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What is the dominant land use in the U.S.?   show
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show 275  
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show Navajo, 16 million acres  
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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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show George Perkins Marsh, inspired the conservationist movement  
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Who wrote Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the U.S.? (1878)   show
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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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Who wrote The Last Landscape (1959)?   show
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Who wrote Silent Spring (1962)?   show
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show 1897, to survey and classify all public domain lands  
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What is the largest concrete structure in the US?   show
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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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show U.S. Supreme Court ruled that open space requirements established by the City of Tiburon did not result in a taking of property; Established the principle that a governmental action was not a regulatory taking if it substantially advanced a legitimate gov  
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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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show U.S. Supreme Court decided that environmental protection laws prohibiting filling undeveloped salt marsh (wetlands) did not remove all economically viable use of the land and therefore this regulation was not a taking  
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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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What is CAFE (1975)?   show
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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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show Required coordination between states and metropolitan areas for air quality standards; created program to earmark funds for scenic byways and historic preservation to address community-wide impacts of transportation  
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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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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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show The study of the chemical, hydrological and biological aspects of lakes and ponds  
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show Refers to a lake or lake-type environment, such as a wetland  
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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 and future land use map (basis for zoning map); Future trends forecast to i.e. 20 years out  
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show 1 Acre = 43,560 SF  
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show 1 hectare = 10,000 square meters  
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show 5,280 feet = 1 mile  
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show NYC 1916, Edward Bassett; cumulative approach to zoning  
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show Yellowstone, 1872  
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First National wildlife refuge?   show
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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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Who founded the American City Planning Institute, and when?   show
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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; Ther Science of Muddling Through; response to rational planning model; acknowleges that changes are made in increments  
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Advocacy planning (radical), associated w who?   show
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Daniel Burnham   show
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show Ebenezer Howard, 1989, Garden Cities of to-morrow  
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show LeCorbusier, 1920s, Large scale grid of arterial streets, superblocks composed of high-rise towers and individual zones for each use type  
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show Ernest Burgess, 1925; Urban areas grow outward as a series of concentric rings  
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show Wrote “Disappearing City” (1932) with utopian vision of Broadacre City (sprawling, decongested type of auto-oriented development; each house on one acre and with a car)  
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show Homer Hoyt, 1939, Proposed that urban areas develop by sectors, formed along communication and transportation routes  
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Multiple Nuclei Theory   show
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Bid Rent Theory   show
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show Andres Duany, 1982 (also known as neotraditional design)  
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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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Edge City   show
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Berman v Parker (1954)   show
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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; City could not ban posting a non-commercial window sign in own residence (anti-gulf war sign)  
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Golden v Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo (1972)   show
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Southern Burlington NAACP v Township of Mount Laurel (1975, 1983)   show
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show Eminent domain; Economic development is a public use for which the power of eminent domain may be exercised when part of an integrated development plan  
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show Takings; Removed the “substantially advances” test (basis of Agins v Tiburon) to identify regulatory taking; Relevant test if whether due process clause has been violated; Affirms that regulatory taking occurs when regs destroy all economic value  
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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; Traditionally contais 6,000 people  
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show Stein and Wright, 1928; inspired by Howard’s Garden City concept; Forerunner of New Deal’s Greenbelt towns  
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show Hoover, Dept of Commerce  
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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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Norman Krumholtz   show
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Crime Prevention thorough Environmental Design (CPTED)   show
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show >10%  
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show “the process through which citizens who live and/or work in an area are actively involved in the dev of plans and recommendations”  
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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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Ethics: Aspirational principles:   show
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show 1) Provide adequate, timely, clear and accurate info, 2) must not advocate opposing positions, 3) must not take unfair advantage of a sitaution, 4) Avoid conflict of interest of appearance thereof  
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Ethics: Procedure:   show
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Ethics: Who makes the final determination in a charge of ethics misconduct?   show
