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AICP Certification Exam Fall 2018

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First Amendment   show
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Fifth amendment   show
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show No state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law/equal protection - takings, eminent domain, exactions  
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show Patrick Geddes  
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show Edward Basset  
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show Daniel Burnham  
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show Ian McHarg  
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show Lawrence Veiler  
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Father of Advocacy Planning   show
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Lawrence Veiller   show
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Robert Moses   show
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Clarence Perry   show
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show Studies organizational change, design, and relationship between complex organizational structures and the technical, market, and other conditions of their immediate environment.  
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Lewis Mumford   show
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show 1960s, advocacy planning, argued that planners should represent special interest groups rather than acting for the good of the whole community.  
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Saul Alinsky   show
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show 1969 - publishes A Ladder of Citizen Participation. Worked in public health and non-profit research. Theory on types and purposes of public participation. Uses many Model Cities programs as examples. 8 rungs ranging from tokenism to citizen control.  
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Jacob Riis   show
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Camillo Sittee   show
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Lincoln Steffens   show
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Robert Hunter   show
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show Father of Zoning, Chair of Heights of Buildings Commission, whose final 1916 report was adopted as Zoning Resolution of NYC, Coined term "freeway" and credited with parkway concept.  
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Patrick Geddes   show
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show Became Dean of new Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1936, stayed until 1953. Served on US Commission on Fine Arts 1950-53. Architecture and the Spirit of Man; The Three Lamps of Modern Architecture.  
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Jane Jacobs   show
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show Architect and interior designer. Very influential concepts of the Usonian home and Broadacre City. Prairie school of architecture, organic and inspired by nature. The Disappearing City in 1932 expounds on his ideas about future urban form.  
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show The GOod City 1963- A good city provides opportunity and community, but modern cities favor opportunity overwhelmingly. Institutional structures are the not very sexy answer to the problem.  
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show 1998. The Urban General Plan - seminal planning text -Changed planning from creating an ideal state to an activity stream that relates to problems, goals, program design, and evaluation.  
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Alan Altshuler   show
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Charles Lindblom   show
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Ian McHarg   show
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show Low income housing advocate for 30+ years. Director of the Housing Trust Fund Project at the Center for Community Change - promotes development of HTGs and neighborhood group involvement. Worked for APA and Suburban/Metro Action Institute.  
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Walter Christaller   show
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Ernest Burgess   show
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Homer Hoyt   show
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LeCorbusier   show
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show Real estate developer, civic activist, philanthropist. Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie MD in 1958 is first enclosed shopping center east of the Mississippi and first built by a devleoper. creator/developer of Columbia, MD  
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Andres Duany   show
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show Edge City: Life on the New Frontier is seminal work. Identified 180+ commerce center on the urban fringe taking on a new urban form.  
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Robert Lang   show
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show Designed Central Park; believed that the city plan should include all land uses (both public and private) and should be updated often to ensure they remain relevant  
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show Landscape architect and wildlife conservationist. Projects in Acadia, Yosemite, Everglades. McMillan Plan for DC. Boston's Emerald Necklace and master plan for Cornell campus. Bok Tower gardens. Forest Hills Gardens in 1909, a model garden suburb.  
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show Filed amicus brief in Euclid case widely credited with turning SCOTUS's opinion. With Ladislaus Segoe, produced 1925 Cincinnati Plan. Helped draft Standard State Zoning Enabling Act and Standard City Planning Enabling Act in 1920s  
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show 14th Amend/Due Process case which ruled that KS could prohibit sale of alcohol based on PP  
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show Boston can impose different height limits on buildings in different districts  
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show A ZO establishing building setback lines was held unconstitutional and not a valid use of the PP; violates the due process of law and is therefore unconstitutional under the 14th Amendmen  
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show SC upheld Los Angeles case prohibiting establishment of a brick kiln within a recently-annexed 3-mile area  
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1922 – Pennsylvania Coal Company v Mahon   show
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show Established zoning as a legal use of PP by local government. The main issue in this case was “nuisance”, and that a certain use near a residence could be considered “a pig in a parlor”. Argued by Alfred Bettman, future 1st president of ASPO.  
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1928 – Nectow v City of Cambridge   show
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show Established aesthetics and redevelopment as valid public purposes for exercising eminent domain. Wash.DC took private property and resold to a developer to achieve objectives of an established redevelopment plan.  
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show Ruling that discrimination in selling houses was not permitted based on the 13th Amendment and Section 1982 abolishing slavery and creating equality for all US citizens.  
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1968 – Cheney v Village 2 at New Hope   show
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1972 – Golden v Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo   show
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show Established hard look doctrine for environmental impact review. Section 4(f) DOT Act of 1966 – park use ok if no “feasible and prudent” alternative and “all possible planning to minimize harm”.  
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show Made National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements judicially enforceable.  
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1972 – Sierra Club v Morton   show
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show Significantly integrated public trust theories into a modern regulatory scheme. Shoreland zoning ordinance along navigable streams and other water bodies upheld.  
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show zoning to be consistent w/ comp plans, and rezonings may be judicial rather than legislative. Central issue was spot zoning, 2 measures to be deemed valid: there must be a public need for the change in question; best available option  
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show SC upheld the restrictive definition of a family as being no more than two unrelated people living together.  
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show NJ Supreme court held that in developing municipalities in growing and expanding areas, provision must be made to accommodate a fair share of low and moderate income housing. Fundamental  
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show Limited the # of residential building permits per year to 500 & placed a population cap of 55,000. The purpose was to make sure that the growth rate did not exceed the City’s ability to fund capital improvements. Court upheld.  
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1976 – Young v. American Mini Theaters   show
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show The Chicago Housing Authority and HUD had to spread out concentration of public housing (scattered site housing), including into white suburbs that were not necessarily within Chicago. Argued under the Civil Rights Act of 1964  
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1976 – Home Builders v. City of Livermore   show
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1977 – Village of Arlington Heights v Metropolitan Housing Development:   show
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1978 – Penn Central Transportation Company v The City of New York:   show
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show Court forced full implementation and enforcement of the Endangered Species Act. Halted the Tellico Dam, which was almost completely built, because the endangered Snail Darter — a fish — was found.  
