfront property; Land-use regulation amounted to a taking  
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Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)   show
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show Freedom of speech  
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show Growth management; Local govts can control growth on basis that adequate public services and facilities are nec. and should preced addtl subdiv dev  
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show Housing, Fair Share  
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Executive Order 12898 (1994)   show
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show Eminent domain  
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Lingle v Chevron (2005)   show
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show Telecommunications Act  
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show State courts can adjudicate challenges to land use decisions  
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Traditional Neighborhood Unit   show
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Radburn, NJ   show
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show Hoover, Dept of Commerce  
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show Hoover, Dept of Commerce  
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Saul Alinsky   show
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Economic Opportunity Act (1964)   show
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Norman Krumholtz   show
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Citizen participation   show
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show 1) Aspirational principles (cannot be enforced), 2) Rules of conduct (must be followed), 3) Procedures (for handling charges of misconduct)  
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show 1) Serve public interest, 2) Seek social justice, work to expand choice and opportunity, 3) responsibility to clients and employers, 4) responsibility to the profession  
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Ethics: Rules of conduct:   show
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Ethics: Procedure:   show
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show The AICP Ethics Committee  
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show Louis Wirth, promoted urbanism as the prevailing way of life in contemporary society, and that density has an effect on people’s behavior  
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show 1973  
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Property Administration 41 Act of 1949   show
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show 1934  
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Morrill Act (1862)   show
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Pennsylvania Coal v Mahon (1922)   show
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Cumulative zoning   show
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Noncumulative zoning   show
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show  
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show Public participation (RAND), 1) Identify needs/goals/objectives or alternatives; 2) establish priorities, group preferences, differences among diverse reference groups; 3) educating and identifying areas of consensus and disagreement by sharing informatio  
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show Transfer of Development Rights  
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Pierre L’Enfant   show
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show  
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show  
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San Fransisco Zoning Ordinance, 1867   show
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show US Supreme Court, Takings, commission required Dolan to maintain greenway on hardware store property; Ruling in favor of Dolan, established principle of rational nexus for regulatory action  
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show US Supreme county ruled that restricting certain nuisances land uses was a legitimate exercise of police power; Upheld ordinance in LA prohibiting operation of brickyard  
🗑
Construction Indust. Assn. of Sonoma County v City of Petaluma (1971)   show
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Young v. American Mini Theaters (1976)   show
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Penn Central Transportation Co. v City of New Yok (1978)   show
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Metromedia Inc v City of San Diego (1981)   show
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show Lexington and FAyette County, KY (1958)  
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Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs, 1928   show
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show Exercise of police power, which means government’s right to impose regulations to protect public health, safety and welfare  
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Euclidean zoning   show
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Alfred Bettman   show
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Form-based zoning   show
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Transect zoning   show
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show focuses on the intensity of development that is acceptable and its impact on the environment; does not deal with use but with how development impacts the surrounding area  
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Exactions   show
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show used to secure a portion of rights associated with a parcel  
🗑
Right of way   show
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show Prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without paying just compensation to the property owner (14th Amendment deals with due process in taking)  
🗑
show A claim is ready for judicial review only after a property owner has sought all possible relief through, for example, variance or condemnation procedures  
🗑
show  
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show US Supreme Court upheld validity of zoning as a legitimate exercise of policy power, and emphasized the need to separate land uses, in order to protect public health, safety and welfare; established zoning as a legitimate exercise of police power by local  
🗑
show Preexisting feedlot became a nuisance for a newer residential area; state court of appeals ruled that feedlot should move to accommodate addtl urban dev; dev’rs required to pay expenses and damages  
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show US Supreme Court ruled that LA violated free speech by banning noncommercial signage on public property  
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City of Renton v Playtime Theaters (1986)   show
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show Flood damaged campgrounds, and LA prohibited construction in flood area; U.S. Supreme Court found that just compensation required for “temporary damages” for time btwn law adoption and determination of unconstitutional taking  
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Tahoe Sierra Preservation Council v Tahoe Regional Planning Association (2002)   show
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Land Ordinance of 1785   show
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show Confirmed the states’ authority to delegate police power to municipalities to enact local zoning ordinances; Drafted under Secretary of Commerce Hoover  
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Standard City Planning Enabling Act (1928)   show
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Housing Act of 1949   show
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Housing Act of 1954   show
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show Created Model Cities, focusing on community participation; emphasized social and economic rebuilding of communities rather than physical development  
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show 1) Mitigation planning, to minimize damage; 2) Preparation planning; 3) Response planning; 4) Recovery planning  
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show The tolerable soil loss that, if exceeded, would adversely affect the productivity of the soil  
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Subsidence   show
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