Chapter 5 - Location And Transportation

Question 0

What is a bicycle network?

Answer 0

A path or series of paths in rural, urban, or sub urban areas that are clearly marked for bicycle travel.

Question 1

What is the American Council for an Energy Efficient a Economy (ACEEE)?

Answer 1

A non profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1980 whose mission is to advance energy efficiency as a fast, cheap, and effective means of meeting energy challenges.

Question 2

What is a brownfield?

Answer 2

A property on which redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or possible presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.

Question 3

What is buildable land?

Answer 3

The portion of a site where construction can occur, including land voluntarily set aside and not constructed on.

Question 4

What is community connectivity?

Answer 4

The amount of connection between a site and the surrounding community, measured by proximity of the site to homes, schools, parks, stores, restaurants, medical facilities, and other services and amenities.

Question 5

What is density?

Answer 5

A measure of the total building floor area or dwelling units on a parcel of land relative to the buildable land of that parcel.

Question 6

What is development density?

Answer 6

The total square footage of all buildings within a particular area measured in square feet per acre (square meter per hectare).

Question 7

What is diverse use?

Answer 7

A distinct, officially recognized business, nonprofit, civic, religious or governmental organization, or dwelling units (residential use) or offices (commercial office use). It has a stationary postal address and is publicly available.

Question 8

What is a floodplain?

Answer 8

Land that is likely to be flooded by a storm of a given size (such as a 100 year storm).

Question 9

What is floor area ratio (FAR)?

Answer 9

The density of nonresidential land use, exclusive of structured parking, measured as the total non residential building floor area divided by the total buildable land area available for non residential structures.

Question 10

What is considered the footprint?

Answer 10

The area of ground that the building sits upon as defined by its perimeter.

Question 11

What is global warming?

Answer 11

The in crease in temperature of the earths atmosphere due primarily to the greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels such as wood, coal, natural gas, and oil.

Question 12

What is a greenfield?

Answer 12

A site that has never been built on or developed for human use.

Question 13

What are green house gases?

Answer 13

Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. The most abundant of the greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, is released through the burning of fossil fails and the manufacturing of cement.

Question 14

What are green vehicles?

Answer 14

Vehicles that provide less harmful impacts to the environment that conventionally fueled vehicles. Examples if green vehicles are hybrid electric vehicles, hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles, plug in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, compressed air vehicles, neat ethanol vehicles, natural gas vehicles, and clean diesel vehicles.

Question 15

What is a habitat?

Answer 15

A natural environment such as a field, stream, or forest that is home to one or more wildlife species and plants. The LEED rating systems aim to reduce the destruction. Of natural habitats during construction.

Question 16

What is infill development?

Answer 16

Building and developing in vacant areas of high density urban centers. Infill development can reduce traffic congestion, save open space, and create more livable communities.

Question 17

What is infrastructure?

Answer 17

Roads, electrical lines, sewer lines, phone lines, and other public services permanently installed on developed sites. Locating a project on a previously developed site is advantageous because the existing infrastructure saves costs and lowers the carbon foot ring of the project.

Question 18

What is pooled parking?

Answer 18

Parking spaces that are shared among two or more buildings.

Question 19

What is preferred parking?

Answer 19

Parking spaces at have the shortest walking distance to the main entrance of the project, exclusive of spaces designated for people with disabilities.

Question 20

What is a previously developed/disturbed site?

Answer 20

A site that once had buildings, roadways, and parking lots, or that was graded or otherwise altered by direct human activities.

Question 21

What is prime farmland?

Answer 21

Previously undeveloped land with soil suitable for cultivation. Avoiding development on prime farmland helps protect agricultural lands, which are needed for food production.

Question 22

What is redevelopment?

Answer 22

Reusing previously developed land.

Question 23

What is remediation?

Answer 23

The process of cleaning up a contaminated site by physical, chemical, or biological means. Remediation processes are typically applied to I contaminated soil or groundwater.

Question 24

What is the shortest path analysis?

Answer 24

A measurement of how far a pedestrian and bicyclist would travel from a point of origin to a destination, reflecting access to amenities, safety convenience, and obstructions to movement.

Question 25

What is smart growth?

Answer 25

An approach that protects open space and farmland by emphasizing development with houses jobs, and services near each other.

Question 26

What is total parking capacity?

Answer 26

The total amount of parking spaces for a site that includes new and existing surface parking spaces new and existing garage or multilevel parking spaces, and any off street parking spaces outside the project boundary that are available to the buildings users. Not included are on street parking spaces on public rights of way, parking spaces for fleet and inventory vehicles, and mortar bike or bicycle spaces.

Question 27

What is walkability?

Answer 27

A metric for how amenable an area is to walking.

Question 28

What is a water body?

Answer 28

The surface water of a stream, arroyo, river, canal, lake, estuary, bay, or ocean. It does not include irrigation ditches.

Question 29

What are wetlands?

Answer 29

Land areas saturated by water, such as swamps, marshes, and bogs. Wetlands provide habitats for fish and wildlife, feed downstream waters, trap floodwaters, remove pollution, and recharge ground water supplies.