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1980 – Agins v. City of Tiburon   show
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1980 – Central Hudson v Public Service Commission:   show
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1981 – Metromedia, Inc v City of San Diego:   show
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1982 – Loretto v Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corporation   show
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1983 – South Burlington County NAACP v Township of Mount Laurel II   show
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show 1st amendment case which allowed the City Council to exert control over posting of election signs on public telephone poles.  
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show SC decision which ruled that the City had illegally denied group homes special use permits based on neighbor’s unfounded fears  
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show Defined the ripeness doctrine for judicial review of takings claims.  
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show Upheld the requirement of minimum distances between SOBs.  
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show Allowed damages (as opposed to invalidation) as a remedy for regulatory taking. Just compensation clause of the 5th Amendment requires compensation for temporary takings which occur as a result of regulations that are ultimately invalidated.  
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1987 – Nollan v California Coastal Commission   show
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1992 – Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Council   show
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show Extended Nollan’s essential nexus test to require “Rough proportionality” between development impacts and conditions on development. (bike path/store/lessening overall traffic)  
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show SC ruled that the display of a sign by a homeowner was protected by the 1st amendment under freedom of speech.  
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1995 – Babbitt v Sweet Home Chap. of Communities for a Great OR   show
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show Sanctioned the use of moratoria & reaffirmed the “parcel-as-a-whole” rule for takings review. Moratoria on development not a per se taking under the 5th amendment, but should be analyzed under the multi-factor Penn Central test.  
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2005 – Lingle v. Chevron:   show
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show the City taking private property by eminent domain and transferring it to a private entity for redevelopment Court held that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible “public use”  
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show SC ruled that a licensed radio operator who was denied a CUP for a “commercial” antenna cannot seek monetary damages because it would distort the congressional intent of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.  
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2006 - Massachusetts v. EPA   show
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2006 - Rapanos v. United States   show
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show Hydroelectric dams are subject to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.  
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show Ebenezer Howard - The Garden City is self-contained with a population of 32,000 and a land area of 6,000 acres. The city itself would house 30,000 people on 1,000 acres, with remaining land & pop in farming areas. Land ownership =held by a corporation.  
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City Beautiful Movement   show
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show 1920s, standardization, reaction against the City Beautiful movement, which was seen as overly focused on beauty and not sufficiently concerned with matters of function and efficiency - focus on technical details - advent of auto - depression haulted  
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City Humane Movement   show
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New Towns   show
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City Functional Movement   show
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Synoptic Rationality Planning   show
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show Lindblom - people make their plans and decisions in an incremental manner, accomplishing their goals through a series of successive, limited comparisons.  
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show 1973, Friedmann, e planner meets with individuals in the community to discuss issues and help develop a plan. Through a process of "mutual learning," the planner shares technical knowledge, while the citizens provide community knowledge.  
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show 1960s, Paul Davidoff, The advocacy planner should be responsible for a particular interest group in the community and create plans that express that group's values and objectives.  
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Radical Planning   show
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show 1950's Set Goals Determine Alternatives Evaluate the Alternatives Choose an Alternative Implement the Alternative Evaluate  
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Radiant City   show
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Concentric Ring Theory   show
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show 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright, each home situated on an acre or more, each house has auto, new suburban utopia  
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Central Place Theory   show
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Sector Theory   show
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show 1945, Harris and Ullman, argued that cities develop a series of specific land use nuclei. A land use nucleus is formed because of accessibility to natural resources, clustering of similar uses, land prices, and the repelling power of land uses.  
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show 1960, William Alonso, a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases. It states that different land users will compete with one another for  
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Urban Realm   show
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show 1982, Andres Duany, Seaside Florida  
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Edge City   show
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Smart Growth   show
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Ordinance of 1785   show
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Township   show
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HUD   show
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CDBG 1974   show
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Housing Act of 1934   show
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Housing Act of 1937   show
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Housing Act of 1949   show
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show called for slum prevention and urban renewal. Additionally, the Act provided funding for planning for cities under 25,000 population. The 701 funds were later expanded to allow for statewide, interstate, and regional planning. largest impetus for comp pln  
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show the first federal law prohibiting discrimination between sex, race, national origin, religion and familial status.  
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ISTEA   show
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MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century)   show
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EPA   show
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NEPA (1970)   show
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show Implemented to protect public health and welfare by limiting air pollution emissions and exposure to ambient air pollutants. It created National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and required non-attainment areas to develop strategies to achieve compl  
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Clean Water Act (1972)   show
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show declares that no government may implement land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious assembly or institution unless the government demonstrates that imposition of burden both is in furtherance of compelling governm  
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Dillon's Rule   show
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show Local governments have all functions not prohibited/preempted by State or Federal law, cities have the right to develop their own regulations, except where the state has specifically stated otherwise.  
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Erie Canal   show
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show Union Pacific and Central Pacific joined at Promontory Point Utah  
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1st US city with a subway   show
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1901 Plan for Washington D.C.   show
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1st historic preservation commission   show
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show Columbus OH 1923  
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1st historic preservation ordinance   show
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show Lexington KY 1958  
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show Hawaii 1961  
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show Joined to form APA in 1978  
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Largest concrete structure in the US   show
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show Zone Improvement Plan Code  
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1 acre   show
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show 1 mile  
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show 1 hectacre  
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show 1 square mile  
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show 1:24,000  
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show Used to develop a consensus between two or more groups that are in conflict; the views of each group are presented in successive rounds of argument and counterargument, with the rounds gradually working towards a consensu  
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3 C's of Public Engagement   show
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1964 Economic Opportunity Act   show
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show Non participation + Tokensim + Citizen Power Manipulation, Therapy, Informing, Consultation, Placation, Partnership, Delegated Power, Citizen Control  
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Tennessee Valley Authority   show
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Hoover Dam   show
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Chesapeake Bay Agreement - 1983   show
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show Created to run most regional transportation infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, airports, seaports) within NY-NJ Port District along Hudson and East Rivers  In charge World Trade Center plaza rebuilding  
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Appalachian Regional Commission - 1963   show
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show Hawaii, Maryland, Florida, and Tennessee  
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Coastal Zone Management Act 1972   show
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show 1962 Federal Highway Act required their formation, Bureau of Public Roads (FHA) required the creation of planning agencies that would be responsible for carrying out the required transportation planning processes  
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1996 Symposium on Neighborhood Collaborative Planning   show
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ETJ - Extraterritorial Jurisdiction   show
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FEMA   show
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Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000   show
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show prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, in order to reduce the loss of life and property and harm to the environment.  
