APA Policy Guides

Question 1

Farmland preservation techniques

Answer 1

Right to farm laws
Limiting infrastructure
Preventing scattered development to maintain critical mass of farmland
Agricultural zoning
Preferential taxation
TDR
Urban grow high boundaries / service areas

Question 2

Why is it difficult to enforce billboard ordinances along highly visible transportation routes

Answer 2

Special interest provision in intermodal surface transportation efficiency act, successor to the federal highway beautification act

Question 3

1978 amendment to highway beautification act

Answer 3

Local governments must pay billboard owners before a non confirming billboard can be removed

Question 4

Group home

Answer 4

Dwelling unit occupied by a single housekeeping unit in family like environment of 12-15 people with disabilities plus support staff.

Relatively permanent

Question 5

Halfway house

Answer 5

Temporary

Support in order to readjust to living outside an institution

Weeks or months

10-15 residents

Resemble multi family housing but work best in single family neighborhoods

Question 6

Fair housing amendments act of 1988

Answer 6

Reasonable accommodation must be made in a zoning ordinance to give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to enjoy a dwelling and community residences should be allowed as of right in residential districts

Question 7

What percentage of new homes sold were factory built in 1998

Answer 7

One third

Question 8

Constraints of manufactured housing

Answer 8

Historic or conservation areas

Land lease communities may provide substandard living environment

Many jurisdictions have not revised planning techniques to incorporate opportunities for manufactured housing

Another barrier - taxed at lower rate of personal property rather than real property

Question 9

Manufactured home improvement act of 2000

Answer 9

Enforcement of federal standards

Installation standards

Affordable finance and homeowner protection

Encourage innovative and cost effective construction techniques

Question 10

Threats to historic resources

Answer 10

Diminished funding 
Transportation projects 
Private property rights movement
Building facades only 
Ignorance of archaeological resources

Question 11

Historic preservation opportunities

Answer 11

Adaptive reuse

Environmental laws and programs

Prevention tools

Tax benefits

TDR

Clustering and PUD

Question 12

Intermodal surface transportation efficiency act istea 1991

Answer 12

Strengthened the role of comprehensive planning

Declared interstate highway system complete

Shifted attention from new construction towards management operations and maintenance

Focused on seamless intermodal system

Question 13

Regional blueprint planning

Answer 13

Effective means of looking at regions in a comprehensive manner in the context of land use, environment al, economic, and social factors

Question 14

Transportation sector is responsible for what percentage of GHG emissions

Answer 14

One third

Question 15

Meters should be set at price needed to achieve -% occupancy

Answer 15

85%

Question 16

Percent of water that is fresh

Answer 16

.5%

.48% is ground water

Question 17

5 primary wetlands systems

Answer 17

Marine 
Estuarine
Riverine
Lacustrine (lakes and ponds)
Palustrine (swamps and marshes)

50% wetlands have been lost

Question 18

Percent of US electricity that comes from coal

Answer 18

50%

Question 19

Transitionally homeless

Answer 19

Move quickly through the homeless assistance system once they access it.

Question 20

Continuum of Care planning process

Answer 20

Mandated by HUD as a prerequisite on to receipt of funds