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1
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-Suburban sprawl heated political issues for many municipalities.
- Growth can consume valuable land resources and destroy a replaceable natural treasures.
- Necessary to establish a formal statement of development and planning policy.

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Comprehensive plans.

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Outline a comprehensive strategy for growth.
Enumerate the two.

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-Preserving valuable land reserves.
-Foster optimum economic viability.

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____________address short term goals and explore future challenges.

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Comprehensive plans.

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Comprehensive plans are the plan may break down the city or country into planning zones and these are.

Enumerate also the common issues.

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Single family and multifamily units commercial and industrial space, open space, and whether these are over or under target projections.

Common issues include:
Existing and proposed housing transportation networks environmental conservation areas, public facilities (schools, fire and police stations, libraries, parks and recreation facilities, sewer and water services, bikeways, overall drainage consideration, economic development, target areas and objectives.)

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Some of the more extensive comprehensive plans provide design guidelines with incentives such as _________ between municipality and developer.

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cost sharing.

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Modern zoning is under what?

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Zoning ordinances.

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Classification of land use types that establishes a range of permissible development options for a piece of property.

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Modern zoning.

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Under zoning ordinances name of use classifications are___,____,___,___? (Mentioned the 9)

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Office
commercial
agricultural
residential
industrial
conservation
recreational
resort
historic preservation.

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Under zoning ordinances, it is a helpful in pinpointing appropriately sized parcels for an intended land use.

Also determining which parcels could be considered for a change of zoning to allow a different and more intense use.

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Zoning maps.

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Under zoning ordinances, each category includes (Mention the 5)

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-Minimum standards for layout
-setback from RROW
-allowable density
-parking spaces requirements,
-maximum building space, footage.

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It establishes regulations that govern how parcels of land are subdivided and developed. This may include the procedure for the transfer of property titles.

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Subdivision ordinances.

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Under subdivision ordinances, it requires the development of preliminary and final subdivision plats.

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Map

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The set of guidelines that must be adhered to in order to obtain a building permit.

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Site plan ordinances.

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Under site plan ordinances. It relates directly to the zoning ordinance in that it established the construction specifications, and these are.

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Parking spaces,
lot coverage,
storm water management areas,
drainage structure,
street and curb details,
landscape.

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Mention the different type of maps.

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Topographic maps.
planimetric maps.
tax maps,
sanitary sewer maps.
water map,

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This map at municipal surveyor’s office, shows contour, identify all major high points and low points as spot elevations and provide a basis for preliminary engineering and feasibility analysis.

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Topographic maps.

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This map provide accurate source of data without incurring a full scale physical survey.

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Topographic maps.

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Show the accurate placement of lot lines and physical features.

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Planimetric Maps.

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Can be obtained at the mapping Department of a city or municipality.

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Planimetric Maps.

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This map and provide an accurate representation of the physical objects in the landscape.

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Planimetric maps.

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This map can be used in conjunction with tax, zoning and topographic maps to provide initial impression of a site.

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Planimetric maps.

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This maps showed a lot boundaries and their approximate area.

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tax maps

23
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This map include the name of the owner and the estimated value of the property.

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tax maps

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This map obtained from the city accessor’s office.

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tax map

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This map serves as mean to verify information gleaned from planet metrics.

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tax map

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This map is necessary source of information when contemplating infrastructure requirements for proposed growth.

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Sanitary sewer maps.

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This map can be obtained at the city engineer’s office or public utilities department.

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Sanitary sewer map.

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This map usually the same scale as sanitary sewer. Also show the location and size of all water lines, valves and fire hydrants.

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water maps

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This map helped to determine the availability of water and cost of providing it to a site.

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water map

30
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In process of community design
Mentioned the three design team

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Landscape architect
civil engineer and;
architect.

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In process of community design
Mention the non design team.

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Environmental scientist
Land surveyor
attorney
economic analyst
real estate broker
banker
landowner
developer.

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In process of community design, it requires cooperation between.

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Designers
financial
economic
real estate
municipal authorities
community at large.

33
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In process of community design____________ is a politically charge issues for many burgeoning communities.

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Growth.

34
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What are the process of community design?

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  1. landowner - land for sale.
  2. land developer - Hires a firms specializing land planning
  3. market assessment - analysis and development
  4. site data - site collect detail information.
35
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What are under market assessment?

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-Needs
-demand
-trends
-economic factors with emphasis on the growth or decline
-essential for obtaining financing for project financing.

36
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Under analysis drawings, it is. existing and proposed development as well as physical and market conditions

should be organized in a manner that can be quickly and easily understood.

Serve as a critical tool in determining appropriate land uses and their locations.

Complementary, compatible and expandable land uses can be identifiable.

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Surrounding development assessment.

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Other analysis drawing. it identifies physical constraints and attributes of the site.

An inventory of all site features and regulatory constraints, (topography, geology, soils, climatic information, plant and animal life zoning)

deed restrictions, local ordinances, environmental impact.

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Existing condition maps.

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Under analysis drawings it assimilates all data gathered into a purely subjective document.

Subdivide. the site into a variety of zones.

Identifies inherent ambience of each zone.

Extremely valuable tool because it provides plausible justification for the location of specific uses in specific areas.

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Character analysis drawing.

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drawing analysis or analysis documents in the early stage of a project includes:

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Understanding constraints and opportunities- a clear picture of the site limitation and Opportunities.

Public meetings - these documents serve as informative materials during public meeting access relevant information in concise format.

Financing- convince financers to invest in the project.

Regulatory approval - essential for obtaining approval from Planning Commission Board of, and City Council, including any necessary zoning modification.

Public engagement - involving citizens early on help reduce future conflicts.

Media influencer - can amplify emotions and controversies surrounding a project, providing financial and other project necessity and benefits.

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In process of community design this phase is creative and problem solving phase.

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The design phase.

41
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In process of community design, this phase is information from the market assessment and the analysis document is put to test.

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The design phase.

42
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What are the two types of concept ideation?

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Goals and needs.

43
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In the process, community design This phase is developing and the refining alternative approaches or solution.

Optimum solutions will probably be the best marriage of the market driven goals of the program and desires of the community.

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The design phase.

44
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In the process of community design this alternative solutions can be informed of.

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-Sketches
-diagram showing different land use types.

45
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The placement of the land use should aim to work well with _____

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Neighboring properties.

46
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________ needs to assess the impact of option on various aspects, including the community, the environment and the nearby neighborhoods.

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Planners

47
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What are the steps of the charette process?

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  • Formal presentation of the project (Issues to address)
  • individual meetings with key community members (Question)
  • feedback meetings, (Consider opinion/concept)
  • formulation of concept. (Merging)
48
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Planning 2 (4 decks)

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