Planning Prep Flashcards
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CCA
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Community Character Act
introduced by Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, incentive to help states and localities initiate and implement smart growth planning strategies, federal government can be a partner with localities in building great places without intrusive federal mandates.
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
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a geographic entity defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget for the use by federal statistical agencies that are based on the concept of a core area with a large population nucleus
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George Norris
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1933 TVA
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State Standard Enabling Zoning Act
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led by Herbert Hoover
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What opened in 1914 that opened the world to commerce.
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Panama Canal
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Oldest type of legal description - uses POB (point of beginning) and has monuments, like a tree uses more or less
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Metes and Bounds
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Rectangular survey
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US divided into grid 1785
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Recorded Plat
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like lot and block ( currently used)
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Lot and Block
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like recorded plat suburbs and densely populated areas
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Chicago Metropolis 2020
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small professional staff led by Commercial Club Civic Committee wanted to create new regional plan for city/suburbs growth conflicts
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Marsh
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type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation.
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Programmable thermostat can save you
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20% on heating costs
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UDAG - Urban Development Action Grant Program (1977)
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promote public private partnerships - 2) a goal was to facilitate public-private partnerships in the targeted redevelopment and economic recovery of urban areas
3) a goal was for leveraging, intergovernmental coordination and the placement of responsibility for proposals with local governments
4)it’s projects offer fertile venues for the investigation of relations between the public and private sector
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Variance
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average of the sum of squared deviations from the mean - dispersion around the mean
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Housing Act 1937
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linked slum clearance to public housing
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Regression
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The statistical technique which provides an estimate of one variable based on the linear function of another can be defined as:
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GAM Goals Achievement Matrix
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A method of reviewing project alternatives by weighing alternatives according to the citizen group’s goals
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urban collectors are
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providing both traffic circulation and land access with all land uses by collecting and distributing traffic to these geographic areas
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PSD Standards - Prevention of Significant Deterioration
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prevent deterioration of high quality airsheds
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First US skyscraper in 1885 - Home Life Insurance Building
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Chicago IL
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Jean Gottmann used what term to describe the extended urban region that contained several metro areas that appeared to form a single agglomeration?
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Northeast megalopolis dude
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What was completed in 1936 that sustains the population and much of the activities in Nevada, California, and Arizona?
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Hoover Dam
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What 1992 US Supreme Court case, said that a taking occurs in two circumstances?
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Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Council
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First law to protect archeological sites
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Antiquities Act 1906
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principle arterial
serving longer trips, carrying the highest traffic volumes, and a large percentage of the VMT on a minimum amount of mileage while providing minimal land access.
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MWD
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
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On average, what percentage will be saved of your cooling costs by closing off air conditioning vents in an unoccupied room?
5-10%
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PPBS
Planning Programming and Budgeting System - something with DOD, focused on planning not budgeting?
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What is the name given to the children of the baby boomers between 1979-1995?
Echo boom
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Oligotrophic lakes can be described as which of the following?
deep lakes that have a low supply of nutrients and thus contain little organic matter
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Housing Act of 1954
focused on slum prevention and renewal - Section 701, support for smaller cities
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New York State Tenement House Law 1901
outlawed dumbbell tenements - Lawrence Veiller
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Net land area
Gross net area
Entire site- minus undevelopable land
Everything
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Ebeneezer Howard wrote __
"Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"
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Ian McHarg wrote ____
Design with Nature
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Edward Bellamy wrote ____
Looking backward (about utopia)
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Hoshin Planning
7 step strategic planning process
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What is the name given to those born between 1965 and 1980?
Gen X
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Indian Reorganization Act
still used to today, gives tribes their own powers, constitution etc (1934)
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Baby boomers
After WW2, 1946-1964
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Robert Weaver
HUD's first secretary
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Home are now x% bigger
50%!
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How many commercial cell towers?
100k
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James Rouse
designed Columbia Maryland successful town after WW2
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Council of Government movement began in
Detroit
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UDAG
Urban development action grant complements CDBG
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normal distribution peak is mean, median, and mode
oops
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Cash Out Free Parking
A program offering commuters the cash equivalent of subsidized parking provided they use another means of transportation.
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LA County 1922
First regional planning commission
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Riparian Rights
Entitlement of a land owner to certain uses of water on or bordering his property, including the right to prevent diversion of upstream waters.
