Land Use

Question 1

Land Use Color: Industry

Answer 1

Purple

Question 2

Land Use Color: Low Density Housing

Answer 2

Yellow

Question 3

Land Use Color: High Density Housing

Answer 3

Brown

Question 4

Land Use Color: Retail, Commercial

Answer 4

Red

Question 5

Land Use Color: Institutional, Public

Answer 5

Blue

Question 6

Land Use Color: Recreation, Natural Resources

Answer 6

Green

Question 7

Land Use Color: Utilities

Answer 7

Grey

Question 8

One map system

Answer 8

When the current and future land use maps have been combined and together function as both the master plan map and the regulatory zoning map

Question 9

Land classification map

Answer 9

Divides a planning jurisdiction into different classes of land, more general than a land use plan

Question 10

Orthophoto

Answer 10

an aerial photo that has been rectified and can be used to measure distance or overlay on maps

Question 11

FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps

Answer 11

Show the boundaries of land that has at least a 1% chance of flooding in any given year

Question 12

1 acre in square feet

Answer 12

43,560 square feet

Question 13

1 hectare in acres

Answer 13

2.471 acres

Question 14

1 mile in feet

Answer 14

5,280 feet

Question 15

1 square mile in acres

Answer 15

640 acres

Question 16

FAR

Answer 16

the ratio of permitted floor area of a building in relation to the size of the lot

Question 17

What is the FAR of a 12,000 sf building on a 1200 sf lot

Answer 17

10

Question 18

Where/when was the first zoning ordinance

Answer 18

NYC 1916, drafted by Edward Bassett

Question 19

First urban growth boundary?

Answer 19

1958, Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky

Question 20

What is the Regional Survey of New York and its Environs and when was it published?

Answer 20

1928, viewed land use as a function of accessibility

Question 21

Oregon Land Use Act

Answer 21

1973, created a state-wide planning system and required identification of urban growth boundaries separating urban from rural areas

Question 22

Euclidian zoning

Answer 22

Typical approach to regulating land use; specifies exactly what uses will be allowed, does not allow for mix of uses

Question 23

Alfred Bettman

Answer 23

Defended zoning before supreme court in Euclid v. Ambler Realty

Question 24

Cumulative zoning

Answer 24

An older, hierarchical approach in which less intensive uses such as residences are allowed in areas of more intensive use, such as commercial districts

Question 25

Noncumulative zoning

Answer 25

Allows only the sated use and not more restrictive (less intensive) uses

Question 26

Form-based zoning

Answer 26

Regulates the size, form, appearance, and placement of building rather than the use of the land and the density of development

Question 27

Transect zoning

Answer 27

Describes development as a continuum of six zones from rural to urban and identifies standards for each

Question 28

Performance zoning

Answer 28

Focuses on the intensity of development that is acceptable and its impact on the environment, doesn't deal with use

Question 29

Subdivision regulations

Answer 29

used to divide land into parcels and regulate the location and design of supporting infrastructure

Question 30

downzoning

Answer 30

a confusing term because one thinks its rezoning that decreases the intensity of development, but it can sometimes mean the opposite as well

Question 31

conditional use

Answer 31

not allowed by right but permitted due to specific conditions

Question 32

variance

Answer 32

the permitting of activities whose denial would cause a hardship associated with the parcel

Question 33

ETJ

Answer 33

Extraterritorial jurisdiction - when a state or municipality is allowed to impose zoning outside its boundaries, ensuring that development beyond the boundaries is compatible

Question 34

Floating zone

Answer 34

When a community defines a use that is encouraged but is not assigned to a particular parcel - when a parcel is selected the regulations are affixed to the parcel

Question 35

overlay zoning

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to lay a special zone on top of existing zoning in order to apply additional requirements to that area

Question 36

cluster zoning

Answer 36

allows buildings to be built at higher density in one area of the parcel to protect open space elsewhere

Question 37

PUD

Answer 37

large scale mixed use developments or high density residential developments, allow for flexibility in the siting of buildings and the implementation of development standards

Question 38

exaction

Answer 38

cost levied on developer as a condition for receiving permission to develop, should reflect the cost that a development is projected to impose on a community

Question 39

impact fee

Answer 39

a type of exaction that is directly related to impact of new development - is most often used to fund capital facilities

Question 40

easement

Answer 40

used to secure a portion of rights associated with a parcel without securing ownership

Question 41

grayfield development

Answer 41

development on a vacant urban or suburban site that was formerly developed as, for example, a strip mall

Question 42

locally undesirable land use

Answer 42

LULU - a land use that is necessary but considered objectionable

Question 43

Takings

Answer 43

prohibited by 5th amendment without paying just compensation and by 14th amendment without due process of the law

Question 44

Ripeness doctrine

Answer 44

States that a claim in ready for judicial review only after a property owner has sought all possible relief through, for example, a variance

Question 45

Ernest Burgess

Answer 45

Proposed in 1925 that urban areas grew outward as a series of concentric rings

Question 46

Homer Hoyt

Answer 46

proposed in 1939 the idea that urban areas developed by sections that form along community and transportation routes

Question 47

Harris and Ullman

Answer 47

Proposed in 1945 that urban areas grow by progressive integration of a number of separate nuclei, which become specialized and differentiated

Question 48

Alonso

Answer 48

in 1960, proposed that the cost of land, the intensity of development of land, the concentration of the population and the number of place of employment each declines as distance from the BCD increases

Question 49

Logan and Molotch

Answer 49

Proposed in 1987 that urban development is actually directed by those elite members of the community who control the resources and have connections.