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Plan Making and Implimentation Flashcards

1
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gathers information about a population at a single point in time

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Cross Sectional survey

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2
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gathers information about a population over the course of time

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longitudinal survey

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3
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an intensive collaborative effort that brings together citizens, stakeholders and staff to develop a detailed design plan for a specific plan

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design charrette

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4
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consensus decision making based off of questionnaires and discussions that lead to the convergence on a single solution

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Delphi Method

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5
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Ranking solutions as a group with discussion

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Nominal Group Technique

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6
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a person who does not have a direct stake in the outcome of a meeting to help groups that disagree work together to solve complex problems and come to a consensus

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Facilitator

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7
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a person who helps groups come to measurable, achievable and realistic solutions

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Mediatior

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8
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urban nucleus of 50,000 or more people. 1,000 people per square mile

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Urbanized Area

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at least 2,500 but less than 50,000 persons and a population density of 1,000 persons per square mile.

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Urban Cluster

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10
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includes at least one city with 50,000 or more inhabitants and a total metro population of at least 100,000 people

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Metropolitan Statistical Area

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11
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a population of more than 10,000 people and less than 50,000 people

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Micropolitan Statistical Area

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12
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Order of census are designations

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Census Tracts, Block Groups, Census Blocks

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13
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Floor Area Ratio

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gross floor area of a building to its ground area

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14
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NEPA

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1969 created the council on environmental quality and requires an Environmental Impact Statement where necessary

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15
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Environmental Impact Statement

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Introduction, Description of the affected environment, Range of Alternatives to the proposed action, Analysis of the environmental impacts of the possible alternatives

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16
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Cost effectiveness analysis

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Selecting among competing projects when resources are limited.

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17
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Tax Increment Financing

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Allows a designated area to have tax revenue increases used for capital improvements in that area.

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18
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Trend Extrapolation

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Projecting into the future what has happened in the past

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19
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Allocation Methods

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Ratio based methods that take down larger sets of data to apply to smaller areas

20
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Cohort Survival

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Projection Method based off of births, deaths and net migration

21
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economic base multiplier

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ratio between total and basic employment

22
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Location Quotient

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

23
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What are the different components involved in shift-share analysis?

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National component (share)
Industry component (mix)
Regional component (shift)
24
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What does it mean if the regional shift is negative?

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A negative regional shift happens when the growth in the local employment is less than the growth nationally

25
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What are the components of total production in input-output analysis?

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Total production is decomposed into intermediate production (production to make other products) and final demand.

26
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What is the transactions table in the input-output analysis?

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The transactions table shows the inter-industry flows, which sector buys from what other sector(s) and how much.

27
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z-score

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(x-mean)/standard deviation

28
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t-test

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test on difference between means

29
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Chi-square test

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difference between observed and expected

30
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Bivariate Analysis Correlation

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linear association between two variables

31
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What is being estimated in regression analysis

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The coefficients in a linear equation that relates the dependent variable to a number of explanatory variable

32
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Difference between raster and vector

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vector is points and polygons, raster is continuous spatial data

33
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The study of measuring and representing the earth and its gravitational field

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Geodesy

34
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approximation of earth surface as an ellipsoid to compute location

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Datum

35
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What are the four characteristics of geographic information that are affected by projections,

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conformal, equal area, equidistant, true direction.

36
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Delphi Technique

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Experts respond to questionnaire, discuss then take questionnaire again

37
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Oregon Model

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Early use of community based visioning in the planning process.

38
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Regressive vs progressive taxes

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Regressive takes a larger percentage of low income earners

39
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Community Benefits Agreements

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requirements on developer to allow for local benefits

40
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Difference between TIF and BID

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TIF is increase in tax revue resulting from redevelopment that is used to pay off bonds that are sold to finance the redevelopment vs a BID where Businesses tax themselves to pay for improvements in the area.

41
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What is zero based budgeting?

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Expenses have to be justified for each new period; each new budgeting cycle must start with a zero base.

42
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Difference between Fiscal Impact Analysis and Economic Impact Analysis

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FIA projects cash flow to the public sector, EIA focuses on the cash flow to the private sector.

43
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Central Limit Theorem

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Larger the Sample size, the more narrower the curve

44
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National forest land in US

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190 million acres

45
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Land in federal indian reservations

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56 million

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