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How should communications regarding specific ethics situation be handled?   show
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show June 2005  
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show To service the public interest  
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show Consider: how public interest is defined through continuous and open debate (opps for participation); Rights of others, long-range consequences, interrelatedness of decisions, preservation of natural/built environment; Accurate info; Expand choice and be  
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show Use professional judgment; Accept decision of client/employer (unless illegal or contrary to public interest); Avoid actual or perceived conflicts of interest  
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show Education others about the profession; Show respect for colleagues; Contribute to the development of the profession  
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Urbanism as a Way of Life (1938)   show
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show 1973  
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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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Pennsylvania Coal v Mahon (1922)   show
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Cumulative zoning   show
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show Allows only stated use and not less intensive uses  
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Exclusive zoning   show
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show Public participation (RAND), Uses successive rounds of questions to work towards greater clarification 1) Identify needs/goals/jectives or alternatives; 2) establish priorities, group preferences, differences among diverse reference groups; 3) educating a  
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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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First comprehensive city plan officially adopted by major US city?   show
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show Los Angeles, 1922  
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San Fransisco Zoning Ordinance, 1867   show
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First regional planning agency?   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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Hadacheck v Sebastian (1915)   show
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show Limit on the number of building permits for single-fam homes issued each year; upheld by court of appeals on ground that it sought to preserve small town character and open space and promote growth at an “orderly” rate”  
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show US Supreme Court upheld Detroit “adult zoning” ordinance that prohibited location of adult movie theaters in proximity to each other and residential area; Court argued that it did not restrain speech but only maintain neighborhood character  
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show US Supreme Court found historic preservation to be a valid public purpose; Upheld LPC’s denial of request to develop over Grand Central (a designated historic landmark); Penn Central could have TDR’d  
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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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show Lexington and Fayette County, KY (1958)  
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show Viewed land use as a function of accessibility  
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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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show 1925, developed comprehensive plan for Cincinnati, the first American city to adopt a comprehensive plan; Defending zoning in Amber v Eucid  
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show Regulates size, form, appearance and placement of buildings ad parking rather than the use of the land and the density of development  
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Transect zoning   show
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Performance zoning   show
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Exactions   show
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show used to secure a portion of rights associated with a parcel  
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show Right granted by owner to other to building, maintain and use a road, pathway or utility line across the owner’s property  
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5th Amendment   show
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Ripeness doctrine   show
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show Hardship inherent in the physical characteristics of the land (although often misconstrued as alleviation of financial hardship)  
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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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Spur Industries v Del E Webb Dev Co (1972)   show
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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 US Supreme Court upheld zoning ordinance that prohibited adult theaters with 1K ft of residence etc bc it did not violate free speech bc it didn’t altogether prohibit use in city  
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First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale v County of Los Angeles (1987)   show
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show US Supreme Court upheld the use of development moratoria and said that a moratorium is not necessarily a taking of property requiring compensation  
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show Provided for the rectangular land survey of the NW Territory  
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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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Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act (1966)   show
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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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show Gradual sinking of land, sometimes due to excessive groundwater pumping in surface drainage patters due to urbanization  
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Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)   show
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What is per capita daily water demand?   show
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A gravity feed water supply system must have storage tanks how far above the distribution area?   show
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show 150 gallons  
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show Use to determine if soil at a site has adequate absorptive capacity for a septic system to function properly  
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What is per capita saily solid waste production?   show
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show Detention systems Temporarily hold the water for gradual release to a stream or storm sewer; Retention maintains a permanent pool of water  
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show Superfund  
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What % of trips in US are done by bicycle or foot?   show
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show Multimodal listing of highway, public transit, bicycle and pedestrian improvements and transportation emission reduction measures for which fed funds have been earmarked in particular region (in effict 3-5yrs)  
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show Typically the size of a census tract  
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What are 4 steps of a travel demand model?   show
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Hierarchy of roads   show