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Office space parking factor
Industrial
Office and medical centers
Restaurant
.5 to 3 spaces per 1000 square feet of gross land area
.67 to 3.5 spaces per 1000 square meters
.1 - .75 spaces per employee
5-25 spaces
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Listening to the City
A New York public meeting in 2002 with about 5000 New Yorkers
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Green power
electricity produced by sources that are less harmful to the environment than fossil fuels
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North Dakota has
slowest population gain dun dun
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Strategic plans are
focused, address resources, and are usually open in their creation
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TIP
Transportation Improvement Program
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Ambient
term related to air and water pollution
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Gen X
1965-1980
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Consistency Requirement
rezonings match comprehensive plan, text and map conformance standards
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Groundwater
the supply of freshwater under the earth's surface in an aquifer or soil that forms the natural reservoir
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MBO
Management by Objectives Peter Drucker
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Township square
36 square miles
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a section
one square mile
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St Lawrence Sea Way
Canada USA project opened in 1959
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Density in American
79.6 people per square mile
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Financing of improvements from current revenue
pay as you go - current revenue
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Endangered Species Act
1973
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Clean Air Act 1970 amended in
1990
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Comprehensive Plan
This can be described as a document that provides a community with a guide for how development can best occur in the present and into the future. 20 years
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1990s Growth in suburban life and obesity
the South, the midwest and northeast grew the slowest
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Lowering thermostat by 1 degree
saves 1-3% heating bill
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Saul Alinksky
Who is involved with an organizational approach that involves organizations that are created when an invitation is sent out by the neighborhood or organization and a paid organizer is then sent to the neighborhood? Hiring a professional organizer.
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Aaron Wildavsky
Who is credited with the following quote, "a budget...may be characterized as a series of goals with price tags attached."?
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Performance Zoning
regulates the character of the use instead of simply just regulating the use itself
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Tributary
Water, surface or underground, which contributes its water in small quantities to another larger stream
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Node
This can be described as a mixed use area, that increases pedestrian trips and is close to public spaces
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NAFTA
North American Fair Trade Agreement (1994) - US, Mexico, Canada
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Aquifer
(Water + Rock) yayy an underground bed or stratum of earth, gravel or porous stone that contains water
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Homer Hoyt
Sector Theory
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Green E
voluntary labeling program in California
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DINKS
double income no kids couples
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2000 Census
race + Hispanic included/ where do you get your water taken out
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Minimum R rating for exterior walls insulation
R-11- R-28
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Mariemont Ohio
In 1923, construction began on what planned community, which would foreshadow the New Urbanism movement? Made by Mary Emery
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Subdivisions
related to platting and mapping includes land recordation, dedication requirements, impact fess, and growth management controls
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LOS D
unstable flow, fluctuating speeds, and long delay - E is the same but with near capacity, F - has stoppages
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Census tract
homogeneous units with respect to population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions at the time of establishment, census tracts average about 4,000 inhabitants
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How many acres of agricultural land lost to development every year?
2.2 million acres
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Radburn, New Jersey
Clarence Stein and Henry Wright 1920s, related to Greenbelt towns
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The Intelligence of Democracy
Charles Lindblom
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Snout house
home with garage as predominant feature
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Non point source pollution
What type of pollutants are those related to overland run-off of rainwater and has multiple entry points into a water body?
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What year did the American Society of Planning Officials and the American Institute of Planners merge to become the American Planning Association?
1978
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Metropolitan Area
a city plus it's adjacent communities to which it is linked economically
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Parking space size
8-9 ft by 18-20 ft
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The Census Survey of Construction shows that the average new home changed from 1,500 square feet in 1970, to _______ square feet in 2000.
2266
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2000
President Clinton created eight new national monuments this year
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FIshbowl planning
This is a technique that involves citizens addressing citizens regarding a proposal through a workshop format.
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ISTEA - Intermodal Surface Transportation Effiicency Act
1991
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Census block
According to the US Census, what can be described as the smallest geographic unit for which the Census Bureau tabulates 100-percent data?
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line function
Relating to a public planning agency, which of the following deals primarily with direct services? "DIRECTly advances organization in its core work" - Works with public
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staff function
Support functions - provision of general services backs up agency not facing - mayor
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Minor arterials
Connect major arterials basically, interconnecting the principal arterials while providing less mobility and a moderate amount of land access, distributing travel to smaller areas?