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Incident Command System - ICS   show
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National Response Framework - NRF   show
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National Response Plan - NRP   show
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Location Quoitent   show
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Economic Base Theory   show
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Shift Share Analysis   show
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show what part of local job growth is due to growth in the national economy  
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show the effect of industry trends on local employment  
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show unique local factors relating to local employment growth or decline  
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show The plan focused on suburban development, highway construction, and suburban recreational facilities. Stein and Mumford were involved in the creation of the plan (Clarence Perry's neighborhood unit published)  
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National Historic Preservation Act 1966   show
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show the official list of our country's historic buildings, districts, sites, structures, and objects worthy of preservation, Run by National Park Service/DOI  
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show Iniate the process, determine undertaking, identify historic properties and National Register eligibility, assess adverse effects, resolve adverse effects  
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show enabled nonprofit housing organizations to raise housing construction funds by selling tax credits to investors and corporations. Tax credits must be used for new construction, rehabilitation or both.  
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5 Sections of AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct   show
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show 26, 8 conflict of interest, 7 accurate information, 4 code procedures  
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4 Potential Disciplinary Actions for Ethics complaint   show
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show Etzioni - recognizing the difference between policy-changing decisions and implementation decisions.Ex: a comprehensive plan would be created using the rational planning approach, while the implementation of the plan would use an incremental approach.  
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show adopted equity planning in Cleveland during the 1970s and helped make the needs of low-income groups the highest priority.  
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Equity Planning   show
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Communicative Planning (modern)   show
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Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago - 1912   show
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Carrying out the City Plan   show
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ACIP - American City Planning Institute - 1917   show
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show Founded in 1934  
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First Code of Ethics adopted/test administered   show
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show 1960- book defines basic concepts within the city, nodes, edges, paths, etc.  
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show Silent Spring 1962 - book focuses on negative effects of pesticides on the environment  
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Harland Bartholomew   show
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show authored Urbanism as a Way of Life (1938); argued for urbanism and claimed density of cities influences behaviors in city  
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James Howard Kunstler   show
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William Whyte   show
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show designed Radburn, NJ ("town in which people could live peacefully with the automobile-or rather in spite of it")  
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show Founded the Sierra Club in 1892, wilderness preservation  
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show First professionally trained forester in the US, first director of the US Forest Service (1905), leader of the conservation movement  
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show A management study that evaluates the benefits of a solution (including programmatic & personnel) costs to the value/benefit of the outcome  
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Fiscal Impact Analysis   show
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show Budget process which assumes that the baseline budget each fiscal cycle is zero, decision packages created  
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WBS (management)   show
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Gantt chart   show
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show Program Evaluation & ReviewTechnique - variable task times, graphically illustrates the interrelationships of project task  
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show Critical Path Method, fixed task times, analysis results in a "critical path” through the project tasks, longest pathway is the critical patphway  
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Average Per Capita Method (FIA)   show
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Adjusted Per Capita Method (FIA)   show
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Disaggregated Per Capita Method (FIA)   show
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Dynamic Method (FIA)   show
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Basic Steps of Comprehensive Plan Making   show
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show engages tribal government leaders, residents, and businesses in preparing plans and administering planning processes in support of the tribal community. Tribal governments develop comprehensive plans, much like in cities.  
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show USDOT supports process that allows federal agencies to consult with Tribes on transportation policy, regulation, and projects  
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Subdivision   show
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Plat   show
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Replat   show
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Amending Plat   show
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show allows for a plat to be terminated prior to the selling of any lots.  
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Preliminary Plat   show
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Final Plat   show
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Performance Bonds   show
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show gifts of land for public purposes, such as roads, parks, and utilities, I.e. easements  
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Impact fee   show
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show the extension of development benefits beyond those normally offered in exchange for enhancements such as affordable housing, cluster housing, and open space preservation.  
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show Identifies land use across 5 dimensions (Activity, Function, Structure Type, Site Development Character, Ownership), each category has 9 color values  
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Euclidean Zoning   show
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show each successive zoning district allows all the uses from the previous zones:  
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Modified cumulative zoning   show
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Nonconforming Use   show
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show An overlay district or zone is a set of additional restrictions that are placed over the top of an existing zone. Two common overlays are for airports and historic preservation.  
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show change in the terms of the zoning regulations due to economic or physical hardship. There are two types of variances: the use variance and the area variance.  
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show generally has 50,000 or more square feet in a large box (most department stores are over 100,000 square feet  
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show include the practice of raising farm animals indoors and in high volumes. Local governments may be limited in their ability to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations because of Right-to-Farm laws  
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show attempts to preserve agricultural practices and make farming more viable. Right to farm laws deny nuisance lawsuits against farmers, even if their agricultural practices harm or bother adjacent property owners -aim to minimize the threat to normal farming  
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show s the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built. FAR is most frequently used in downtown areas to help control for light and air.  
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show an alternative to the conventional minimum parking standards that most communities have. Maximum parking standards cap the amount of parking that a property owner or business can provide  
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show a term that describes large houses that are mass produced and have perceived negative impacts on the community, sometimes because they are out of scale with surrounding homes  
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show a term that refers to the demolition of a home for the purposes of building a larger home on the same lot. This type of development frequently occurs in large cities and in neighborhoods convenient to employment centers  
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show rovides economic benefits "for individuals, for neighborhoods, for communities, for developers, for land owners, and for the economy as a whole."  
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show defined as balancing the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the natural environment so that the present and future population's needs can be met. Sustainability includes environmental, social, and economic components  
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show irst coined in 1994 by John Elkington. His argument was that companies should be preparing three different bottom lines: one for corporate profit, one for people, and one for the planet.  