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Cartway   show
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show To reduce congestion by making the most efficient use of a multimodal network  
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Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)   show
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show Most--single fam home; Least--retirement homes  
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show 1.0 - 5.0 spaces per 1,000 SF of GLA  
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show 0.5 - 3.0 spaces per 1,000 SF of GLA, or 0.1 - 0.75 spaces per employee  
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What is peak parking space factor for a hotel?   show
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What is peak parking space factor for a restaurant?   show
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show 0.2 - 2.0 spaces per unit  
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What is the scale for transportation Level of Service (LOS)?   show
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show Boston, 1897  
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Where/when was first limited access highway?   show
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National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)   show
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA 1990)   show
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show Successor to ISTEA; added new initiatives for improving safety, protecting natural environment, advancing economic growth and competitiveness; emphasized transit as alt to highway expansion  
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show Some states (i.e. FL) require that planning and commitments for transportation and infrastructure be linked with planning and commitments for other functions such as growth, water supply, or education  
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show Regional park - at least 250 acres (or 5 acres for every 1,000 people); Community park - at least 20 acres (or 3 acres for every 1,000 people); Neighborhood park - at least 5 acres (or ? acres per 1,000 people)  
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Cluster development/cluster zoning   show
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Location quotient   show
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Shift-share analysis   show
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Sizes of different types of shopping centers   show
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show Special-purpose governments that generally serve a single purpose and are geographically defined; May levy taxes and issue debt and employ user charges as financial mechanism  
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show Use for site acquisition and clearance to facilitate economic development; Competitive funds (vs entitlement CDBG funds)  
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Community Reinvestment Act (1977)   show
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Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Zones (1994)   show
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show Charleston, SC (1931)  
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US v Gettysburg Electric Railway (1896)   show
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Antiquities Act (1906)   show
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National Trust for Historic Preservation (1949)   show
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National Historic Preservation Act (1966)   show
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James Rouse   show
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Kevin Lynch   show
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William H. Whyte   show
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Allan Jacobs   show
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show Joel Garreau, defined as a distinct place that was not anything like a city 30 years ago, that has at least 5M SF of leasable office space, 600K SF of retail, and more jobs than bedrooms  
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show Dominant urban form with large, isolated, suburban office complexes that are not accessible by pedestrians or transit  
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show William Penn, late 1600s, as rectangular grid with 4 public squares (now parks) and a town square  
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When/how/who Washington DC planned?   show
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When/how/who Savannah, George planned?   show
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Riverside, IL   show
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First skyscraper   show
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First safety elevator   show
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show 1903, First English Garden City and a stimulus to the New Town movement in the US Greenbelt towns  
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Forest Hills Gardens   show
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Mariemont, OH   show
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Sunnyside Gardens   show
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show Gov’t sponsored towns based on Garden Cities in 1930s; Greenhills, OH; Greendale, WI; Greenbelt, MD  
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Park Forest, IL   show
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New Towns   show
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Seaside, FL   show
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Regional Plan for New York City and Its Environs (1929)   show
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show 31% Urban / 31% Suburban / 38% Rural  
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show 66%  
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show New homes are 50% larger, HH size has shrunk by 1 person  
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Daily homeless population in the US?   show
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show 51% single men; 17% are single women; 39% are families with children; 13-25% are employed  
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show Required buildings to provide only narrow airshaft btwn adjacent structures and only two toilets on each floor (called dumbbell tenements bc of their shape)  
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show Outlawed the dumbbell design and allowd for only 70% lot coverage; Required toilets and running water in each unit, and improved lighting and ventilation  
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show 80-90%  
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show 1976 housing voucher program for public housing residents to move to suburbs for better economic and educational opportunities  
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National Housing Act (1934)   show
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Wagner-Steagall Housing Act (1937)   show
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show Focus on slum clearance, urban renewal and new housing construction (initialed Urban Renewal)  
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Housing Act of 1954   show
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show Created HUD; Robert Weaver first HUD secretary  
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show Instituted CDBG program  
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show First major legislative response to homelessness; Emphasis on elderly, disabled and families with children  
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Impact fee / linkage fee   show
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show Salt Lake Cit, 1868; founded by Brigham Young as way to decrease dependence on outside goods  
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show Often prepared in response to a specific problem, in communities where neighborhoods are well defined  
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Private Sewage Treatment Facilities (PSTFs)   show
