Planning Prep Flashcards
CCA
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.
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
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
George Norris
1933 TVA
State Standard Enabling Zoning Act
led by Herbert Hoover
What opened in 1914 that opened the world to commerce.
Panama Canal
Oldest type of legal description - uses POB (point of beginning) and has monuments, like a tree uses more or less
Metes and Bounds
Rectangular survey
US divided into grid 1785
Recorded Plat
like lot and block ( currently used)
Lot and Block
like recorded plat suburbs and densely populated areas
Chicago Metropolis 2020
small professional staff led by Commercial Club Civic Committee wanted to create new regional plan for city/suburbs growth conflicts
Marsh
type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation.
Programmable thermostat can save you
20% on heating costs
UDAG - Urban Development Action Grant Program (1977)
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
Variance
average of the sum of squared deviations from the mean - dispersion around the mean
Housing Act 1937
linked slum clearance to public housing
Regression
The statistical technique which provides an estimate of one variable based on the linear function of another can be defined as:
GAM Goals Achievement Matrix
A method of reviewing project alternatives by weighing alternatives according to the citizen group’s goals
urban collectors are
providing both traffic circulation and land access with all land uses by collecting and distributing traffic to these geographic areas
PSD Standards - Prevention of Significant Deterioration
prevent deterioration of high quality airsheds
First US skyscraper in 1885 - Home Life Insurance Building
Chicago IL
Jean Gottmann used what term to describe the extended urban region that contained several metro areas that appeared to form a single agglomeration?
Northeast megalopolis dude
What was completed in 1936 that sustains the population and much of the activities in Nevada, California, and Arizona?
Hoover Dam
What 1992 US Supreme Court case, said that a taking occurs in two circumstances?
Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Council
First law to protect archeological sites
Antiquities Act 1906
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.
MWD
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
On average, what percentage will be saved of your cooling costs by closing off air conditioning vents in an unoccupied room?
5-10%
PPBS
Planning Programming and Budgeting System - something with DOD, focused on planning not budgeting?
What is the name given to the children of the baby boomers between 1979-1995?
Echo boom
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
Housing Act of 1954
focused on slum prevention and renewal - Section 701, support for smaller cities
New York State Tenement House Law 1901
outlawed dumbbell tenements - Lawrence Veiller
Net land area
Gross net area
Entire site- minus undevelopable land
Everything
Ebeneezer Howard wrote __
“Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform”
Ian McHarg wrote ____
Design with Nature
Edward Bellamy wrote ____
Looking backward (about utopia)
Hoshin Planning
7 step strategic planning process
What is the name given to those born between 1965 and 1980?
Gen X
Indian Reorganization Act
still used to today, gives tribes their own powers, constitution etc (1934)
Baby boomers
After WW2, 1946-1964
Robert Weaver
HUD’s first secretary
Home are now x% bigger
50%!
How many commercial cell towers?
100k
James Rouse
designed Columbia Maryland successful town after WW2
Council of Government movement began in
Detroit
UDAG
Urban development action grant complements CDBG
normal distribution peak is mean, median, and mode
oops
Cash Out Free Parking
A program offering commuters the cash equivalent of subsidized parking provided they use another means of transportation.
LA County 1922
First regional planning commission
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.
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
Listening to the City
A New York public meeting in 2002 with about 5000 New Yorkers
Green power
electricity produced by sources that are less harmful to the environment than fossil fuels
North Dakota has
slowest population gain dun dun
Strategic plans are
focused, address resources, and are usually open in their creation
TIP
Transportation Improvement Program
Ambient
term related to air and water pollution
Gen X
1965-1980
Consistency Requirement
rezonings match comprehensive plan, text and map conformance standards
Groundwater
the supply of freshwater under the earth’s surface in an aquifer or soil that forms the natural reservoir
MBO
Management by Objectives Peter Drucker
Township square
36 square miles