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show a biological concept indicating the maximum population size of a species that could be sustained in perpetuity within the environment, given the availability of food, water, habitat, etc - discuss the max population and employment that could be carried  
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show eals with the number of trips that a particular site is likely to generate. Thus, it is a byproduct of land use and intensity of use, factors which "induce" people to travel.  
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Origin-Destination Survey   show
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Cross-tabulation models   show
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show 11 daily trip ends for every 1,000 square feet of general office space 9.6 daily trip ends per single family residential dwelling 6.6 daily trip ends per apartment unit 43 daily trip ends per 1,000 square feet of shopping center space 7 daily trip ends  
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Trip End   show
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Trip Distribution   show
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show an be used to provide trip estimates based on the proportional attractiveness of the zone (the "gravitational pull") and inversely proportional to the trip length.  
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Modal Split   show
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show Average Daily Annual Traffic = amount of traffic on a roadway in a 24 hour period, averaged over a year  
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Peak Hour Volume   show
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show Peak hour volume during different seasons  
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Design Hour Volume   show
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Traffic Assignment   show
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VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled)   show
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show Collect data, describe and summarize the distribution of values, interpret by means of inferential statistics and modeling  
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Nominal Data   show
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Ordinal Data   show
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Interval Data   show
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Ratio Data   show
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show an take an infinite number of values, both positive and negative, and with as fine a degree of precision as desired. Most measurements in the physical sciences yield continuous variables.  
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Discrete variables   show
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show can only take on two values, typically coded as 0 and 1.  
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Population   show
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Sample   show
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Descriptive Statistics   show
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Inferential Statistics   show
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show overall shape of all observed data. It can be listed as an ordered table, or graphically represented by a histogram or density plot.  
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show a typical or representative value for distribution of observed values. (mean, median, mode)  
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show How distribution values are spread around the central tendency  
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show is an attribute used to describe the shape of a data distribution.  
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show If the skewness of S is zero then the distribution represented by S is perfectly symmetric. If the skewness is negative, then the distribution is skewed to the left, while if the skew is positive then the distribution is skewed to the right  
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Kurtosis   show
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Normal/Gaussian Distribution (Bell Curve)   show
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show a measure of how spread out a distribution is. It is computed as the average squared deviation of each number from its mean.  
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show square root of the variance.  
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Coefficient of Variation   show
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show the number of standard deviations from the mean a data point is. But more technically it's a measure of how many standard deviations below or above the population mean a raw score is  
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show is a measure of variability, based on dividing a data set into quartiles. Quartiles divide a rank-ordered data set into four equal parts.  
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show distinguish between the null hypothesis (H0), i.e., the point of departure or reference, and the alternative hypothesis (H1), or the research hypothesis one wants to find support for by rejecting the null hypothesis  
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show uses the change in population (increase or decline) over a period of time and extrapolates this change to the future, in a linear fashion (i.e. grows by 1,000 people every year)  
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Exponential and Modified Exponential Method   show
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Symptomatic Method   show
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show uses the ratio of the population in a city and a county (or a larger geographical unit) at a known point in time, such as the decennial Census.  
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Distributed Housing Unit Method   show
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Cohort Survival Method   show
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Input-Output Analysis   show
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North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)   show
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show Discontinuation of the long form, To avoid undercounting, the Census Bureau enlisted thousands of groups such as churches, charities, and other organizations to promote the importance of participating in the count  
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2000 Decennial Census of Population   show
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Urbanized Area   show
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Urban Cluster   show
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)   show
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show has a population of more than 10,000 people and less than 50,000 people. This includes a central county and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration as measured by commuting.  
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Census Designated Places (CDP)   show
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show made up of several PMSA's. An example is the Dallas-Fort Worth Consolidated Metropolitan Area. Dallas and Fort Worth are each primary metropolitan statistical areas.  
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Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)   show
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Megalopolis   show
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Census Tract   show
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Census Block   show
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show Group of census blocks  
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show a unit only used in 29 states and usually corresponds to a municipality.  
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show used in the 21 states that do not have MCD's.  
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show a unit drawn by tribes that do not have a recognized land area. These are defined independently of the standard county-based census delineations.  
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show a term that is under a number of government programs to determine program eligibility  
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Fastest growing states   show
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show replaces the long form in the decennial Census, takes a sample of the population and projects the findings to the population as a whole. Survey rotates annually so that no household receives the survey more than once every five years  
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show People born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 are known as Baby Boomers  
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Generation X   show
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show These are the children of the baby boomers. These people were born between approximately 1977 and 2000. The exact years of this generation vary depending on the source. These are generally children born in the 1980s and 1990s.  
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Generation Z   show
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TIGER   show
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show Digital aerial photography has allowed for increased accuracy to the 0.5-foot resolution  
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show how digital data about the elevation of the earth's surface as it varies across communities allows planners to analyze and map it.  
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show s a new technology using a laser, instead of radio waves, that is mounted in an airplane to provide detailed topographic information.  
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show simulation software program that models planning and urban development.  
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CommunityViz   show
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show developed by Peter Calthorpe and Associates, uses a library of place types, block types, and building types to support interactive scenario building.  
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show an intensive collaborative effort that brings together citizens, stakeholders, and staff to develop a detailed design plan for a specific area, may be held over one or more days  
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Delphi Method   show
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show group process involving problem identification, solution generation, and decision making that can be used for groups of any size that want to come to a decision by vote.  
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Facilitation   show
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show a method in which a neutral third party facilitates discussion in a structured multi-stage process to help parties reach a satisfactory agreement. The mediator assists the parties in identifying and articulating their interests and priorities  
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Coffee Klatch   show
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show a process whereby citizens attend a series of meetings that provide the opportunity for them to offer input on how the community could be in the future- focus is on the what the community wants to be rather than looking at existing conditions  
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US Geological Survey Scale   show
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show 0-0.5% = no drainage, not suited for development; 0.5-1% = no problems, ideal for all types of development; 1-3% = slight problems for large commercial areas; acceptable for residential; 3-5% = major problems for commercial/industrial/large scale resid  
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show Introduction (Purpose & Need), Description of Affected Environment, Range of Alternatives (heart of EIS), analysis of environmental impact of each alternative  
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Five Topics Addressed by EIS   show
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show estimates the total monetary value of the benefits and costs to the community of a project(s) to determine whether they should be undertaken.  