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Characteristics of a traditional village   show
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Town planing considerations   show
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show Permitted settlers to claim 160-acre parcel of public land in the west on condition they reside on land for 5 consecutive years; Cause gov’t to take a major role in water development in the West  
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What % of rural Americans live on farms?   show
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show ⅓ of all farms in US are in metropolitan areas; They produce over 2/3s of country’s produce and about 40% of all dairy products  
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What % of rural employment is in manufacturing?   show
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Dillion’s Rule vs. Home Rule   show
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show Patrick Gedes, considered by some as the father of regional planning  
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First full-time planner employed by an American city?   show
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Ian McHarg   show
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Steps of a plan-making process?   show
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show Usually for an entire municipality or county; Addresses short-term and long-term planning concerns, current and future trends; Documents what ideas the community is seeking through a series of goals and implementation strategies  
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show Plan for infrastructure; Estimates future needs and sources of funding; Usually includes detailed 5-6 year schedule  
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Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)   show
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show Goal is value-based statement about a desired future state of affairs. Objective offers more specific, measurable statements of how to achieve the desired ends. A Policy is a general rule that outlines how the goals and objectives of a plan should be real  
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show Dept within executive branch; Planning director reports to municipality’s chief executive; Staff supports governing body, planning commission and zoning board in their zoning functions  
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show Appointed by governing body or chief elected official. Does short- and long-term planning, plan review, budgeting. Makes recommendations to city governing body; however, often has direct or final authority in the adoption of master plans and review of sub  
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Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)   show
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Confidence Interval   show
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show Median is better measure of central tendency because it is less influence by outliers than the mean  
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show A measure of how spread out a distribution is  
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show The square root of the variance; Use to describe the degree to which a distribution is spread out (how far from the mean data points tend to be); About 68 percent of measurements in a normal distribution are within 1 std deviation of the mean; about 95% a  
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Chi-squared test   show
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show Starts with an estimate for a larger area, such as the city, and uses that growth rate to estimate population in a neighborhood  
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Symptomatic method (statistics Q)   show
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show Designed to be a relatively homogeneous unit with respect to population characteristics, economic status and living conditions; Averages ~4,000 people  
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Census Block   show
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Census Block Group   show
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show A densely settled concentration of population that is not within an incorporated place, but is locally identified by a name; No size limits (since 2000)  
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show A concentration of population either legally bounded as an incorporated place, or identified as a Census Designated Place  
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show Incorporated under state law as, i.e., a city, town, borough or village, and having legally prescribed geographic limits  
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Urban Area   show
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Urban Clusters   show
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Urbanized Areas   show
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)   show
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show 35.3 years  
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Average household size according to 2000 Census?   show
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show Biggest: California; Smallest: Wyoming  
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show Shows how different tasks are related, depicts tasks and duration of tasks using forked lines; Use to reallocate available resources among tasks i order to keep the project on time and within budget (similar to critical path method)  
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show Analyzes current econ and demo trends and conditions to estimate future budgetary need; Forecasts needs for next 4 - 6 years; Traditionally uses Line Item Budget  
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Line item budgets   show
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show Organizes expenditures by the services they fund and a set of evaluation standards for each services; Readily used as a management tool; Examples: Planned Programming Budgetary System (PPBS), Zero-Base Budgeting, Dayton System  
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show Divides govt expenditures into program components rather than objects of expenditure; Focuses on fundamental objectives of a program, future implications of current budgeting decision, all costs, and alternatives; Robert McNamara (USDOD) in 60s-70s  
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Zero-Base Budgeting   show
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show Drucker; Establishes overarching objectives using a collaborative process; 1) Determination and communication of organizational goals; 2) interpretation and definition of those goals into performance objectives for individuals; and 3) the measurement of p  
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Subdivision design covers   show
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3 basic elements of subdivision requirements   show
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“A budget may be characterized as a series of goals with price tags attached”   show
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General obligation bonds   show
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show Sold for projects that produce revenues; Are not backed by the full faith and credit of the local jurisdiction, but are financed in the long-term through service charges or fees  
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show Facility is constructed by a private company or authority, and then leased by the municipality. Rental over the years of the lease will have paid the total original cost plus interest, and at end of lease period title conveyed to the municipality without  
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Airport planning   show
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show Those that lack areas of constant human occupation. I.e. manufacturing, warehousing, distribution.  
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