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AICP Exam prep - Emily > Plan Making And Implementation > Flashcards

Plan Making And Implementation Flashcards

1
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What is the total acreage of land in federal Indian reservations?

A 
56 million acres
326 Indian land areas
Largest is Navajo Nation 16 million acres
Smallest is Pit Rover 1.32 acres
Many less than 1,000 acres
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2
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What is a township square?

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6 by 6 Mile area
Contains 36 square miles
Contains 36 sections of 1 square mile each

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3
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How many acres in one square mile?

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640 acres

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4
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How many square feet in an acre?

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43,560 square feet

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5
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How many acres in a hectare?

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2.47

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6
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Metes and Bounds

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Oldest type of legal description
Begin at the intersection, then east 200’ along Jefferson
“More or less”
Location of monuments, natural and artificial landmarks

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7
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What is required for legal description of real estate?

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Allows surveyor to locate the property including exact boundaries

Street address is not sufficient

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8
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Lot and block

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Also called a recorded plat

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9
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Ordinance of 1785

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Rectangular land survey of the west

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10
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Dashed line on a subdivision map

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Buildable area as defined by setbacks

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11
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Open Space public engagement technique

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Allows people to propose topics to discuss and those who are interested choose to participate in that dialogue. Prepare summaries to share with entire group.

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12
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Probability an event is about to happen

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1
Probabilities range from 0-1
0 is impossible

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13
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Cost revenue analysis

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Full cost of delivering a service or group of services.

Compare operating costs and tax yields

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14
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Megalopolis

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10 million or more

John Gottmann

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15
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Consensus Conference

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Inform a panel of citizens about a complex technological or scientific issue

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16
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T test

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Compare means of sample averages based on population

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17
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ANOVA

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Analysis of variance - test equality of means between two groups

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18
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Chi Square test

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Measure of fit

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19
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Location quotient

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Relative share of the sector in the region compared to the relative share in the nation

Greater than 1 export
Less than 1 import

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20
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Input output

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Model of an economy 
Determines economic output of a region
Can determine employment affect of particular project on the economy 
Transactions, direct requirements, total requirement s
Assumes no economies of scale
Tech and labor are static 
Consumption of inputs is constant 
No National imports or exports
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21
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4 characteristics of projections

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Shape - conformal
Area - equal area
Distance - equidistant
Direction - true direction

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22
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Oregon model

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1st place using community visioning

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23
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4 map classifications

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Equal interval - like a histogram
Quantile - each bin has same number
Natural breaks or jenks
Unique value

24
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Tax increment financing

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Designated area to have a tax revenue increased used for capital investment

25
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Floating zone

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Not necessarily included on the map; conditions have to be met

26
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Form based code

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Form of built environment; can deal with use but not the main driver

Regulations, not guidelines

Community vision translated to form

Water conservation and agriculture preservation make little difference

27
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Transect

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Type of form based code

Rural to urban in 6 zones plus one special purpose zone

Smart code is a type of transect code - Miami

28
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How can you deal with zoning non conformities?

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1) redone to minimize non conformities
2) sanction benign non conformities
3) phase out detrimental non conformities

29
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Bivariate regression - how many variables used to predict?

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1 x variable

30
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What is the economic base multiplier

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Total employment / basic employment.

A multiplier of 4 says that 4 total jobs are created for every additional basic job

31
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Shift share

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Interprets changes in an industry’s local employment over a period of years in terms of:

  1. National share
  2. Industry mix
  3. Local shift
32
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Input output

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Useful for understanding linkages between different industries especially those upstream and downstream from a target industry

33
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Industrial development / special purpose bond

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Bond on behalf of a private company for community investment

34
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Tiebout hypothesis

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Individuals will vote with their feet. Public good preferences.

35
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4 types of health impact assessment

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1 rapid - a few weeks
2 desktop
3 intermediate - do not collect new data
4 comprehensive - can take over a year

36
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Health status is determined by these four things

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1 genetics (5%)
2 health care (10%)
3 behavior (30%)
4 social conditions (55%)

37
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Rational ignorance

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Odds of my vote making a difference are very low

38
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Voting with feet

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Works with large federal system
People can sort themselves with similar tastes for local or Territorials goods
Intergovernmental competition

39
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Capitalization

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Local benefits capitalized in local land prices

40
Q

How many Americans lived in some type of community association in 2012

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63 million

41
Q

How many BIDs in United States

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700

42
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What are CC&R

A

Covenants conditions and restrictions

43
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What is rent seeking

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Payoffs to special interests

44
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All government is greater than what percent of GDP

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35%

State and local from own revenues is 10%

45
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Several types of grants

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Block grants vs categorial - gives recipient flexibility vs restricted to specific projects or function

Fórmula vs competitive - awarded by formula or competition

46
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What are homevoter cities

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A city that is mainly devoted to the protection of property values.

Homeowners see local governance as a way to protect home values. Usually their largest financial asset

47
Q

What are tools to slow gentrification

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More housing options for those crowded out

Look at development restriction we impose. Yes

48
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What are components of form based codes

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The regulating plan
Building form standards - position of buildings on lot And setbacks
Public realm - describes spaces between buildings (frontage types and street types) design instructions

Optional: street and block standards and frontage and building types

49
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Cities with form based codes

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Miami 
Beaufort SC
Cincinnati 
Tehachapi CA
Santa Ana CA
50
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Goals achievement matrix

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System for prioritizing projects

51
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Horizontal equity vs vertical equity

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Horizontal - people in the same circumstances should be treated the same

Vertical - people on higher incomes should take on greater share of responsibility for paying for public services. Regressive proportional and progressive taxes are vertical equity

52
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Role of planning commission

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Appointed by elected officials
Recommending body
Public hearings and fact finding for: comp plan, zoning text and map amendments, conditional use permits

53
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Role of zoning board of appeals

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Appointed by city council 
Quasi judicial
Public hearings and fact finding for:
Appeals of administrative decisions 
Variances 
Special exceptions
54
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Design review board

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Appointed by city council
Advisory role - recommendations to planning commission
Rules on consistency of plan with design guidelines
May or may not include public comment

55
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Central limit theorem

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When independent variables are summed up, tends toward normal distribution, even if original variables are not normally distributed

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