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show a method for selecting among competing projects when resources are limited, was developed by the military, cost-effectiveness ratio is the CE Ratio = (cost of new strategy - cost of current practice)/(effect of new strategy - effect of current practice)  
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show shows the net monetary value of a project, discounted to today's present value. For example, if the net present value of a proposed hockey arena is > zero then one can conclude that the monetary benefit of the hockey arena outweighs its monetary costs  
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internal rate of return   show
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Goals Achievement Matrix   show
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show a project management method that attempts to find the optimum design solution for a project. This system takes a set of decision variables within constraints and comes up with an optimum design solution.  
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PERT Steps   show
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Operating budget   show
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show includes long-term purchases, such as a new building, recreation center, water main, or major equipment. A capital budget is a one-year budget for capital expenditures, while a Capital Improvements Program (CIP) is a longer range (5-7 year)  
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Capital Improvements Program   show
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show the emphasis is on projecting the budget for the next year while adding in inflationary costs. The advantage of this method is that it does not require any evaluation of existing services, and it is easy to prepare and justify, short-term focus,  
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show focused on planning through accomplishing goals set by a department. The advantage of this method is that it helps departments place their programs in perspective and evaluate efforts and accomplishments.  
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show Budget organized by program area, long range planning of goals and required resources, policy analysis, cost benefit analysis and program evaluation  
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Zero-Base Budgeting (ZBB)   show
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ZBB Elements   show
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Performance-based budget   show
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Performance based budget elements   show
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show uses current funds to pay for capital improvement projects;  
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show ones that have been saved for the purchase of future capital improvements;  
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show voter-approved bonds for capital improvements. GO Bonds use the tax revenue of the government to pay back the debt;  
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show use a fixed source of revenue to pay back the debt. For example, revenue bonds could be issued to pay for a new water main. The debt would be paid back through the water use fees.  
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show allows a designated area to have tax revenue increases used for capital improvements in that area, The designated area receives targeted investment, such as infrastructure improvements which should enable redevelopment and reinvestment in the area. The in  
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Special Assessments   show
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show allows a government to "rent-to-own.” The benefit is that the government does not have to borrow money to finance the acquisition of a major capital improvement.  
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show allow for all or a portion of the cost of a public facility to be paid for by someone other than the local government. Grants are available from all levels of government, the private sector, and foundations  
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Progressive Taxes   show
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show The tax rate is the same regardless of income. For example, a property tax rate is the same regardless of the price of your home.  
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Regressive Taxes   show
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Criteria for Implementing a Tax   show
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show "equal access to wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society." In planning, social justice is about people being able to realize their potential in the communities in which they live  
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Horizontal/flat Organization   show
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Vertical or hierarchical Organization   show
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show encourage interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving. However, they are difficult to manage and can be ineffective for large organization  
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show Analyze needs, identify objectives, SWOT, stakeholders, develop & evaluate alternatives, identify role of city, develop funding policy, evaluate performance  
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show ocuses on the integration of ICT and the Internet of Things (IoT) -- devices that use the internet to support the delivery of public services and the livability of communities.  
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show San Francisco, 1867  
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show Cleveland, 1903  
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First major American city to apply City Beautiful principles   show
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show New York City, 1916  
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show Los Angeles, 1922  
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show Confirmed New York State’s authority to delegate police power to municipalities to enact local zoning ordinances. Drafted and approved under Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.  
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show Cincinnati, 1925  
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Standard City Planning Enabling Act   show
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First state to introduce statewide zoning   show
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show created the New York Housing Authority. In 1965 he published The City is the Frontier, a book that was highly critical of U.S. federal policies surrounding slum clearance, urban renewal, and public housing.  
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Thomas Adams   show
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John Nolen   show
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show an architect responsible for designing Arcosanti, an experimental utopian city in Arizona focused on minimizing the impact of development on the natural environment.  
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Clarence Stein   show
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show served as the head of the Resettlement Administration during the New Deal. He worked on the greenbelt cities program, which sought construction of new, self-sufficient cities  
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Sir Raymond Unwin   show
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Catherine Bauer Wurster   show
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Substantive due process   show
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Procedural due process   show
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show often applied to exclusionary zoning.  
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show The Court upheld temporary moratoriums on building permits.  
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show Court found that the 1875 General Railroad ROW Act grants an easement for the railroad’s land. When railroad company abandons the land, it should be settled as an easement and if it is abandoned, it disappears and the land reverts to the previous owner.  
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show The Court held that the EPA must provide a reasonable justification for why it would not regulate greenhouse gases.  
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Rapanos v. United States; U.S. Supreme Court (2006)   show
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show The Court found that hydroelectric dams are subject to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.  
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show policies that even inadvertently relegate minorities to poor areas violate the Fair Housing Act.  
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show city cannot impose a more stringent restriction on signs directing the public to a meeting than on signs conveying other messages. The Court found the sign ordinance was not content neutral.  
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show The Court ruled that the acquisition of the national battlefield at Gettysburg served a valid public purpose. This was the first significant legal case dealing with historic preservation.  
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Fred French Investing Co. v. City of New York; New York Court of Appeals (1976)   show
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Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. DeBenedictis; U.S. Supreme Court (1987)   show
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show Public utilities challenged a federal statute that authorized the Federal Communications Commission to regulate rents charged by utilities to cable TV operators for the use of utility poles. The Court found that a taking had not occurred.  
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show answering the question of whether an owner must attempt to sell their development rights before claiming a regulatory taking of property without just compensation - no  
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City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey Ltd.; U.S. Supreme Court (1999)   show
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Palazzolo v. Rhode Island; U.S. Supreme Court (2001)   show
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show The Supreme Court ruled that submerged lands that would be filled by the state for beach reclamation did not constitute a taking of property without just compensation (in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments).  
