Plan Making and Implimentation

Question 1

gathers information about a population at a single point in time

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Cross Sectional survey

Question 2

gathers information about a population over the course of time

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longitudinal survey

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

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Delphi Method

Question 5

Ranking solutions as a group with discussion

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Nominal Group Technique

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

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Mediatior

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Urbanized Area

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Urban Cluster

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Metropolitan Statistical Area

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Micropolitan Statistical Area

Question 12

Order of census are designations

Answer 12

Census Tracts, Block Groups, Census Blocks

Question 13

Floor Area Ratio

Answer 13

gross floor area of a building to its ground area

Question 14

NEPA

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

Cost effectiveness analysis

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Selecting among competing projects when resources are limited.

Question 17

Tax Increment Financing

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

Question 18

Trend Extrapolation

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Projecting into the future what has happened in the past

Question 19

Allocation Methods

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

Question 20

Cohort Survival

Answer 20

Projection Method based off of births, deaths and net migration

Question 21

economic base multiplier

Answer 21

ratio between total and basic employment

Question 22

Location Quotient

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

National component (share)
Industry component (mix)
Regional component (shift)

Question 24

What does it mean if the regional shift is negative?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

z-score

Answer 27

(x-mean)/standard deviation

Question 28

t-test

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test on difference between means

Question 29

Chi-square test

Answer 29

difference between observed and expected

Question 30

Bivariate Analysis Correlation

Answer 30

linear association between two variables

Question 31

What is being estimated in regression analysis

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Difference between raster and vector

Answer 32

vector is points and polygons, raster is continuous spatial data

Question 33

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

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Geodesy

Question 34

approximation of earth surface as an ellipsoid to compute location

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Datum

Question 35

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

Answer 35

conformal, equal area, equidistant, true direction.

Question 36

Delphi Technique

Answer 36

Experts respond to questionnaire, discuss then take questionnaire again

Question 37

Oregon Model

Answer 37

Early use of community based visioning in the planning process.

Question 38

Regressive vs progressive taxes

Answer 38

Regressive takes a larger percentage of low income earners

Question 39

Community Benefits Agreements

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requirements on developer to allow for local benefits

Question 40

Difference between TIF and BID

Answer 40

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.

Question 41

What is zero based budgeting?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Difference between Fiscal Impact Analysis and Economic Impact Analysis

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Central Limit Theorem

Answer 43

Larger the Sample size, the more narrower the curve

Question 44

National forest land in US

Answer 44

190 million acres

Question 45

Land in federal indian reservations

Answer 45

56 million