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Exam 5 Missed Qs Flashcards

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US Bureau of Reclamation

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Federal agency that oversees irrigation, water supply, and hydroelectric power

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Silt Fence

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Decreases sedimentation in runoff by retaining soil. Common in construction

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Streambank Stabilization

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Protects streams and channels to reduce erosion. Can be bioengineered or structural

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Oil/Particle Separators

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Designed to remove trash and debris from runoff

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5
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Difference between COG and Regional Council

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None. They are functionally the same

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New Regionalism

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• focuses on specific territories and spatial planning;
• tries to address problems created by the growth
and fragmentation of postmodern metropolitan
regions;
• takes a more holistic approach to planning that
often integrates planning specialties such as
transportation and land use as well as environmental, economic, and equity goals;
• emphasizes physical planning, urban design, and
sense of place as well as social and economic
planning; and
• often adopts a normative or activist stance

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Morrill Act of 1862

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Authorized proceeds from sale of land to be used for colleges

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National Education Act of 1867

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Created Department of Education to improve school effectiveness

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Smith-Lerer Act of 1914

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Extended services to land-grant universities

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Percent of owner-occupied homes in USA

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65%

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Program Monitoring System

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Documents progress, collects feedback, and allows for plan revisions as needed

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Town Hall Meeting

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Useful to identify key issues to start a project

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13
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Public Hearing

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Useful at end of the project

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14
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Open House

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Useful to do partway through a project to show progress and gain feedback

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15
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FOIA exemptions

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Personal privacy, national security, importance in ongoing law enforcement case, trade secrets, internal personnel rules, supervision of financial institutions, and geological info on wells

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Is an unrelated roommate subject to ethics rules on conflicts of interest?

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Yes. Written permission to work on their projects is still required

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17
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Adequate Sample Size for Interviews

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1%. Interviews are time consuming and can have a smaller sample size

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18
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Estimated number of homeless people in USA

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580,466 (anything in mid 500k is plausible)

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When do owners receive compensation in condemnation proceedings

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After they pay taxing authorities their back taxes (note: this doesn’t happen with land banks)

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Incremental Planning

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Charles Lindblom and Harvey Perloff - Argues planners should work incrementally, one at a time, “muddling through”

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Radiant City

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Le Corbusier - Linear design in abstract shape of human body, high rise housing blocks in lines, and significant green space

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Nuisance Law

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Activity or use is considered a nuisance if intentional and unreasonable, causes interference in neighboring property brining down its value, and continuing in nature

23
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Assessors Office

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Estimates property values but DOES NOT collect taxes

24
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Ethics Code on Sexual Harrassment

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Does not site this specifically, however it is definitely prohibited based on other items such as deliberately wrongful acts and reflecting poorly on the profession

25
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Chi-Square

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Used to compare two contingency tables (crosstabs)

26
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ANOVA

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Used for 3 categorial and one quantitative variable, comparing 3 or more means

27
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Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949

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Created General Services Administration

28
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Land Ordinance of 1785

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Largest act of planning in US history. Rectangular survey for everything west of the Appalachians

29
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New Markets Tax Credit

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Spurs business development by providing tax incentives to investors for equity investments in community development entities in low-income communities

30
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Garden Cities and finance

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Farmland is purchased at an agricultural rate, a limited-dividend company was established, and the community owns land so the land values increase and pass the gains back to the community

31
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Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis

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Allows for weighting across series of values’ dimensions so decision makers can value things that they deem are more important

32
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Setback

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Minimum distance of a building from the road, water, etc. Note that this is not equivalent to a yard but can be a yard

33
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State Preemption

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Law that local government is limited by state laws

34
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Qualified Allocation Plan

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Technical name for LIHTC applications and awards

35
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Legitimate concerns to limit signage based on Metromedia

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Aesthetics and safety

36
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Normative Theory of Planning

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Andreas Faludi - Focuses on procedure of planning and the manner in which decisions are arrived at.

37
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How often are block level census estimates made

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Every 10 years

38
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Strongest basis for controlling signage

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Historical district

39
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Hoshin Kanri

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Method for ensuring that the strategic goals of a company drive progress and action at every level within that company

40
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Ethical Firewall

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Creates a wall between elected officials and line of staff who are charged with administering the regulations of an organization

41
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Pedestrian Pocket

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Idea from Calthorpe of mixed use development of less than 110 acres with a park in the center

42
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MAP-21

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Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act. Funding surface transportation programs at over $105 billion for fiscal years (FY) 2013 and 2014, MAP-21 is the first long-term highway authorization enacted since 2005.

43
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Lesser Known Awful Things done by Robert Moses

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Bridges were constructed to be too low for city buses to keep poor people out of the City

44
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Citizen Participation Starting Point

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If the project has not developed its goals yet, the broadest citizen participation strategy is always best

45
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Radioconcentric Net

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Ring road

46
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Relationship between 5th and 14th amendment cases

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5th Amendment cases are for takings and are often 14th Amendment cases for due process too. This does not work vice versa

47
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4 types of measurement data

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Nominal - Named, no order
Ordinal - Named, ordered, but not mathematical (ex.: satisfaction survey)
Interval - Ordinal with a calculation between answers. 0 is arbitrary. (ex.: temperature)
Ratio - Numeric, zero is not arbitrary

48
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Planning Cell

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Developed by Dr. Dienel. Allows citizens to learn about and assess multiple alternatives

49
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Can Ordinal data have a median?

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Yes, but not a necessarily a mean

50
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Two types of local governments

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General-Purpose and Single-Purpose, where Single-Purpose is a school district or fire district

51
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Impact Fee Basis

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A rational nexus for how development impacts things proportionally. For example, based on the projected number of trips if it’s related to traffic.

52
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How to Avoid Introducing Bias as a Facilitator

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Have attendees introduce all problem and solution ideas

53
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ADA Revisions

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2008 & 2010 to include Standards for Accessible Design

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