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Koontz v. St. John's River Water Management (2012)   show
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Munn v. Illinois; U.S. Supreme Court (1876)   show
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City of Boerne v. Flores; U.S. Supreme Court (1997)   show
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show 500 feet max tangents, use of stop signs/speed bumps, 150 feet between intersections, clear sight distance of 75 feet  
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show 400-450 feet long and 40 foot turn around radius  
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Typical minimum street gradient   show
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show published by the Transportation Research Board, provides concepts, guidelines, and procedures for computing highway capacity and quality of service based on road type.  
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show range from A to F. A LOS of A means there is free-flowing traffic and F means heavy traffic congestion with severely reduced traffic speeds.  
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show designating 65,000 km of interstate highways. These highways, to be selected by state highway departments, authorized the highway system but did not provide funding.  
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show responsible for implementing the highway system, and in 1947 designated 60,640 km of interstate highways  
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show authorized $25 million for the construction of interstate highways and another $175 million two years later.  
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show $25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways over a 20 year period. The funding came through the creation of the Highway Trust Fund which gathers money from excise taxes on new vehicles and sales tax on gasoline.  
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Federal Highway Act of 1962   show
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TEA-21 (Transportation Equity Act)   show
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Telecommunications Act 1996   show
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show major HUD plan meant to revitalize public housing projects into mixed-income developments, established to replace the many large-scale, low quality public housing projects with smaller, higher quality mixed income projects  
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show enabled nonprofit housing organizations to raise housing construction funds by selling tax credits to investors and corporations. Tax credits must be used for new construction, rehabilitation or both.  
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CERCLA (Superfund) 1980   show
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show seeks to address discrimination in loans made to individuals and businesses. It was put in place to stop widespread practice of redlining of urban, low income minority neighborhoods.  
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show largest surface transportation allocation in US history, Highway Safety Improvement Program to keep up with repair and reconstruction of aging infrastructure  
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show the first federal law in over a decade to provide long-term funding certainty for surface transportation infrastructure planning and investment. The FAST Act authorizes $305 billion over fiscal years 2016 through 2020 for highway, highway and motor vehicl  
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Transportation Improvement Program (TIP_   show
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Transportation Demand Management (TDM)   show
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TDM Strategies   show
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Transit Oriented Development (TOD)   show
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Chicane   show
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Choker   show
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show does not allow traffic beyond a certain point in the roadway. For example, a partial closure could change the traffic from two-way to one-way at a point on the road.  
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show change the alignment of roadways near an intersection. This causes traffic to slow prior to entering the intersection  
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Roundabouts   show
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show raised areas placed across a road and are 3 to 4 inches tall. They reduce traffic speed by causing uncomfortable driving conditions if the driver goes too fast.  
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show larger than a speed hump. It has a flat-top and may have brick or another textured material on the flat surface. A speed table is long enough for the entire vehicle to rest on the flat section of the table.  
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Traffic circles   show
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show 9 or 10 feet by 18 feet - 180 square feet  
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Peak Parking Demand   show
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show a safe, accessible, and convenient street that everyone can use regardless of age, ability or mode of transportation. This means that motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit riders have sufficient infrastructure for safe access.  
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Adequate public facilities ordinance (APFO)   show
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show the practice of requiring that infrastructure be in place and available at a specified level of service prior to allowing new development to occur  
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Daylighting (2 kinds)   show
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show efers to water-based infrastructure. This can include stormwater management, such as bioretention systems, swales, reservoirs, rain gardens, constructed wetlands, and other waterways.  
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show emphasizes the role of the natural environment in land use planning. A significant emphasis is on converting single-purpose gray stormwater infrastructure (piped drainage and water treatment systems) —to reducing and treating stormwater at its source  
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show a term for building environments that are safe for current and future generations, protecting buildings, infrastructure and the natural environment from damag  
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show efers to the ability of a community to return to its original form after it has been changed. Often resiliency is used to refer to a community’s ability to recover from a natural hazard, economic shock, or other major events.  
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Substantial Damage   show
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Substantial Improvement   show
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Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act   show
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Stafford Act four components of a state hazard mitigation plan (Section 409)   show
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Disaster Mitigation Act (2000)   show
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National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) 1994   show
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1950 Federal Disaster Relief Act   show
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1966 Disaster Relief Act of 1966   show
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show Created the National Flood Insurance Program, currently administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  
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show allocated $150 million for assistance from the President's Disaster Relief Fund—the largest sum for any one year in history. Significant additional funds were spent on disaster assistance under other Federal programs.  
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1973 Flood Disaster Protection Act   show
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show set a precedent for legislative disaster relief in the U.S., allowed for presidential declarations of disaster - replaced by Stafford  
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show is a statute formulating a national policy to diminish the perils of earthquakes in the United States. The Act of Congress is a declaration for an earthquake prediction system, national earthquake hazards reduction program, and seismological research stud  
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show April 22, 1970  
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Metropolitan Water District of Southern California   show
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Effluent Standards   show
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show discharged directly from a specific site, such as a sewage treatment plant or an industrial pipe.  
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Non-point Source Pollution   show
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show safe to drink.  
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show one or more strata of rock or sediment that is saturated and sufficiently permeable to yield economically significant quantities of water to wells or springs.  
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show where freshwater meets saltwater  
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show hallow body of water that is located alongside a coast.  
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Marsh   show
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show a pond, lake, tank, or basin that can be used for the storage and control of water, and can be either natural or man-made.  
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show includes rivers, lakes, oceans, ocean-like water bodies, and coastal tidal waters  
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Swamp   show
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Watershed   show
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show areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.  
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show In order to discharge pollutants into the water, a Point Source Discharge Permit must be obtained from the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES).  
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show Ozone Particulate Matter Carbon Monoxide Nitrogen Dioxide Sulfur Dioxide Lead  
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Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD)   show
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Ambient Air Quality Standards   show
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Environmental Assessment   show
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The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899   show
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The Water Pollution Control Act of 1948   show
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show established the Water Pollution Control Administration within the Department of the Interior. This was the first time water quality was treated as an environmental concern rather than a public health concern.  
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show he amendments broadened the government's authority over water pollution and restructured the authority for water pollution under the Environmental Protection Agency, changed to regulate number of pollutants being discharged from particular point sources  
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show provides protection of animal and plant species that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designates as threatened or endangered. This act was later amended in 1988.  