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USA adults spend about
72 minutes a day driving
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Zero Discharge Standards
Stormwater runoff that is not any greater after the development of the site than before the site was actually developed
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First elevator installed in
1850s NYC
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H axis
Front loading washing machine in Europe more eco friendly
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Homestead Act 1862
What Act opened the lands of the Public Domain to settlers for five years of residence and for a nominal fee?
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2002 3 year process report by Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC)
Common Ground
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Oakland 10K Initiative
Adding 10,000 residents to the downtown area
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Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co.
Taking case about diverting water
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Project Management is
focused on evaluating and ranking outputs
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First National Conference on Planning
1909
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1949 Housing Act
First comprehensive housing act in US, Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill, 800k residential units
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Citizen Advisory Committee
a group that is presumed to represent the attitudes and ideas of the local groups
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Marsh
a type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation
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Lagoon
a shallow pond where sunlight, bacterial action, and oxygen work to purify wastewater
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According to the US Census, what can be described as a small, relatively permanent statistical subdivision of a county that is delineated by a local committee of census data users?
Census Tract
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Coastal Zone Management Act
1972
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Civil Rights Act
1964
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A "State of the Environment Report" is one of the key products of which of the following?
Environmental Indicators Initiative
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The Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA)
(1978) a federal law that requires utilities to buy power from eligible cogeneration sources, small hydro or waste-fueled facilities, under contracts at an avoided cost rate
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Roosevelt
= Resettlement Administration (1935) MOW not Illinois
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Subdivision regulation
includes impact fees, growth management controls, and land recordation
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Smart Decline
leaving behind assumptions of growth and finding alternatives to it
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first Earth Day
April 22 1970
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Cartway
the portion of the street right-of-way that is traveled
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Sierra Club founded
1892
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FEMA (1979)
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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NEPA (1969)
National Environmental Policy Act
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Americans with Disabilities Act
1990 by Bush
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2000 Census Long Form collected
1)marital status
2)labor force status (current)
3)number of bedrooms
4)value of home
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This person prepared "The Regional Survey (Plan) of New York and Its Environs", which was released in 1929.
Thomas Adams
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Ambient Standards
standards for air and water quality relating to the quality of the receiving environment that is used to judge the overall improvements in the environmental quality
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How many federally recognized tribes are there?
562
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Buffalo Commons
What is the name of the proposal that involves tearing down the farm fences in the Great Plains and replanting native grass and restore the buffalo?
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Indicators Initiative
This EPA document will identify where additional research, data quality improvements, and information are needed.
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SDREO
San Diego Regional Energy Office
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2000 Short Form Census
1)tenure
2)name
3)sex
4)age
5)relationship to householder
6)Hispanic origin
7)race
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In planning and budgeting systems, which can be described as having its focus on evaluating and ranking outputs by program?
Project management
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Federal Highway Act of 1956
This Act funded the long-recognized need for a national highway system and resulted in the development and efficiency of the national economy...
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The 1949 Housing Act was ...
A) the first comprehensive housing legislation
B) designed to have a goal to construct 800,000 residential units
C) known as the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill
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General Obligation Bonds
the taxing power of the jurisdiction pledged to pay the interest upon, and retire the debt
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1954
Council of Governments movement in Detroit
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1972
Coastal Zone Management Act and Federal Water Pollution Control Act passed
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Transportation Improvement Plan
a staged, three to five year prioritized program of transportation projects that cover a metropolitan planning area which is consistent with the metropolitan transportation plan
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Aaron Wildansky
Budget quote?
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Sealing leaks off in ducts can save
20% heating costs
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In a more efficient home, one could find the following types of lighting
Sodium, Halogen, Compact Fluorescent
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Austin v. Older
Which of the following law cases dealt with the issue of a nonconforming use that was built the day before the City’s zoning ordinance was put into place?
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Effluent standards
discharge into air and watersheds
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New Regionalism
Key characteristics of this approach include 1) a focus on specific territories and spatial planning; 2) a response to the problems of a metropolitan region; 3) integrating environmental, equity and economic goals; 4) emphasis on urban design; and, 5) a more activist stance by the planners.
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First metropolitan plan
1909 Chicago Plan
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ADA
1990
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