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show promotes alternative energy sources, energy efficiency, and reduced dependence on foreign oil. It also created a market for non-utility power producers and requires competition in the utility industry.  
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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976   show
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The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976   show
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)   show
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show This law protects both the sources of drinking water and the end product.  
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show real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties takes development pressures off of  
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Executive Order 12898 Clinton 1994   show
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ROE (Report on the Environment Indicators)   show
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show All fossil fuels, Coal, crude oil, and natural gas are all considered fossil fuels (formed from the buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago). Natural gas and methane gas (a naturally occurring byproduct of decaying plant and  
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show cannot be exhausted and is constantly renewed. This includes sunlight, geothermal heat, wind, tides, water, and various forms of biomass.  
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Biomass energy   show
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show ypically associated with large dams. It uses falling water to produce power, which is moved through a turbine, causing it to spin. The spinning turbine is coupled with a generator, which produces energy.  
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Passive Solar Design   show
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Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems   show
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R-Value   show
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show geographic areas in which companies can qualify for a variety of subsidies. The original intent of most EZ programs was to encourage businesses to stay, locate, or expand in depressed areas and thereby help to revitalize them  
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Context-Sensitive Design (CSD)   show
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A Form-based code   show
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New Urbanism   show
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show The six Transect Zones instead provide the basis for real neighborhood structure, which requires walkable streets, mixed use, transportation options, and housing diversity.  
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The 6 Transect Zones   show
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Areas under the normal distribution curve   show
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In 2009, ___ percent of the population lived in multi-generational households based on ACS data   show
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show credited with coining the term "communicative planning" in her article Planning Theory’s Emerging Paradigm: Communicative Action and Interactive Practice.  
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Indian Reorganization Act   show
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Inclusionary Zoning   show
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show establishes a program to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands.  
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When did large-scale aid programs begin   show
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show coupon rate  
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show a method of acquiring title to a property by possession for a period of time, based on statute.  
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show Squatters rights are a specific form of adverse possession. Squatters typically do not have a right to the title of the property but cannot be removed without due process  
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show occurs when the land has no legal owner or is owned by the government, the government allows homesteading with an expectation that the person occupying the property will undertake specific actions to gain the title.  
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Adverse abandonment   show
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Federal definition of homelessness   show
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Biophilic design   show
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New York State Tenement House Law 1901   show
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show the shape of the building footprint: the air shaft gives each tenement the narrow-waisted shape of a dumbbell, wide facing the street and backyard, narrowed in between to create the air corridor.  
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show based on the distance to the nearest fire station and the availability of water to service a fire.  
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show Declined from 72 percent in 1960 to 51 percent in 2010  
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Marriage rates between 1960-2000   show
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show feedback & compromise - most successful negotiators start off assuming collaborative (integrative) or win-win negotiation. Most good negotiators will try for a win-win or aim at a situation where both sides feel they won  
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Arbitration   show
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show 4,000 acre master planned development was developed to provide jobs, recreation, shopping, health care, and a mix of housing at different price points  
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show an urban design framework that examines urbanized regions as the product of past economic and industrial processes. The concept developed by Alan Berger  
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show relates to things that can happen that create unreliable data i.e. clarity of questions  
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most commonly used for traffic volume   show
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show American Community Survey (ACS) American Housing Survey (AHS) Current Population Survey (CPS) Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)  
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show Submit a petition to the AICP Ethics Committee  
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show allows for brainstorming allowing for all members of a group to meaningfully participate. There are silent times allowing for idea generation followed by individual sharing of ideas.  
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2010 Censu - how many residential units owner occupied   show
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show cities with minority mayors  
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Grayfields   show
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show Herbert Simon, a decision-making strategy that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met.  
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Affordability index   show
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show I. Major employers II. Business conditions III. Employment growth  
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colocation facility   show
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show sed by the World Bank and other development organizations to make sure that project beneficiaries can provide insights on how a project will affect them, particularly the poor and those without political power.  
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Computer-Aided Negotiation   show
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show used as the starting point for many planning projects, shows the essential natural or man-determined features of an area  
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Bill Process   show
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show Detroit has approximately 70,000 vacant lots making up approximately 27% of the land area.  
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In order to improve the sample reliability, which of the following should you do?   show
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show term used to describe the amount of time between messages appearing on a digital sign.  
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show Teddy Roosevelt  
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Connectivity Index   show
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show highly distressed urban and rural communities that may be eligible for a combination of grants, tax credits for businesses, bonding authority and other benefits.  
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Traffic Analysis Zones   show
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show he maximum rate at which vehicles can pass through a given point in an hour under prevailing conditions; it is often estimated based on assumed values for saturation flow.  
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show designed to permit interaction that occurs in small groups but can be witnessed by a larger group  
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show 4-D Process of Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny. Each organization has a unique set of relationships with in the company and among stakeholders.  
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Multiattribute Utility Analysis   show
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Regression Analysis   show
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show Roosevelt established the Rural Resettlement Administration with a goal of moving people off of agriculturally exhausted land and into greenbelt cities.  
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show provides detailed descriptions of manual techniques for use in each aspect of travel demand estimation, i.e., trip generation, trip distribution, modal choice, auto occupancy, time-of-day distribution, Traffic assignment, capacity analysis, and developmen  
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Oregon’s Measure 37   show
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Coefficients of runoff   show
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Sewage Treatment Process   show
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show an owner or developer is entitled to proceed in accordance with the prior zoning provision where there has been a substantial change of position, expenditures, or incurrence of obligations  
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Best Project management technique when time is a factor   show
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Sample selection bias   show
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What technique can be used to find the optimum design solution on a project?   show
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best way to resolve a conflict in the community?   show
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Section 8   show
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show provides for the possibility of rental assistance - this is only possible where market conditions support such use  
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Jane Adams   show
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Present/Future value formula   show
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show Roads are typically sloped up to a half-inch per foot in order to provide positive drainage  
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show Detroit 1954  
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show R-20  
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A. Lacustrine B. Littoral C. Oligotrophic D. Palustrine   show
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You decide to propose a national heritage area in your region. Which of the following are appropriate actions?   show
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show compact, mixed-income, walkable neighborhoods with access to public transit  
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show including preserves, corridors, and trailheads, among other types of green infrastructure  
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show A parking cash-out program allows employees the option of cashing out their subsidized parking space and taking transit to work for free.  
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Federal Property Administration Act of 1949   show
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show North American Free Trade Agreement to lift tariffs (taxes on imports and exports) on virtually all goods traded among the US, Canada, and Mexico. NAFTA came into effect on January 1, 1994,  
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Which state has the highest number of endangered species   show
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First National Park   show
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show Talent Technology & Tolerance  
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show group of techniques that allow for the provision and analysis of information by the public. These are typically highly visual including creation of maps or picture cards  
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Addressing changes in retail   show
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show Identification of Minority or Low-Income Populations, Public Participation, Numeric Analysis (that agencies should consider relevant demographic, public health and industry data), and Alternatives and Mitigation  
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show Multimodal freight planning typically happens at a national and state level, focusing on supporting adequate, convenient and safe access for goods movement - faciltate good movement and address negative impacts  
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show 9-15 Having at least 9 members ensures that all personality types are represented with a diversity of voices. A small committee can at times not bring a broad enough set of interests to the table  
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Resettlement Administrationdeveloped these three greenbelt towns   show
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show Gross Operating Income X (1 – the vacancy rate) – operating expenses  
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Plural Planning   show
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Channelization   show
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The City as a Growth Machine" Theory   show
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show allowed public lands to be sold for a nominal fee.  
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Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act   show
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show The HOME program provides block grants to local governments to increase the supply of affordable housing. The funds can be used to provide down payment assistance, construct or renovate affordable housing, acquire sites for affordable housing development,  
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show Management By Objectives term was first popularized by Peter Drucker in 1954 in his book 'The Practice of Management'. Management by Objectives (MBO) is a process of agreeing upon objectives within an organization so that management and employees agree to  
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Appalachian Regional Commission   show
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show the number of live births per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 years  
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show I. Protect property values II. Protect the health and safety of the community III. Protect the environment  
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Susan Fainstein, there are three elements of the "Just City"   show
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show provided by the Bureau of Economic Analysis provides employment multipliers based on the North American Industrial Classification System which can be used to calculate a location quotient  
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According to Aristotle, who is considered the pioneer of urban planning because of his plan for a city of 50,000 that addressed administrative structure, social structure, and land subdivision?   show
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show Established setback requirements  
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Easement by necessity   show
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show safety, infrastructure condition, congestion reduction, system reliability, freight movement & economic vitality, environmental sustainability and reduced project delivery delay  
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show the discharge of pollutants into the environment in an untreated, partially treated, or completely treated state.  
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Smart Decline   show
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LOS B   show
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characteristic of a traditional small town   show
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show I. Long range and general II. Comprehensive and adopted at one time with all elements integrated III. Focused on the physical development implications of socio-economic policies IV. Identified as the City Council's plan  
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key functions that taxes serve?   show
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show s an account that manages the revenues and expenditures of a self-sufficient activity such as a minor league baseball park, parking garage or zoo.  
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show broad public participation and is based on key information about the community, such as the demographics of the community  
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US Department of Commerce 12 leading indicators to measure future economic activity   show
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Turn-key project   show
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Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program   show
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show determines the sales capacity of a market area and if the introduction of a new business will generate additional customers.  
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albedo   show
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Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)   show
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show due to cuts in federal aid programs. The AFDC program was replaced with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. This program helps only a portion of the families that AFDC reached. The amount paid to persons receiving Supplemental Security Income (SS  
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SARAR: Self-esteem, Associative strength, Resourcefulness, Action planning, and Responsibility   show
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show results in negotiating development agreements that tie increased densities to community amenity contributions. This is used in Vancouver and Santa Monica.  
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show a business-backed civic organization promoting healthy regional growth.  
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show providing less mobility and a moderate amount of land access, distributing travel to smaller areas, while interconnecting the major roads  
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show providing direct access to the adjacent land and access to the higher classified roads  
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Level of service A   show
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Level of service B   show
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show Stable flow or at or near free-flow operations. Ability to maneuver through lanes is noticeably restricted and lane changes require more driver awareness. Minimum vehicle spacing is about 220 ft(67m) or 11 car lengths  
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Level of service D   show
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show Unstable flow or operations at capacity. Flow becomes irregular and speed varies rapidly because there are virtually no usable gaps to maneuver in the traffic stream and speeds rarely reach the posted limit.  
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Level of service F   show
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The Land and Water Conservation Fund (1964)   show
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show A deep lake with a low supply of nutrients and low supply of organic matter  
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show 25  
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show up to 3  
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Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (1953)   show
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About __ percent of the electricity used in the country goes towards heating, cooling, and lighting buildings.   show
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General Services Administration (GSA)   show
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Tokenism   show
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show Less than 20%  
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examples of regions that provide regional parks, regional transit, and regional transportation infrastructure.   show
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show aims to make findings from basic science useful for practical applications that enhance human health and well-being  
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show Having the best possible team  
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show can be used to retrieve soil samples and then examined for the soil profiles.  
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show I. Primary Recharge Area II. Secondary Recharge Area III. Tertiary Recharge Area  
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Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area   show
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Real property   show
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show the market value of all the products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the citizens of a country - all final goods and services produced in a country in one year (gross domestic product) plus income that residents have r  
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show defines production based on the geographical location of production, GNP allocates production based on location of ownership  
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The Freedom of Information Act   show
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show used to project the number of jobs created, but can also be used to project job loss. If an industry had a multiplier 1.5 then if 100 jobs were lost directly in the industry another 50 would be lost in the rest of the economy.  
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show I. National Environmental Policy Act II. Clean Air Act III. Clean Water Act IV. Farm Bill Conservation  
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show The steps in the Strategic Planning process include 1) Conducting a needs assessment 2) Identifying core values 3) Creating a mission Statement 4) Identify fundamental tenets 5) Undertake a SWOT analysis 6) Assign strategic priorities  
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